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Re: Hilarious moments when you're spotted?
< Reply # 20 on 11/22/2012 3:33 AM >
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I was trying to explore a long abandoned farmhouse (with my car parked on the dirt road about 1/4 mile away)... this old guy came screaming down in his Crown Vic, and starts screaming at me that he'll have my car towed if I'm planning on checking out that abandoned house. I asked if the house was his and he said he had no idea who owned it, and I asked if the road was his... which, oddly enough, being a public road, it wasn't.

After telling him I'd have him charged with theft if he had my car towed from a public place, he calmed down.

Also got "caught" at an abandoned convent in Toronto (after repeatedly saying "I smell something cooking) by a homeless guy grilling up some burgers on a propane BBQ in the courtyard. He even offered me lunch!

The final one was randomly bumping into a long time "resident" at a popular Toronto location (after noticing a ton of cats, with fresh food in front of them), asking him if he wanted us to leave, and getting a three hour guided tour of the location and a great exhibit of the resident's collection of scrounged items... a very cool experience!







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< Reply # 21 on 11/22/2012 5:29 PM >
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The final one was randomly bumping into a long time "resident" at a popular Toronto location (after noticing a ton of cats, with fresh food in front of them), asking him if he wanted us to leave, and getting a three hour guided tour of the location and a great exhibit of the resident's collection of scrounged items... a very cool experience!






Three hours? Wow, he must have gone over every section he had there. Did he even show you the porn?




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Re: Hilarious moments when you're spotted?
< Reply # 22 on 11/27/2012 8:30 PM >
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A few months ago I took a few aerialist friends of mine to a local abandoned nuclear power station, and the property owners ended up walking in on something resembling this:




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< Reply # 23 on 11/27/2012 11:58 PM >
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A few months ago I took a few aerialist friends of mine to a local abandoned nuclear power station, and the property owners ended up walking in on something resembling this:
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< Reply # 24 on 11/28/2012 1:03 AM >
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< Reply # 25 on 11/28/2012 3:27 PM >
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I was right behind Greg, and heard him when he gasped; "oh shit!"



Lolz!


I've had a few good ones...

-Came out of a manhole once, and was standing next to it trying to figure out where I was, when a security guard from a neighboring building walked up. He asked what I was doing and I'm like "Oh, just exploring the sewer, I'm not robbing your building or anything. What street is this?" He told me what street it was and I thanked him, went back down, and shut the lid.

-On another occasion I had my head and shoulders out of a manhole in a parking lot, trying to acquire a GPS signal. A woman turns the corner to get in her car and spots me next to it. She yelled "You scared the shit out of me!" I asked her "Hey, are we in <city 10 miles away> yet?" and the rest of the group in the shaft below me bursts out laughing.

-Came out of a drain on the river and a guy fishing from a boat spots us. He drives over and yells "Did you just come out of that culvert?" Like a smartass I reply "Maaaaybe". He proceeds to tail us from the river as we walk back along the shore, calling the cops on his cell phone (we managed to evade them).

-A hobo downtown approached us while we were popping manholes looking for a tunnel. He introduced himself as Willie Nelson (and showed us an ID backing it up!). We told him we lived in the sewer and all we had was sewer money, and he left

-And of course there's the usual cop encounters where the first thing you're asked is "Are you guys Action Squad?". One time the cops caught us on the way into a cave party where we were carrying amps, instruments, projector screens, beer, tuxedos, etc. After asking if we were in Action Squad and running our IDs, they were like "Well, we got a call about teenagers bringing booze underground, but you look like you know what you're doing. Are those caves pretty cool?" (we ended up relocating the party).







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< Reply # 26 on 11/28/2012 4:19 PM >
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Sewer money!




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< Reply # 27 on 11/28/2012 9:28 PM >
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These are gold. I never actually thought of how much fun it could be getting caught coming out of the sewers. I can't wait to get out exploring more often, heheh




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< Reply # 28 on 11/30/2012 5:32 PM >
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I was at a popular location here doing a nude shoot. I was wearing my panties only. and a guy walked out and was like, "hey, whatsup?" and we chatted for a bit. Then these two college kid looking guys walked up and were like "whoa". So one pulled out his phone and goes "Give me your best pose" and takes a photo with his phone, boobs all out there and everything. lol

He walked away saying "I am going to tell everyone I found a naked ghost!"






EDIT: Original comment of "need photos or it didn't happen" is retracted because I didn't notice that said poster's profile indicates male...check first, comment later, check first, comment later, check first....

Edit AGAIN;
wait a sec...you cant be a dude if you have boobs!! My head is spinning...



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< Reply # 29 on 12/2/2012 11:48 PM >
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http://buttram.uer...otos/3233/12-1.jpg

This is actually somewhat of a true story.


