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 Disgrace
  
Location: Saint John, New Brunswick
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< on 9/4/2005 7:47 PM >
|  | | | Like an unexpected lack of anything: http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3399761a10,00.html
It's like something out of a cartoon. Morbidly funny, in a way, but that's what happens when you don't keep your wits about you at all times.
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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: Very Unexpected Hazards
<Reply # 1 on 9/4/2005 9:13 PM >
| | | | That's how the engineer at Byberry (Philadelphia) died. He assumed everything was structurally sound and stepped off into thin air, to his demise. If he had been even the slightest bit cautious, he may have realized that four treadles of the stairway he was on were gone when he stepped from ABOVE them into the hole.
Be careful people!
"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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Boons
Location: Montreal
Gender: Male
| | Re: Very Unexpected Hazards
<Reply # 2 on 9/4/2005 9:22 PM >
| | | | It does sound stupid, but it's an extreme hazard. I've been in some places where, if you were in a rush, you could not notice the steps missing while going down staircases and break a tibia in the process or at least scratch it pretty bad 
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Shatter
Location: K/W Downtown
Gender: Male
'I can get in there, i just need a coke, some chewing gum and a stick of tnt...'
| | Re: Very Unexpected Hazards
<Reply # 3 on 9/5/2005 5:42 AM >
| | | | i've had a similar experience while exploring an abandoned womens college in ontario, canada.
luckily it was going down into the basement and i only fell a foot and a half. but it pays to keep an eye out. i had been marvelling at the stairwell and the old tin ceiling tiles and 'missed' the fact that a construction crew had torn up the basement floor.
sure, i can laugh about it now, but for a few seconds during the fall all i could think of was 'what the hell???' then dirt.
yeah. so now i am especially careful (and let other explorers go first.)
shatter.
member of the mecca crew.
"So is it just me, or does the current situation in the United States seem like a bad 'B' movie?" |
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Parepin
Location: Western New York
Gender: Male
MK is your new god. When will you admit it?
| |  |  | Re: Very Unexpected Hazards
<Reply # 4 on 9/5/2005 1:32 PM >
| | | | I've had the same thing happen while exploring this old Sanitorium in Central New York. I was sure that the building was whole as I had not seen any real damage on the outside. Going down a hallway, I opened a door and stepped through. luckily, the floor continued another foot or so beyonf the door, but aside from that, the room that once was was now thirty feet below me on the hillside. At that moment, I did what any man would. I peed off the end.
<reuben> somebody keeps jiggling the doorknob on my front door, then running away
<reuben> i don't know if i should call the police, or hook up some electricity to the doorknob
<cristobal> why don't you put ice on the stairs <cristobal> and heat up the door knob <cristobal> and swing paint buckets down from your two story foyer <cristobal> then a few years later, fade from the public eye..... |
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wooble
Location: Surrey, UK
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Very Unexpected Hazards
<Reply # 5 on 9/5/2005 10:08 PM >
| | | | The Millennium Mills in London have quite a few 'comedy doors' that open out into thin air with a drop of upwards of 10 storeys in places. Luckily they're all pretty obviously doors which go to the outside, so we hopefully won't be seeing any idiots taking a dive into a sea of concrete and rusty sharp bits of metal any time soon.
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Pandesic
Location: Dallas\Fortworth
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Very Unexpected Hazards
<Reply # 6 on 9/6/2005 6:30 AM >
| | | | while exploring a large haunted attraction in its off season I managed to take a spill down a 20 step case ! loads of fun let me tell ya!
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Echo
Location: Marquette, MI
Gender: Male
| | Re: Very Unexpected Hazards
<Reply # 7 on 9/6/2005 2:25 PM >
|  | | | A friend of mine use to live in a place with a door out of a second floor bedroom that use to lead to nothing but a one story drop down to a concrate stairwell below. Doors to nowhere are one of my favorite things to look out for in abandoned places.
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Crossfire
 
Location: Kay-Dub
Gender: Male
Don't call it a comeback, I've been here for years.
| |  | | | Re: Very Unexpected Hazards
<Reply # 8 on 9/6/2005 2:27 PM >
| | | | Posted by Shatter
i've had a similar experience while exploring an abandoned womens college in ontario, canada.
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Tee hee... I remember that. Why do you think I always allow you guys to go first? I'm not being polite, I'm being smart!
C.
Disgruntled. |
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Corvid
 
