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 mhester
    
Location: Hails from parts unknown
Gender: Male
 |  |  | Worst traveling buddies
< on 8/30/2013 12:21 AM >
|  | | | Not sure if this type of thread has been done, but I am bored so why not. Worst experience I have had was when I want traveling with someone curious to do so but never did before. The whole time while checking out the building all this person did was complain, and to make matters worse her friend was going around and breaking shit. Needles to say I never went with them again.
[last edit 8/30/2013 12:22 AM by mhester - edited 1 times]
Long time Urban explorer, who wants to push my love for the abandoned world into the art community. |
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relik
  
Location: 44.26126°,-88.41502° (Appleton, WI)
Gender: Male
There is no truth, Only a perspective.
| | | Re: Worst traveling buddies
<Reply # 1 on 8/30/2013 12:52 AM >
| | | | I brought this girl, who i thought i knew pretty well, to a paper factory once, and all she did was talk about how fun it would be to smash the windows and to tag the walls. I also never brought her along with me again. Kind of sad, because she's a great photographer and a pretty rad lass. Her loss.
"When it rains, just find bigger drains." |
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T0mCat
Location: Western NC
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 2 on 8/30/2013 1:21 AM >
| | | | I knew something was strange when my friend who has been exploring with me from the beginning was getting really paranoid at a location that we had visited many times. My worries were confirmed after we got onto the roof and he started doing cocaine.
My sincerest apologies for any photography sins that I may commit, but you must understand that I have no idea what I'm doing. |
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sleeperspirit
Location: allentown
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<Reply # 3 on 8/30/2013 1:39 AM >
| | | | Posted by T0mCat
I knew something was strange when my friend who has been exploring with me from the beginning was getting really paranoid at a location that we had visited many times. My worries were confirmed after we got onto the roof and he started doing cocaine.
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That's for more energy
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CatAndTie
Location: Southeastern PA
Gender: Male
LifeInDecay. com
| | | Re: Worst traveling buddies
<Reply # 4 on 8/30/2013 2:07 AM >
| | | | Posted by sleeperspirit
That's for more energy
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Lol
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." - Andre Gide |
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cavemonkey
Location: berthoud,Colorado
Gender: Male
| |  | Re: Worst traveling buddies
<Reply # 5 on 8/30/2013 2:39 AM >
| | | | Posted by T0mCat
I knew something was strange when my friend who has been exploring with me from the beginning was getting really paranoid at a location that we had visited many times. My worries were confirmed after we got onto the roof and he started doing cocaine.
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seems logical to me. Thought it was UE law that you had to get wasted on roofs?
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Radical_Ed
Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Gender: Male
"You work your life away and what do they give? You're only killing yourself to live!"
| | Re: Worst traveling buddies
<Reply # 6 on 8/30/2013 12:07 PM >
| | | | Some younger folks (late teens, early 20's) enlisted my assistance as a guide of sorts to travel through the infamous Philadelphia State Hospital. They were talking about how they were all hardcore punk types and were bad-asses and all that and I thought it would be fun, like touring versions of my younger self.
How wrong I was.
I found out when we met they were a bunch of self-righteous, straight-edge, violent assholes with ten-ton chips on their shoulders.
About 40 minutes into the adventure, I did what His Radicalness always does, popped open an ice-cold beer.
They all immediately started laying into me about drinking poison, only assholes need beer, how could I do that to myself, calling me weak and reliant on outside stimuli, all sorts of ridiculous straight-edge Fugazi bullshit.
After 10 minutes of them spitting on the floor and saying shit that was pissing me off, I excused myself to go take a piss, hit the stairs, hit the steam tunnels, came up in a building a quarter mile away and walked home to enjoy the rest of my beer. (I lived across the street from Byberry at that time).
I hope they had fun, I never heard from them again. Fucking dicks.
"Are you happy now with all the choices you've made?" "Are there times in life when you know you should've stayed?"
"Will you compromise and then realize the price is too much to pay?" "Winners and losers... which one will you be today?"
***Social Distortion*** |
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yokes
 
Location: Toronto
Gender: Male
I aim to misbehave
| | | | Re: Worst traveling buddies
<Reply # 7 on 8/30/2013 2:00 PM >
| | | | Oh man, that's hilarious, Ed.
"Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men." - Richard Nickel |
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yaggy
Location: Tunnel #8
Gender: Male
| | Re: Worst traveling buddies
<Reply # 8 on 8/30/2013 3:00 PM >
| | | | Posted by Radical_Ed
I excused myself to go take a piss, hit the stairs, hit the steam tunnels, came up in a building a quarter mile away and walked home to enjoy the rest of my beer.
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Yeah! Others would sometimes latch onto me and make me their tour guide in there and I'd pull the same stunt. We need to do another byberry class reunion.