The it is. One of my buddies tried that. The ticket was worth it though. Lmao




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< Reply # 30 on 12/2/2012 11:53 PM >
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I once caught a guy screwing a hooker, he heard me stopped, I crept away and he went about his business.




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< Reply # 31 on 12/4/2012 8:37 PM >
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I think this thread tells a better story with the photos than i can possibly re tell here about Greg, the Barge owner....
http://www.uer.ca/...=1&threadid=104272




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< Reply # 32 on 12/5/2012 12:08 AM >
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I think this thread tells a better story with the photos than i can possibly re tell here about Greg, the Barge owner....
http://www.uer.ca/...=1&threadid=104272


Some great shots in that thread as well. I've yet to be snuck up on, or even properly faced with anyone else while I've been out and about exploring, and I have a feeling when I am, they won't be as totally friendly as Greg, hahah




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Ha, that reminded me of another time we ran into somebody...

I think there were five of us, we had just snuck up to an old mill, located an entrance, and gotten everyone inside without being seen. As the last guy squeezed inside and stood up, all six of us were standing there about to head deeper inside... Wait a minute... six? We turn to the new guy who's just standing with our group, wearing the same kind of headlamp and generally blending in with us.

Us: "Uh... hi, are you an explorer?"
Guy: "Nope"
Us: "Are you security? Should we leave now"
Guy: "Nah, I'm just scrapping the place"
Us: "Oh, ok, do you care if we look around?"
Guy: "Go for it, I'll be over there stealing copper"





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< Reply # 34 on 12/5/2012 8:23 PM >
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Not exactly hilarious, but three of us were exploring an abandoned mine way out in the middle of nowhere. We came walking out of the mine and bumped straight into the guy putting up the 'Stay Out and Stay Alive' signs.

Turns out he was pretty cool so we each went home with a brand new Stay Out and Stay Alive sign to hang on our wall.

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Was checking out an abandoned radio tower from WWII in Japan at night. Went to leave and dived into a bush to hide from some lady walking her dog. She saw me do this too. She stood there staring at where I was sitting for a bit while her dog was freaking out before walking away. She said something in Japanese when she left. My Japanese isn't too good but I heard the words 'crazy' and 'foreigner'




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This summer, Thief and our friend Squeem and I were trekkin' through the wilds of corn-infested Nebraska looking for abandonments and Other Weird Shit. We'd just finished taking a bunch of pictures of an old church and schoolhouse a hair west of Lincoln that I think are fairly well known (my reading indicates that the buildings were moved to the edge of that field as a roadside attraction, but I could be wrong about that. Mah research skillz, let me so you them! /lazy hands)

Small aside here. I'd driven the car in a ways and parked (there was an old lot there from what the property used to be), and we traipsed around in the field for a while, took a bunch of pictures, wandered the rest of the property, and were thinking about coming back to do some in-character photoshoot stuff for another project. But when we went to leave someone had tied the rope across the entry behind us? It was very strange. Nobody came looking for us, and if you'd have walked back there you could have heard us easily if not seen us and told us to leave, and I can't imagine that whoever did that did NOT see my car there cause it wasn't real hidden, but whatevs. We re-tied it when we left and didn't end up making it back before the light died. /boring story

ANYWAY so my car starts making a weird noise and we duck off the highway at the next exit to make sure I haven't lost a tire or the engine or something (we hadn't). Right off the exit, we look over and there's a big sign that says A DREAM DIED HERE with what looked like crappy buildings behind it. Needless to say, the three of us sang a unison WHAAAAAT, checked out the car at the Sinclair right there, and got out to walk up the shoulder and figure out WTF that shit was. So we're gawking from the side of the road at this... really odd looking collection of weird ramshackle old buildings when this old man comes out of the very functional and obviously inhabited modern house on the other side of the drive-way (which is what stopped us just marching in there). My intrepid self, after some less-than-intrepid waffling because as stated elsewhere at least once on this forum I don't really like people very much, marches up and asks him what all that over there is.

He in turn gives us a length tour of this... weird little historical re-creation of things that he built over the years with his grand kids, including a mud house that he said was built with traditional Native American methods from the area (I have no idea how accurate this is, but it was super neat, and a good 15-20 degrees cooler than the July heat outside!! This summer was DUMB in the midwest!). He had a chuckle about how it took a group of natives travelling in the area maybe a week or two tops to put one of these things together and it took him and his sproglets 6 months or something. I guess kids from the town used to come out all the time, do graduation photos there, and he was happy to teach them about the history, which seemed to be his entire purpose in having put this together. To preserve some of the local stories and background.

He also showed us his garage full of milk mustache pictures because evidently he was in one of those 'got milk' ads back in the day a while.

