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| | | Re: what is your "bando turned out to not be a bando" stories < Reply # 3 on 9/16/2021 12:15 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I've been to a couple hospitals that were marked "permanently closed" on (stupid lying) Google maps, only to arrive and find lights everywhere and vehicles parked in the lot. Also I once visited a clearly abandoned school...GM checked the right boxes; overgrowth, no pin, crappy looking roof, etc. On arrival I see this decaying building, untended lawn, busted windows, overgrowth. I grab my gear, do a walkaround, and just then see a couple of cars parked on the other side, with a third car pulling in...a nicely dressed couple get out (carrying a covered dish!!) and give me an odd look and a bemused hello. Potluck dinner in the local abandonment?! I've noticed this phenomenon a few times since; derelict school becomes a community center; good sized gathering of people setting up stands or having fellowship in an out of the way (usually) rotting structure, without much noticeable evidence of actual renovation. (That politely bemused look towards the innocuous explorer remains consistent, too. I actually explored part of one school last weekend where there were several cars and people on one end, but I found a PoE on the other side; though I didn't encounter anybody while I was inside.
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| Deconstrukt
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| | | Re: what is your "bando turned out to not be a bando" stories < Reply # 18 on 9/17/2021 11:48 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | A couple years ago I was walking with my wife on Mt Rožnik in Ljubljana, which is a huge city park that is quite reminiscent of Mount-Royal Park in Montreal. We stumbled upon a strongly dilapidated house that we thought was abandoned: broken windows on the second floor, leaking roof, part of the ground floor was missing floorboards, collapsed ceilings and so on, so we snuck inside and were greeted with piles of trash in each room we entered. Then we heard voices on the other side of a door. We could hear it was some TV show, which meant there was probably someone watching it on the other side. We silently retraced our steps back outside and walked around to the front of the house, only to find a very old man doing some mechanic work on his car in the driveway, while his wife was on the front porch watching him work (initially we approached the house from the back so we couldn't see them firsthand). They greeted us upon seeing us and my wife ended up chatting with the lady, that's how we found out they've been living in this house since after WWII and they only occupy half of the house (the part we didn't explore, obviously), the other half having suffered damage during the war.
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