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First Experiences with Law Enforcement?
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I recently got busted by my local university's private security people for popping a manhole on their grounds. There were two security officers; one older ex-cop and a jittery, obviously new guy. The younger, new security officer wanted to do everything to me shy of hanging me from the gallows. Fortunately, his partner was a nice enough fellow and decided to let me off. The whole situation played off rather well, but I'm still kind of rustled from the experience. I made a resolution to not be retard and check out my surroundings more thoroughly before doing any explorations.
So how did your first LE experiences go? Any pants-shitting or gun-happy cops?




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I just run, run run run , and keep running.... Ive had ALOT of close calls, but the fastest runner always gets away... at least its been my story




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My first and only encounter happened before I even turned off the car. I smiled and waved, then drove off. He didn't even follow.




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Wow, talk about a lucky break. Were you inside the property when that happened?




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Technically I was, but I as still within 300 feet of the main road. I guess it could have looked like I was turning around or something.




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My first, and so far only, experience with law enforcement went about as well as could be expected. Once the officer discovered I wasn't a vandal/arsonist/serial killer and was only there to take pictures and look around, we had a conversation about the history of the location and I wasn't even asked to leave. Also, he was pretty amused that someone would trespass on an abandoned property with no ulterior motive and asked me to explain the concept of UE.




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Are we talking first UE related law enforcement experience? If so, then it was when I walked out of a gigantic house still under construction and there was a city officer waiting in the drive. He was nice. Just made sure I didn't vandalize anything then sent me on my way.

If not, then it was when I was 17 and was with a few 18 year olds drinking. He was a newer cop with a chip on his shoulder and after arresting my two friends came to me and said I was going to be arrested and taken to jail. I informed him I was under 18 so he could go ahead and call my mom so I could go home with my P.I. and M.I.P. tickets.

He slammed me up against his car while my hands were cuffed so I gave the ol' donkey kick toward the gonad area. Haha he whipped my ass, threw me down in a sticker patch, picked me up, slammed my ribs and face against the trunk, and tossed me in the stickers again.

After I told him to s*** my d***, he took me with my buds to the city jail. I called my mom, went home with a M.I.P., P.I., a bloody nose, a cracked rib, and an obstruction charge for the suck my deal comment.

I've been polite to cops ever since haha, they can ruin your day, or make it. Depends on you.




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I got held up at gunpoint by 8 cops. Not joking. Ended up getting a ticket for trespassing.



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I got held up at gunpoint by 8 cops. Not joking. Ended up getting a ticket for trespassing.


Context? How did you possibly end up in that situation?




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I was making a movie on an abandoned road. My friend's were dressed in camo and I was dressed in ripped up clothing. We also had backpacks. There were a total of 4 of us. We were gonna film a post-apocalyptic film up at the abandoned road because it was ideal for the setting of my story.

Well apparently, when we got out of the car, some fool saw us and thought we were terrorists or some bullshit. I, like an idiot, poored a little bit of fake blood I made onto the ground to see if it looked realistic. Well, it did...
We hiked up this abandoned road, which is a popular place for people to hike and what not. We shot a few scenes here and there. We got to one part of the road that was eroded by a landslide. There was the level that the actual road was on, and then there was a part where you could walk down and stand on parts of the road that fell, before falling of a cliff. We went down as low as we could on the cliff, and the main road was about 13 feet above us.
We were there for shooting a scene for 20 minutes or so. I turned around to see 8 shadow figures standing on top of the ridge of the upper road above us. I thought it was more idiot hikers bothering us, because I could only see the shapes of people, not the details, because the sun was shining right behind them and it was bright (obviously). I said "What do you want?" in an annoyed way. My friend's had nervous looks on their faces and I didn't know why.
One figure stepped down to a rock, where i could see is was a cop with a machine gun his hand. He said "What do you mean what?". I said "Can we help you with something?", and he replied "Drop everything you have on the ground and come up with your hands in the air."
They searched us and all our bags. They found some fireworks, a big knife, and a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire. Luckily before they searched our bags, I told them we had a prop gun with us. They had us lined up, sitting down. They were pretty chill once they found out we were just teenagers, but they were all armed to the teeth, which still was pretty scary.
The officer in charge went on to tell us that some guy called on us saying we were armed and dangerous. And then when they showed up, they saw the blood by our car and thought something was up.
They understood that we didn't mean to do any harm, but apparently the abandoned road is closed to the public. Which could've fooled me, considering everyone one and their mother hikes up there. They ticketed all of us, and everyone they saw up there, for trespassing. All laughs in the end.
I didn't have to pay the ticket because there wasn't a posted "No Trespassing" sign anywhere to be seen. Sucks for my dumbass friend's who coughed up $300 because they were too lazy to contest it in court.

