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UER Forum > UE Main > What is your one greatest regret in urbex? (Viewed 12816 times)
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What is your one greatest regret in urbex?
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I was just curious about what is your one greatest regret in urbex? I could range from trusting the wrong people to taking the wrong POE. My personal worst regret was taking one of my school friends to a site, thinking they would honor the site for its artistic value like all of us. However, now he uses it as a site to play beer pong and smoke weed and do all kinds of crappy stuff with others. I'm never going to call the police on him, as he is my good friend but I do sincerely regret showing him the site and trusting him. Now its your guy's turn for story time




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Beer pong and weed?! WHO SAID THEY WERE ALLOWED TO HAVE FUN IN HERE??

Really, if that's your greatest regret, you need to live a little!

I guess I don't have any major regrets, but it always makes me cringe when I remember that I walked across this bridge between these grain silos. Multiple times.



As you can see it's a six story drop to concrete, and the floor is made of wood.
The worst part is that there is nothing up there except a good view and some leftovers





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For more responses, check out the thread from the last time this was discussed recently.

http://www.uer.ca/...=119943&currpage=1





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Posted by EsseXploreR
For more responses, check out the thread from the last time this was discussed recently.

http://www.uer.ca/...=119943&currpage=1



That one is boring - it's just people griping about places they missed.

The regrets on here are much more interesting.




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My biggest regret is that I didn't start mine exploring 30 years earlier. When I graduated from college and moved to Vegas, the majority of the mines were still in amazing conditions. (I know this from seeing photos of familiar mines from that time frame.)

I want a time machine!

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Not getting a digital camera until after my neighborhood's own abandoned, 25 building state insane asylum complex was demolished. One that I had been hanging out at, around and inside for well over two decades and contained buildings that were over 90 years old.




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Sorta like Radical_Ed - that I never brought a camera along when I was exploring awesome places back in the late 70s thru to the early 90s. I had no idea this was a "thing" until I found this site and joined. Now all the places I used to know are gone or restored. bleh.




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Not getting a digital camera until after my neighborhood's own abandoned, 25 building state insane asylum complex was demolished. One that I had been hanging out at, around and inside for well over two decades and contained buildings that were over 90 years old.


Don't kid yourself Ed, your disposable camera photos are classics!




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Love ya, Turd! Mad props, freak!

The good old days...





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Only recently starting to take photos of sites I visited, considering most of them are gone or in places that I don't live near anymore. That really makes me sad.




I like Urbex.
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Not getting a digital camera until after my neighborhood's own abandoned, 25 building state insane asylum complex was demolished. One that I had been hanging out at, around and inside for well over two decades and contained buildings that were over 90 years old.


SAME!!! Or only snapping some shots on the 2 last days she was standing.

Or moving to a famous town and just missing out on some great history. (Roebling Mill)

I surely have a bunch of missed opportunities and missed places. I have major regrets going out with some really selfish explorers. People you thought had the same ideals and respect for a place that you do. Only to turn around, blab the location, tag it up, burn it down. My one serious lapse in judgement. That is a huge regret of mine. I know better now and everyone I have gone out with since has been amazing!




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That I didn't know about Urbex, specifically drains, 10 years ago when I lived in Germany. Sooo many potential cool old underground places that I could have explored.

More recently not taking better care of a point and shoot digital camera when I was in sandstone mines. It is now a paperweight due to dust.




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Other than missing certain spots before demolition, probably not learning how to use my camera properly. I've missed out on plenty of possibly awesome photos due to my laziness and not taking the time to learn how to shoot properly.




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...leaving my tripod in the car because 'I won't need it'...




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the places i've never gotten to see, those i went back to after vandals had destroyed the places i loved, and seeing one literally two blocks away having car parts stolen, the building burned, the owner gaining distrust for ANYONE going there because of some shits...

There's a lot to regret, seeing how people can be, but my biggest non-regret here? Joining this site. I've met a lot of people, all very friendly. You wouldn't think urbex would be a thing, but if a man can pretend to be a purple husky on the internet then i suppose he can go ahead and sniff about a decrepid old building and take some photos too.




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Not getting a digital camera until after my neighborhood's own abandoned, 25 building state insane asylum complex was demolished. One that I had been hanging out at, around and inside for well over two decades and contained buildings that were over 90 years old.


Never making it to the place Ed is talking about despite living 20 minutes away.
Truly my biggest UE regret.




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That I didn't know about Urbex, specifically drains, 10 years ago when I lived in Germany. Sooo many potential cool old underground places that I could have explored.



That's the first regret I felt anything for in thread
Damn. You boned that proper.
Germans had kick ass, state the art bunkers*tear*




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I just remembered another..

Not fixing P.O.E.s and putting up fake cameras and signs at The Castle before it was set ablaze by a bunch of vandal kids. We had been meaning to ever since we found signs of recent break-ins, but we didn't get around to it in time. Such a beautiful building, ruined.




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I've lived in Chicago for a long time, been exploring here for a long time too. Somehow, due to where my house has been or weather, or any other excuse, I've avoided getting into the Edgewater hospital, which is such a fantastic and famous spot for anyone in the scene here.

Well, this thread is fitting, just today my lady and I biked to it, walking through and eyeing it out. As soon as we found the entry spot the port o potty behind us (I had been eyeing it, as I had to piss like a mother fucker) opened and a guard came out. Dude started telling us about some kids that were tagging it a few weeks ago and one of them somehow got too close to a transformer, or something along those lines, it blew and killed him. Poor kid, this stuff should be fun, not a death sentence.

Now there's a 24 hour guard watching the building. Soon the building will be a park and an apartment complex.




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to be honest I don't really have any. I got into this stuff back when all the cool abandoned stuff in my city was still around and got to see most or all of it, so I'd say I have more to be glad about than to regret. I suppose the only thing I almost regret is not going down to the states before the whole passport thing happened to see all the cool shit down there. I did make it down to Detroit a few times to see some stuff but there was way more there and in other cities that I wish I could have checked out.



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