The sign was a ways off from the other stuff, and he didn't specifically point it out, and we didn't end up asking him about it. So I have no idea if it was part of it, or a statement to passers-by; I did get the feeling that he might have been starting to feel edged out, because he did say we were lucky to have stopped when we did because 'in a few years it might all be gone', what with people wanting to develop and such.




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< Reply # 37 on 12/16/2012 8:55 PM >
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He walked away saying "I am going to tell everyone I found a naked ghost!"


Good times, eh?

I've been 'caught' periodically. I suppose I can't help but go in the wrong order.

With DJCraig, my girlfriend, and two other UER regulars we encountered eight sketchy folk from out-of-state. Specifically, we had spread across a mill building. I was about to head upstairs away from my girlfriend and saw several people in the next room. Whenever you meet people, it's good to 'win' that first encounter and make sure they will treat you right (No muggings, no calling cops). So I turn off my light and walk towards them. Camera and tripod slung across my chest, I come out of a dim doorway and say "Hi, I'm Kris. What's up?" They were there to tag shit, but at least they didn't mess with us...until they decided that we must have locked their car inside the front gate.

Emerging from a campus drain manhole with about half a dozen others, I was asked, "Are you guys the ninja turtles?" by a very-stoned college kid.

"Watch out for dem crock-oh-dials," said the black man on the walking bridge outside a drain outfall.

"After you," I say, trying to urge the security guard past the stairwell window where she could see our man climbing up the outside. No dice...but it gave him time to get down his rope.

"I know you guys were up to no good, but I have nothing to charge you with. Go on home and never come back to Kenly," said the cop after interviewing all three of us (Separately and together) in a small town. Thank goodness he didn't check my other bag that had my first aid kit...and twenty feet of rope.

"Hey! What are you doing on this property? You didn't have no damn key, the gate was locked, so what the hell are you doing here? I'm gonna call the cops!" Later he called the cops because he saw us again. We regrouped using a terrible mix of fuck-what's-the-number-of-the-guy-driving-the-van and satellite maps.

"So. I guess you guys heard about this place on the internet?" --Cop at some over-traveled hospital in PA. Of note was "Well we have to take your cameras in as evidence. You can get them back in a year." Ah, jokes from cops. Much better than the alternative.

"Stand still. Put your hands out. We are going to search your pack. Which pocket is your ID in?" Apparently someone on the streets on New Year's Eve thought I was a sniper, so each police force in Raleigh sent a detachment from me. Thank goodness I didn't climb that crane, after all!

"Hey, are you cops? No? Okay." Old black scrapper.

"Shit, cops!" Guys I never saw. Sounded like they outnumbered us too.

(Shit. There's four of them and a big damn dog. What do we do? Play it cool.) "We're going to have to ask you to leave. This way please." Cossette, Box, and Aurelie were there for this especially amusing time that two contractors escorted us and Nitro off a factory.

I guess I kinda morphed into all the times I got caught. Somehow I haven't been arrested yet, just detained.




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i was in a newly emptied hospital last week, newly as in only within a week or two and some careless tradesmen allowed me to slip past and up to the upper levels to play around....

hunting for the roof i hit the top floor where old boardrooms and offices were and i suddenly hear two women talking and approaching my area so i ducked into a side room...turns out to be an air con plant which was still kicking so couldn't hear if they had left but was fairly sure they must've heard the heavy door i entered through clunk behind me...

fast forward ten minutes and i figure if they called security i'd be cut off from an escape so i step out...empty corridor....take two steps and they literally jump out from around a corner and ask "who the hell are you?" ..both in suits, one with clipboard, the other with laptop bag and spectacles hanging from the tip of her nose

"I'm a photographer documenting this site but don't worry i was planning on leaving" ..i start mapping out the best route to get out quickly....

"what department do you work for? " she turns to her companion and asks her if she had been informed another department would be on site?

capitalising on this i say

"well the important thing is my office will contact you before the photos are published and you will have right of reply to the findings of my inspection...until then expect to hear from my office shortly and we can discuss things further then"

she turns to her friend and says "great now the site is being audited and they don't have the decency to inform us first, bloody typical!" and they turn and walk away

i bid them a good day and casually walked into the fire escape...

another win for social engineering 101....if you act like you are supposed to be there you probably are.







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Right before being 'caught' at a hospital, we knew security was driving around and went to leave. On the way out we saw about 5 guys all walking towards the hospital down the main road the cop drove in on. I said what's up and told them the cop was driving around a good bit, they said thanks for warning them proceeded towards the hospital. While the cop was telling us we need to leave after missing them by a few seconds, I see one kid from the group who was shirtless for whatever reason looking to find a way in. We were asked to leave and for all I know the cop turned around after that and busted all of them. I should've told him they were there, he might have let me walk around for a bit longer. I really wasn't worried about the cop, I was confident he'd just tell us to leave. We could have snuck out of there but I didn't wanna look even more suspicious and get arrested.



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