Location: Oxford, UK
Gender: Male
Master of Illusion!!
| | Re: Very Unexpected Hazards
<Reply # 9 on 9/6/2005 3:51 PM >
| | | | I nearly fell down a silo once. It was 1 am and we didn't have our torches on. I stepped forward and turned my torch on, to find a large hole, only a foot away. You can see one of the holes in the picture below. Exept the one I nearly fell down had the rusty grill removed.
Heres what would have met me, had I taken a couple of steps forward...
And it was my birthday too! I wouldn't have liked to die on my birthday!
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Mutt
Moderator
Location: Bunbury, Western Australia
Support your local Funeral Director ----- Drop Dead!
| | | Re: Very Unexpected Hazards
<Reply # 10 on 9/6/2005 7:51 PM >
| | | | I saw an small open attic trapdoor in a room of an very decrepit house. Upon hoisting myself up and sticking my head into the hole I was greeted by a large racoon going the other way. The physical size of the hole made for a tight fit for the racoon and my head to occupy at the same time. We both got the fright of the day there and then. No injuries, save an almost soiled pair of boxers.
All men are cremated equal. |
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Boons
Location: Montreal
Gender: Male
| | Re: Very Unexpected Hazards
<Reply # 11 on 9/6/2005 8:50 PM >
| | | | Has anybody visited the winchester Mansion in California?
If you haven't, I strongly suggest you do. Although it's a guided tour, it's well worth it.
The lady use to be so paranoid that she had a door put in, if you were hasty and went through it, you'd fall to your death inside the oven in the kitchen.
Also, staircases that lead to the celling, doorways that open up to brick walls, etc...
Very cool visit.
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obxprnstar
Location: Eastern North Catolina
Gender: Male
On zombie patrol
| |  | | Re: Very Unexpected Hazards
<Reply # 12 on 10/2/2005 11:56 PM >
| | | | Ok, riddle me this, why would you intentionally put a doorway up that leads to a several story drop?
9-11-01
WILL you forget? |
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what
Location: Texas
Gender: Male
RE - Rural Exploration
| | Re: Very Unexpected Hazards
<Reply # 13 on 10/3/2005 3:50 PM >
| | | | just last week i found a well near an abandoned house in the middle of nowhere. it was completely covered by weeds, the only thing that saved me was a three inch concrete lip that i tripped over.
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Crossfire
Location: Kay-Dub
Gender: Male
Don't call it a comeback, I've been here for years.
| | | | | Re: Very Unexpected Hazards
<Reply # 14 on 10/3/2005 5:12 PM >
| | | | Posted by Boons
Has anybody visited the winchester Mansion in California?
If you haven't, I strongly suggest you do. Although it's a guided tour, it's well worth it.
The lady use to be so paranoid that she had a door put in, if you were hasty and went through it, you'd fall to your death inside the oven in the kitchen.
Also, staircases that lead to the celling, doorways that open up to brick walls, etc...
Very cool visit.
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Isn't this the woman who kept building, and building and building until she died? I heard part of the reason was because she thought that spirits were out to get her, and if she created this crazy maze of a house, they would have problems getting to her because they would get lost.
C.
Disgruntled. |
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Endersgame
Location: Edmonton, Alberta
Gender: Male
| | Re: Very Unexpected Hazards
<Reply # 15 on 10/3/2005 5:53 PM >
| | | | This was the story as I remember it:
Her husband was the one that started Winchester Firearms. After he died, ghost visited her and told her that since they died a hammer's fall, then the sound of hammers must never stop. Hence why the construction continued for 38 years until her death. I looked for the story on the website but at first glance, I didn't see anything about the legend. I think I heard about it originally on an episode of Ripley's believe it or not when I was a kid!
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HillbillyHorus
Location: Charlottesville Virginia
Gender: Male
Im in ur government, killin ur d00dz
| | | Re: Very Unexpected Hazards
<Reply # 16 on 10/3/2005 8:28 PM >
| | | | Man, I hope my parents don't see that. At least they didn't mention Urban Exploration.
You can't fall off a mountain. |
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JustDefy
| | Re: Very Unexpected Hazards
<Reply # 17 on 10/4/2005 11:18 PM >
| | | | Posted by obxprnstar
Ok, riddle me this, why would you intentionally put a doorway up that leads to a several story drop?
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In older houses stair cases hall ways were bult a lot smaller thus not allowing furniture and other stuff to get there so they built doors so they could just pull it up.
When i worked at this Warehouse they had a few doors that opened up into nowhere, they had sings on them and one even had locked fence on the other side.
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inventor
Gender: Male
| | Re: Very Unexpected Hazards
<Reply # 18 on 10/5/2005 12:06 AM >
| | | | I had an unnerving experience yesterday. Not really a near miss, but still unnerving. I was at Ellesmere Creamery (my favourite local site) and I was in the electrical room. This is on a mezzanine floor about 12 to 15 feet above the production room floor. I went up there to look at the electricity metering system just before leaving the site, so I was in a bit of a rush. You go up this narrow staircase to get to the mezzanine, but the mezzanine has a huge doorway to the outside about 15 feet above the ground. Presumably this was to allow cranes or forklifts to put heavy equipment inside. The door has long gone, so it's just an opening. Anyway, I decided to leave and starting walking towards the exit. Only I walked quickly towards the light streaming through the huge door, rather than towards the dark, narrow staircase to the side. Fortunately I realised when I was about 20 feet away, but the moral is not to rush!
Chris
[last edit 10/5/2005 12:08 AM by inventor - edited 2 times]
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Jen X
Location: Rochester, New York
Gender: Female
Survivors will be violated.
| | | Re: Very Unexpected Hazards
<Reply # 19 on 10/5/2005 1:07 AM >
| | | | Posted by Echo
A friend of mine use to live in a place with a door out of a second floor bedroom that use to lead to nothing but a one story drop down to a concrate stairwell below. Doors to nowhere are one of my favorite things to look out for in abandoned places.
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Doors to nowhere can really ruin a person's night let me tell you! Opened a door a few nights ago thinking "hey! a door! I'll just open it and pop through to this room here..." Only thing on the other side of the door was the side of the building and a five story drop. *SPLAT* Not even a frickin' fire escape!
Grrr...
~Asylum
Malevolant entites never ask for photo ID.
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