Might not be your typical urban exploration encounter, but that place was an awesome place to explore. Yeah, it probably wasn't smart to go up there looking like that.

Moral of the story: Fuck the police.


What a majority of the road looks like
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The eroded section where we encountered the cops. We were below where the slide, the cops stood on the road and trail part.
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Wow, that's lucky. Did you ever finish the movie?




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Not my video but looks pretty intense.

And while exploring I have never been busted by cops... lots of close calls and lots of running and hiding.

I have been busted by owners before while rooftopping a hotel. They pretty much scolded us and told us to get lost when they saw we were just trying to take pictures.

Non exploring I've had plenty of run-ins with cops through my high school days and filmmaking (much like Phobia)... we probably looked sketchy, which caused neighbors to call us in, and the cops would come and mostly question us and let us go.




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Wow, that's lucky. Did you ever finish the movie?


Nope, just gave up on it.




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Only been busted by the police once. Was on the rooftop of an abandoned warehouse across from a hospital in broad daylight, watching them as they were responding to something else in the area. Once they were done with that they surrounded the ladder we used to get up there and just waited for us to come down, I don't even recall them yelling at us to do it. Once we did they just took our names and "trespassed" us from the place, telling us we'd be arrested if we went back. The whole thing was a pretty casual encounter and was the only interaction with the police that I've ever had while trespassing. Never gotten a ticket or been arrested, just chased off property or played games with security guards.




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casual encounter


Like the Craigslist kind? I'd like to run into those cops some day!




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My first Meet-n-Greet with the law was in a halfway demolished hotel. We tried to park in a parking lot with other cars to blend in (it was in the city). The first floor was locked up tight so we heaved each other up to the second floor and started walkin' around. About 15 minutes in we see 2 cops pull up and block the only way out of the parking lot. So we book it out the other end of the hotel and walk around the block back to the car; throwing our knives down at the adjacent abandoned gas station. We walk up to the cops and feed them some BS that they promptly spit out and we spill that we were just explorers. We hadn't taken any pictures, though. So, naturally they assume the worst. They sit us down on the curb and talk amongst themselves. Then we see a car's head lights turn on and drive toward the entrance to the parking lot, we believe they are trying to leave. The window rolls down and it's ANOTHER COP! We had parked directly in front of a bloody cop! He saw everything. So he starts asking us all the usual questions. Then my brilliant buddy pipes up and says to the cops, "I don't see why you are making such a big deal out of this. It's not like we were doing drugs or anything!" I glared at him with one of those STFU looks, trying to hide my reaction from the police. It was at that very moment that the undercover cop said the greatest words I have ever heard spoken from an officer's mouth. "Woah woah, nobody said anything about drugs. You got any on you, man? Don't be stingy! Puff-n-pass, man. Puff-n-pass." I couldn't help but laugh. We then got patted down but because we both were "upstanding citizens" and they had nothing on us but trespassing, then let us go with a warning and a note in our file. They tell us to get out of here and go home. Said they don't want to see us on the streets again tonight. We got in the car and went around the block toward the highway. We decided to stop at the gas station and grab our knives (which cost $50 a piece). As we are getting back in the car the same cruiser comes around the corner and spots us. We floor it and get on the highway and as far away from them as possible.

Needless to say I never went back to that hotel or exploring with that guy again.




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In massachusetts for the longest time insurance regulations prevented cops from entering the condemned buildings, R3d from the Survival Crackers in detroit has video of me on a roof at Danvers State Hospital telling the state cops " we're not leaving you leave! " and they f'n left...lol Red and his friends looked at me like holy shit, did that just happen, talk about feeling like a power house... things here have changed in the last ten years cops will come in with the puppies and drag your ass out, but those old days were fun....



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Never had any. knock on wood.




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"Hey, turn off the flashlight! The police is here!"
"I am the police."
"Oh..."


