Be alert and carry a weapon of some kind ESPECIALLY if you're going somewhere without security. If there's security, i feel like you're less likely to encounter any dangerous individuals inside. If it's completely abandoned, getting caught isn't a huge worry, so your pocket contents aren't an issue. Potentially running into nutters is.

Exploring rules to live by.

Posted by 13thmurder Be alert and carry a weapon of some kind ESPECIALLY if you're going somewhere without security. If there's security, i feel like you're less likely to encounter any dangerous individuals inside. If it's completely abandoned, getting caught isn't a huge worry, so your pocket contents aren't an issue. Potentially running into nutters is. Exploring rules to live by.

If you feel the need to be armed you shouldn't go there in the first place unless your business dictates it. A pocket knife ain't gonna cut it... minimum a fighting knife with a locking blade.

Avoid where the homeless live; that is their home.

Posted by blackhawk If you feel the need to be armed you shouldn't go there in the first place unless your business dictates it. A pocket knife ain't gonna cut it... minimum a fighting knife with a locking blade. Avoid where the homeless live; that is their home.

ASP baton and a bowie knife is my usual choice.

Wouldn't really use the knife as a weapon in most situations though, unless i were being attacked by an animal.

Posted by 13thmurder ASP baton and a bowie knife is my usual choice. Wouldn't really use the knife as a weapon in most situations though, unless i were being attacked by an animal.

How do you dismember the bodies after though?

Posted by 13thmurder ASP baton and a bowie knife is my usual choice. Wouldn't really use the knife as a weapon in most situations though, unless i were being attacked by an animal.

You'll have an interesting time sooner or latter with the cops. Better be sure that blade length is legal to carry. The baton I wouldn't even bother with.

Posted by 13thmurder ASP baton and a bowie knife is my usual choice. Wouldn't really use the knife as a weapon in most situations though, unless i were being attacked by an animal.

I agree, I feel like without experience using a knife, it's easy to have it turned against you.

Posted by OkapisRule I agree, I feel like without experience using a knife, it's easy to have it turned against you.

For animals I rather have an oak walking stick.
I guess for stabbing homeless people with multiple layers of clothing a long blade knife is best
I prefer a 3-4" blade knife that can be concealed behind your forearm.

Posted by 13thmurder Be alert and carry a weapon of some kind ESPECIALLY if you're going somewhere without security. If there's security, i feel like you're less likely to encounter any dangerous individuals inside. If it's completely abandoned, getting caught isn't a huge worry, so your pocket contents aren't an issue. Potentially running into nutters is. Exploring rules to live by.

I am so glad I live in Canada where the worst we have is hobos who'll yell at you and then apologise for it.

Posted by The Viscount Andrew Dalton I am so glad I live in Canada where the worst we have is hobos who'll yell at you and then apologise for it.

Idk, man. It only takes one crazy hobo to turn a situation upside down.

Posted by The Viscount Andrew Dalton I am so glad I live in Canada where the worst we have is hobos who'll yell at you and then apologise for it.

Yeah, you only have to worry about Greyhound bus beheaders.

Posted by 13thmurder Be alert and carry a weapon of some kind ESPECIALLY if you're going somewhere without security. If there's security, i feel like you're less likely to encounter any dangerous individuals inside. If it's completely abandoned, getting caught isn't a huge worry, so your pocket contents aren't an issue. Potentially running into nutters is. Exploring rules to live by.

this makes about zero sense...

Posted by 2Xplorations this makes about zero sense...

Buildings where you're circumventing security to get in are pretty unlikely to have anyone living in them. I mean... if they were, that's some bad security, and if you're worried about getting caught with weapons (depending on what the laws on those are around where you're exploring) it might be riskier to bring any. You're not going to have to fight a security guard if you get caught, just run.

Truly abandoned places without security, you never know what you'll find. There's no one actively keeping people out. You're also not likely to get caught in such a place, so the biggest risk isn't getting caught with weapons, it's needing them and getting caught without one. It's not just humans. The closest i've come to being attacked while exploring wasn't by i person, it was by a feral dog. I scared it off before it did, but it was being threatening. I had my bowie knife out, and if it had attacked it would have been a good thing i'd brought it, but kicking over an empty drum was all it took.

What doesn't make sense?

Hold on.. this news post is from 2010. That building is still there?

> Because if it is I hope they're not like oh sure were just going to leave a massive abandoned building with blood and torture chambers just hanging around unsupervised no big deal.

Posted by 13thmurder Buildings where you're circumventing security to get in are pretty unlikely to have anyone living in them. I mean... if they were, that's some bad security, and if you're worried about getting caught with weapons (depending on what the laws on those are around where you're exploring) it might be riskier to bring any. You're not going to have to fight a security guard if you get caught, just run. Truly abandoned places without security, you never know what you'll find. There's no one actively keeping people out. You're also not likely to get caught in such a place, so the biggest risk isn't getting caught with weapons, it's needing them and getting caught without one. It's not just humans. The closest i've come to being attacked while exploring wasn't by i person, it was by a feral dog. I scared it off before it did, but it was being threatening. I had my bowie knife out, and if it had attacked it would have been a good thing i'd brought it, but kicking over an empty drum was all it took. What doesn't make sense?

*groan* Welcome to the fucking planet...

Violent crime can and does happen anywhere.
Same goes for your next encounter with LEOs.
It's the game that moves as you play it.

Most common place you find trouble is on the street not in places where people rarely go.
Experience bears this out.
If anything I've scared a few kids out of abandoned complexes... oops.

Posted by mahal > Because if it is I hope they're not like oh sure were just going to leave a massive abandoned building with blood and torture chambers just hanging around unsupervised no big deal.

what if someone else wants to use it

Posted by Steed Yeah, you only have to worry about Greyhound bus beheaders.

Moose...

Posted by LongLegs what if someone else wants to use it

are you volunteering I need to release some anger anyway

Posted by mahal > Because if it is I hope they're not like oh sure were just going to leave a massive abandoned building with blood and torture chambers just hanging around unsupervised no big deal.

A slaughterhouse?
That really gets the PETA people going

What's with the supervised bs?
It's a crime scene or it's not.
Abandoned means just that...