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Tristan Brink
Location: Banks of the Miskatonic, MA
Gender: Male
Dunwich Archivist
| | Re: Worst traveling buddies
<Reply # 9 on 8/30/2013 4:02 PM >
| | | | Posted by Radical_Ed
I found out when we met they were a bunch of self-righteous, straight-edge, violent assholes with ten-ton chips on their shoulders.
About 40 minutes into the adventure, I did what His Radicalness always does, popped open an ice-cold beer.
They all immediately started laying into me about drinking poison, only assholes need beer, how could I do that to myself, calling me weak and reliant on outside stimuli, all sorts of ridiculous straight-edge Fugazi bullshit.
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Funny how the actual straightedge quote was something about "It doesn't make us better than them, just a slight advantage that we have." Not quite what the scene actually acts like, in any way.
I always wonder, with the holier-than-thou addiction that they have, how many sXe kids grow up to be xtian fundies.
The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. |
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GLP.
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Gender: Male
| | Re: Worst traveling buddies
<Reply # 10 on 8/30/2013 4:26 PM >
| | | | A few years ago i had taken a friend of mine out to an old factory and he brought along his not so intelligent roommates upon getting there things instantly went to shit everyone ignored what i had told them and scattered about the building making noise and breaking stuff and if that wasnt bad enough they started shooting fireworks off the roof and out the windows which resulted in police arriving luckily i got out before they got there but needless to say that was the last time i took those "friends" anywhere, you think you know someone until they are in an enviroment without consequence.
We are professionals pretending to be amateurs. |
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shotgun mario
Location: MSP
Gender: Male
MSP Elite™ Card-Carrying Member
| | | Re: Worst traveling buddies
<Reply # 11 on 8/30/2013 6:18 PM >
| | | | Posted by GLP.
....needless to say that was the last time i took those "friends" anywhere, you think you know someone until they are in an enviroment without consequence.
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This. One of my friends in college wanted to come with me exploring, and I kept putting him off for various reasons. One night we went out drinking, and took a walk. My 'friend' ended up kicking garbage cans everywhere, tipping a portapotty over, rolling another garbage can down a hill into traffic, and generally being a little fuck. Suffice to say, I told him I'd never take him exploring after seeing that shitshow.
If you want to protect the locations you love to explore, don't talk about them online in public!
If you want to make exploring friends, send people private messages! Meet up in real life! Get off the internet!
Don't try to have a UER e-penis! You won't impress anyone! This especially means you, Minneapolis MN newbies! |
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GLP.
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Gender: Male
| | Re: Worst traveling buddies
<Reply # 12 on 8/30/2013 6:35 PM >
| | | | Posted by shotgun mario
This. One of my friends in college wanted to come with me exploring, and I kept putting him off for various reasons. One night we went out drinking, and took a walk. My 'friend' ended up kicking garbage cans everywhere, tipping a portapotty over, rolling another garbage can down a hill into traffic, and generally being a little fuck. Suffice to say, I told him I'd never take him exploring after seeing that shitshow.
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Damn so you know the feeling guess im not the only one who's made a mistake with choosing people.
We are professionals pretending to be amateurs. |
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Vic
Location: Toronto
Gender: Male
| | Re: Worst traveling buddies
<Reply # 13 on 8/30/2013 6:35 PM >
| | | | Posted by Radical_Ed
About 40 minutes into the adventure, I did what His Radicalness always does, popped open an ice-cold beer.
They all immediately started laying into me about drinking poison, only assholes need beer, how could I do that to myself, calling me weak and reliant on outside stimuli, all sorts of ridiculous straight-edge Fugazi bullshit.
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They were just upset that you only brought *one* ice cold beer.
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Radical_Ed
Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Gender: Male
"You work your life away and what do they give? You're only killing yourself to live!"
| | Re: Worst traveling buddies
<Reply # 14 on 8/30/2013 6:43 PM >
| | | | Hahahaha, His Radicalness never brings just *one* beer anywhere! I guess drinking cranberry juice and eating soy burgers makes a man an angry dickweed. I know I'd be ready to throw down at a moment's notice if I was addicted to being a fuckface.
"Are you happy now with all the choices you've made?" "Are there times in life when you know you should've stayed?"
"Will you compromise and then realize the price is too much to pay?" "Winners and losers... which one will you be today?"
***Social Distortion*** |
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Adventure Crime
Location: Cleveland
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Worst traveling buddies
<Reply # 15 on 8/30/2013 6:51 PM >
| | | | Posted by Radical_Ed
Some younger folks (late teens, early 20's) enlisted my assistance as a guide of sorts to travel through the infamous Philadelphia State Hospital. They were talking about how they were all hardcore punk types and were bad-asses and all that and I thought it would be fun, like touring versions of my younger self.
How wrong I was.
I found out when we met they were a bunch of self-righteous, straight-edge, violent assholes with ten-ton chips on their shoulders.
About 40 minutes into the adventure, I did what His Radicalness always does, popped open an ice-cold beer.
They all immediately started laying into me about drinking poison, only assholes need beer, how could I do that to myself, calling me weak and reliant on outside stimuli, all sorts of ridiculous straight-edge Fugazi bullshit.
