The original story from May 18th:

Haunting images show abandoned Hertfordshire mansion frozen in time with designer clothes hanging on rails, a half finished game of chess - and Bentley rusting in the driveway!
https://www.dailym...ondon-mansion.html

Story from May 25th:

Six people are arrested for burglary at abandoned mansion after Greek property tycoon owner did 'moonlight flit' with his family three years ago
https://www.dailym...-tycoon-owner.html


They act like their story about a huge abandoned mansion filled with expensive shit story had nothing to do with the subsequent break-in's! Can't trust the broad public with info like that.

This story has been rumbling along in the UK UE scene for over a week now, it's a total joke.

The house was splashed over all sorts of social media groups and swarmed by the typical 'exploring with' type idiots, it was then either picked up randomly or one of them sold it out to the press. Almost all of the idiots who swarmed to it, as well as the press, made it very easy to find which sealed it's fate.

The more interesting part of the story came next. There is an 'explorer' over here, the typical social media generation 'exploring with' type who went there and 'suddenly' found the house trashed. Furniture tipped over, stuff sprayed everywhere and the like. Now this girl has prior form, she claims stuff is abandoned when it isn't, she's also the most likely person responsible for some things going missing from another similar house not so long ago, which also ended in a media shitstorm and exploring clusterfuck. There are a great many people out there, me included, who believe either she had a hand in, or knows who trashed it. Simply so nobody could go and get any more photos of the place looking nice. The paint used was plastikote which comes off easy and it wasn't tagging, it wasn't typical graffiti it was just lines sprayed over things and stuff was tipped over. The cars on the drive were also untouched. There are too many coincidental circumstances that have made people think that that is what happened.

This is the third such residential property of it's type that's ended up being swamped by the 'exploring with' moron types this year, then swiftly ended up completely ruined. These cretins lack the foresight to see what they are doing, and they've spent the last week wailing online about how could this happen and it wasn't my fault and I was the first one to explore it etc. It's all bollocks.

The funniest thing was that four of the six people arrested turned up in a stolen car!

Posted by mookster The funniest thing was that four of the six people arrested turned up in a stolen car!

Reading along and thinking how this take is quite dramatic. Then comes this line!

You’re right that they don’t see the connection between themselves and these results

Posted by mookster This is the third such residential property of it's type that's ended up being swamped by the 'exploring with' moron types this year, then swiftly ended up completely ruined. These cretins lack the foresight to see what they are doing, and they've spent the last week wailing online about how could this happen and it wasn't my fault and I was the first one to explore it etc. It's all bollocks.

Absolutely incredible the dissonance with these ones.

"I'm going to show this location to literally anyone and everyone, and post about it everywhere!"
"oh no it's destroyed, how could this happen? who could've seen this coming?"

The stolen car is really the cherry on top.

Posted by xNat Absolutely incredible the dissonance with these ones. "I'm going to show this location to literally anyone and everyone, and post about it everywhere!" "oh no it's destroyed, how could this happen? who could've seen this coming?" The stolen car is really the cherry on top.

It's always someone else's fault, it's never their problem despite them making places so easy to find that a four year old could probably track them down. The trouble in the UK is these sort of social media explorers are seemingly growing in numbers too, pretty much every week there's a new idiot who's been doing it for five minutes and thinks they're the dog's bollocks. They all flock to these sort of recently vacated large residential properties because the south of the UK is awash with them in the absence of pretty much everything else and they're seen as easy pickings, for all of a week after the tourbus has left and the locations are left battered and bruised and with greatly increased security.

It's an absolute joke, most explorers over here myself included just sit back and shake our heads at these morons making it harder for everyone.

Posted by mookster It's always someone else's fault, it's never their problem despite them making places so easy to find that a four year old could probably track them down. The trouble in the UK is these sort of social media explorers are seemingly growing in numbers too, pretty much every week there's a new idiot who's been doing it for five minutes and thinks they're the dog's bollocks. They all flock to these sort of recently vacated large residential properties because the south of the UK is awash with them in the absence of pretty much everything else and they're seen as easy pickings, for all of a week after the tourbus has left and the locations are left battered and bruised and with greatly increased security. It's an absolute joke, most explorers over here myself included just sit back and shake our heads at these morons making it harder for everyone.

The same thing is happening here. First they were just swarming empty schools and churches which is fine because those aren't usually anything special. Now the same morons are ruining beautiful theaters and power plants and going on rants about how "this scene is so toxic" when they've only been a part of the community for a year or so.

Posted by EsseXploreR The same thing is happening here. First they were just swarming empty schools and churches which is fine because those aren't usually anything special. Now the same morons are ruining beautiful theaters and power plants and going on rants about how "this scene is so toxic" when they've only been a part of the community for a year or so.

A few of the youtuber retards and suchlike have found their way into a couple of the power stations here, it's funny when they proclaim it as something never before seen and omg so risky and dangerous and nobody should do it, when other more considerate explorers (such as people like yourself over there) have been plugging away at them on the quiet for years now. Then these idiots blow them up all over social media and get things made a hell of a lot more difficult.

Gotta get those "likes" I guess...

Posted by Turd Furgusen Gotta get those "likes" I guess...

That's the only thing that's important nowadays with these galaxy brains.

they've only been a part of the community for a year or so.

explorers generally don't seem to truly wisen up until around 5 years. Once a new generation comes in after them, they start to get it.

Posted by Adv.Pack explorers generally don't seem to truly wisen up until around 5 years. Once a new generation comes in after them, they start to get it.

Oh boy, am I wise now?

Posted by Aran Oh boy, am I wise now?

Yep looks like its about that time lol.

Nah I'm just talking about the people who don't get it. Of course some people are smart from the start.

Posted by Aran Oh boy, am I wise now?

You'll know when your voice changes and you start to get hair in weird places.

Posted by Adv.Pack explorers generally don't seem to truly wisen up until around 5 years. Once a new generation comes in after them, they start to get it.

I was thinking about some past explores from 3-4 years ago and realized how badly I want to go back and slap the shit out of myself for some classic blunders. I can't imagine how many past mishaps I'll wince at when thinking about past adventures in a few years.

Posted by Adv.Pack explorers generally don't seem to truly wisen up until around 5 years. Once a new generation comes in after them, they start to get it.

I was exploring when I was 8 years old. Mostly drains and abandoned buildings. I remember riding my bicycle in a disused subway tunnel when I was 12ish.

By this logic, I should be the Einstein of UE and I'm clearly not.

You're not old until you stop learning new stuff.

EDIT:

In AP's defense...

Everyone gets to be the new guy at some point.

Some people recognize they're new and play nice present themselves in good light.

Some people are douchebags on Day 1 forward.

Posted by mookster The trouble in the UK is these sort of social media explorers are seemingly growing in numbers too, pretty much every week there's a new idiot who's been doing it for five minutes and thinks they're the dog's bollocks.

Well don't you know? They're practically celebrities!

Posted by mookster A few of the youtuber retards and suchlike have found their way into a couple of the power stations here, it's funny when they proclaim it as something never before seen and omg so risky and dangerous and nobody should do it, when other more considerate explorers (such as people like yourself over there) have been plugging away at them on the quiet for years now.

Why anyone would ever want to plaster evidence all over youtube and social media is beyond me. That's just asking for trouble down the road. People've been doing power stations and other crit infra for ages, they're just smart enough to keep their mouth shut lmao