We were exploring an industrial laundry that was under demolition with a group of about 20.

*radios to car*
"Hey, there's a whole bunch of these guys here!"

They asked what we were doing, wrote down our names and details (and cross-checked our data from their files) and told us not to get caught again during the same night.

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So how did your first LE experiences go? Any pants-shitting or gun-happy cops?


Hi HackTheRipper & others. Lol. Reading the adventures on this thread made me dig out a write-up I made of my closest encounter of the law kind.


I'll 'cut to the chase' so to speak. At this moment I'm sitting at the front roof edge of a building that is a good six or so stories high when I have to duck after seeing two officers on the street who are craning their necks to get a better look at me. When I returned to the scaffolding I had climbed I saw it was now being guarded by another officer. So they had definitely seen me, but they hadn't figured how I had climbed to where the scaffolding began above the street...

My instinct was immediately to find an alternative way down. I went to the eastern edge of the building only to find a sheer drop of about four stories onto some kind of awning with no obvious exit point below. Already the adrenaline and other survival instincts were kicking in. I was looking at plastic piping running down the wall of the building and measuring it up in my mind, imagining sliding down it. On any other occasion I would have dismissed that as madness. But tonight, it was an option. Thankfully, I had the presence of mind to look for an alternative, safer option. I recalled that all the awnings I had crossed were linked, implying that the buildings and rooftops above them were linked too. Quite some distance back along the road walking the awnings I had passed through some scaff leading up to the roof of a building that was not my target. I knew if I could make it to that scaff, there was an alternative way down to the awnings. Not out of the heat, but at least not directly into the heat’s lap. Not daring to light up my torch again, I walked into the darkness of the rooftop in the direction I knew I needed to go. There was enough residual street light to navigate safely. I came to my second obstacle – a two story drop. Well for starters, two stories was not four. And this one had some old rusted structural metal sticking out that I could hang off, some pipes to grab a hold of, and a window ledge to stand on halfway down. This was good! The steel held my weight, allowing me to hang my full body’s length from it, the window ledge disintegrated under my feet, but my grip on the pipes steadied me and slowed my fall, and a small jump landed me safely on good corrugated roofing iron. I could now see the scaff I was heading for. Curiosity and caution sent me walking straight over to the streetside edge, where I looked down to see three police vehicles parked up, and a couple of standing officers stationed on lookout covering the front of my target building. It was at this point I truly realised the scale of the operation: at least three cars, five officers.

Getting to the scaff involved a close encounter with a gargoyle, scaling a fence into a rooftop garden, then climbing up on to the roof of a structure that felt like a regular sized suburban garage perched on top of a building. Climbing down the scaff was painfully slow progress. At every move I knew I was in plain sight of one or two officers, should they only just look around less than 90 degrees from where they were facing. Also, I had no way of knowing if any officers were still in the two closest squad cars which were parked only a few carparks away down the street. I used window sills as much as possible for cover. Right at the bottom of the scaff, a man on the street looked in my direction, and kept looking. I’m certain that our eyes met. While it is difficult to gauge the duration of a moment fueled with so much adrenaline, I looked at him long enough to register that he was Chinese, and to wonder if perhaps he knew the police were looking for somebody, but that he was not going to identify me because being Chinese he might not automatically recognise the government as the force for good and the dissident as the felon. If he had seen me he certainly didn’t let on, and he soon moved off allowing me to continue along the awnings. I wormed my way along, on my belly and on hands and knees. Progress was slow, but with each new foot separating me from them, the notion that I might be able to get out of this predicament began to feel more plausible. I continued past my original access point because my alternative exit was safely round the corner on a different street. The feeling of turning the corner and at last rising to my feet to walk the last shopfront or two was one of pure relief. I reached my exit point and rapidly lowered myself down from the awning, dropping to the pavement with a loud enough thump to turn a pedestrian around. It must have seemed to her as if I had spontaneously appeared out of thin air. I smiled and kept walking. When safely out of sight, I took off all my gear and tried to resemble a regular pedestrian. Then I headed back to retrieve my car.

I couldn’t resist a drive-by. Four officers, concealed beneath an awning, just over the street directly opposite the scaff I had climbed. Another officer on the corner watching the side of my target building. I wonder how late into the night they waited, only for me not to come down.


I was wearing a GoPro. The video is here:










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