After 10 minutes of them spitting on the floor and saying shit that was pissing me off, I excused myself to go take a piss, hit the stairs, hit the steam tunnels, came up in a building a quarter mile away and walked home to enjoy the rest of my beer. (I lived across the street from Byberry at that time).
I hope they had fun, I never heard from them again. Fucking dicks.
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Punk rock my fuckin ass. Guess they wouldn't enjoy any NOFX or Rancid. Lol.
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Astro
 
Usually naked
Location: The Delta Quadrant
Gender: Male
Resistance is Futile
| | Re: Worst traveling buddies
<Reply # 16 on 8/30/2013 8:28 PM >
| | | | I think I am fortunate, I don't recall ever going exploring with people who were ever just completely and utterly destructive. But once there was this guy in my class who wanted to go exploring, so I was like...fuckit (I am at a very small number of locals who explore anyways, I figured it couldn't hurt).
I decided to take him and another local explorer. We went to a hospital that was fairly low risk at the time and was no problem ever getting in or out. This day was no different at all. We get in and start walking, I knew where I was because this is one of those few locations that I had visited so many times that I probably knew its layout better than the people who once worked there. I wanted to take some photos of the morgue that I hadn't gotten before. As soon as we started walking I hear this guy saying "Yo, this place is mad scary", "Why ain't you scared?", "This stuff don't make you believe in ghosts n' shit?".
I mostly ignored it, I just figured it was the initial shock and paranoia we all experience to some degree our first time exploring.
I get my photos and move on. we end up on the 3rd or 4th floor, and he hasn't fucking stopped. Still making comments and questions like that.
I found an area I wanted to take pics in and was like "I'll be here, walk around and check it out"
no more than like 3 minutes later, me and the other explorer (who is helping me take pics) hear "YO DAWG! WHERE ARE YOU?! THIS PLACE IS SCARY" IT'S DARK IN HERE! WHERE YOU AT??"
We just ignored him and he finally found us. But this place is a good 2 hour or so explore, more if you take pics. He said shit like that THE WHOLE TIME.
Then I seized a good moment for topless shots and was like "It's Texas, its hot, I don't want to wear a shirt".
He sees me walking around topless and was like "YO, DAWG. AINT YOU AFRAID YOU GONNA GET YO" *motions something around his chest to signify he's talking about boobs* "DIRTY OR SOMETHING?"
[02:33:56] <Valkyre> Astro your whole life is ruled by the sentence ' life is better without clothes on'
[22:16:00] <DSomms> it was normal until astro got here
Astro: Patron Saint of Drains |
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telefontubbie
Location: Latvia, Riga
Gender: Female
"No Trespassing" - It's an invitation!
| | Re: Worst traveling buddies
<Reply # 17 on 8/31/2013 12:16 AM >
| | | | haha, i can describe myself as the "worst travel buddy". There are some complaints about being loud, being late, being drunk, trying to escape place because of bad mood without warning, NOT BRINGING ALONG CAMERA (happens a lot), being completely useless describing area and so on..
But i always compensate all the bad attitude. 
Do i remember some bad experiences with others?Nope!
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Dayman
Location: Oxford, Ohio/Middletown, Ohio
Gender: Male
"Too Much, Too Soon...You're way out of tune"
| | Re: Worst traveling buddies
<Reply # 18 on 8/31/2013 3:54 AM >
| | | | Well I don't really have an array of explorations, and buddies to chose from but when I was 14 I brought my best friend who I had gone exploring with once before and it was at the building we where going to, and I also brought another friend who didn't know about UE.
Well we heard a creek and maybe a voice upstairs and they got nervous, and decided to "arm themselves" before we went up stairs. My buddy got a big chunk of broken glass and my other friend picked up a fluorescent tube light (what geniuses). They then made me go up the stairs first even though I didn't "arm myself" like they did because I'm not that stupid.
We got upstairs and scanned the whole floor. No one was there. Then we heard what sounded like a voice and they commenced to run down the stairs and out of the building and across traffic. I followed them because I did think I'm might have heard something(I can get paranoid sometimes)and I didn't want to get left behind.
My early explores aren't anything I'm proud of...
The Artisan Pizza Blood Line
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fullraph
Location: Mont Saint-Hilaire - Québec
Gender: Male
| | Re: Worst traveling buddies
<Reply # 19 on 11/5/2013 9:56 PM >
| | | | Oh I can relate to that tread! My best friend is the worst possible person to explore with! Everytime we got into abandoned buildings, he litteraly ran around the place, leaving me behind as i'm slowly wandering, taking photos and videos around the place, which is fine for me buuuuut he then get back to me, complaining about how slow I am and how he already got around 3 times. Also, when he wasn't complaining about everything, he was always saying stuff like: "Oh dude look at that gigantic window! Wouldn't it be great to throw a rock at it?" which always succeeded to piss me off lol. I now explore with friends who are much more passionate about ue lol.
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