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 Mike Dijital
          
UEDB Moderator
Location: Boston MA.
Gender: Male
UE ver. 1.0
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< on 10/8/2003 6:23 PM >
|  | | | Ok , I think I'll start a thread and see how long it can stay on topic =)
Has anyone ever gone Splorin' and left something behind.
WHat was it? Did you go back for it or was it impossible to retrieve?
My Backpacks zipper broke one time on a mission to Danvers State Hospital, I had the pack forever, and It killed me to leave it behind, but it was'nt worth fixing.
A month later I went back to the spot where i left it and it was gone
I still wonder what happened to it
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Jester
Location: Vancouver,B.C. Canada
Gender: Male
Always just out of sight...
| | | Re: Forgotten Items
<Reply # 1 on 10/8/2003 6:34 PM >
|  | | | One night mission to Riverview, Pixie lost a 2aa Maglight, and a new Red LED streamlight... we couldn't find either one...
I lost a 2aa Maglight myself on a mission in Victoria, but managed to find it again luckily.
I also lost 1 of my high capacity rechargeables for my digital cam while at the Alarmed houses, never to be found.
I think we need to tie everything to ourselves 
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. |
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MacGyver
Location: St Paul, Minnesota
Gender: Male
"Someone go find me a paperclip, a D-cell battery, and a cheese grater"
| | Re: Forgotten Items
<Reply # 2 on 10/8/2003 6:34 PM >
|  | | | Here's a story that I guess fits the topic.
I was in the process of exploring a small set of tunnels that connect four buildings together one morning instead of attending my calculus lecture. I had my tripod and lenses along as this was supposed to be a fancy photography trip instead of point, shoot, & trip on something like usual. I had all the gear (and my books) in my backpack. I entered via a basement door that I had left unloced the previous night in hopes the janitors wouldn't lock it again right away. I walked over to part of the tunnel near a different building and began to set up. Just then I decided that I could really stand to take a shit. Like pronto. I'm not sure why I didn't notice this 10 minutes earlier, but I decided I'd go use the bathroom in this building I was near. I didn't want to take my pack with me, so I left it in the tunnel leaning on a pipe and went out int the basement of this building, did my business, and headed back towards the basement. I was just coming off the stairs and about to turn towards the tunnel door when I nearly ran smack into some physical plant guys that had *just* come out of that door. I changed course at the very last second to go down the hallway the normal way, towards classrooms and offices. These guys didn't seem to catch my near-fumble, but I was nervous.
My pack and gear (much of which was expensive and/or had my ID on it) was in that tunnel. Two maintenance guys just came out of and closed that door. I just *knew* they locked my pack in there. I was plotting how I would run back over to my original entrance and pray that it was still unlocked when they rounded the bend and went upstairs, chatting to eachother. I ran back and grabbed the doorknob if the tunnel door. It was unlocked!!!! WTF is any normal janitor doing leaving a usually locked door unsecured after just discovering it unlocked. Maybe they didn't notice. Maybe they thought another of their kind had done it. Regardless, I ran to where my pack was and headed out. The door was locked by that evening. One building's tunnel door has remained unloced since I first explored the tunnels. That's the one I entered through that morning.
Overall, I freaked out that I almost lost my gear and would have had to go talk my way out of it. The even better thing in retrospect is what would have happened if I didn't have to answer mother nature and had stayed in the tunnel. Those guys might have caught me.
Like a fiend with his dope / a drunkard his wine / a man will have lust for the lure of the mine
"If you are not part of the solution, you are not dissolved in the solvent." |
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nightshadow
Location: Western PA
Gender: Male
Simpsons FTW. Anyhow...
| |  | Re: Forgotten Items
<Reply # 3 on 10/8/2003 6:35 PM >
| | | | Would CHUDs have any use for a backpack?
And don't tie things, duct tape everything to your pack. ;)
[last edit 10/8/2003 6:36 PM by nightshadow - edited 1 times]
"One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop."
"That only works in movies, you idiot." |
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Mike Dijital
UEDB Moderator
Location: Boston MA.
Gender: Male
UE ver. 1.0
| | | Re: Forgotten Items
<Reply # 4 on 10/8/2003 6:42 PM >
| | | | The last thing i lost was my pepper spray, I went t0o a gun show in New Hampshire and got an Army ammo vest and some pepperspray, When I went to metro state hospital, we usually trek through the woods to get there, well on the way out it was getting dark and the flaps on the bottom pockets of the vest closed kinda funny, and I sorta figured something would fall out, sure enough , it was my self defense, and seeing as it was pitch black out, i was'nt going to scan the mile long trail in the woods for it,
Some kids probly found it and shot each other with it thinking it was a toy or something. What a surprize they would have got
www.deggi5.com / www.mikedijital.com |
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Crossfire
Location: Kay-Dub
Gender: Male
Don't call it a comeback, I've been here for years.
| |  | | | Re: Forgotten Items
<Reply # 5 on 10/8/2003 6:47 PM >
| | | | Hmm... I think Nightshadow's post is teetering on the edge of off-topicness, but is staying close enough to count.
When I was in my mid-teens I was exploring an old boat factory near Owen Sound (now long gone (the factory, not Owen Sound)) with a couple of friends. It was near a residential area, and one of the guys I was with (who happened to be the driver) was absolutely paranoid about the locals seeing us and getting caught. Every time we went near an external wall (solid concrete, mind you) he would freak out because he was positive our whispers would heard across the street.
Anyhow, we were in the second floor offices when I had set my pack down to get a better look through a hole in the wall which led to another office. While in the other office, my paranoid friend insists that two cruisers just drove by slowly and he was leaving. I'm positive he said he had my pack. I remember it so clearly; "Crossfire, I have your backpack, let's go!"
So, we get down to the car and leave. 40 minutes later as I'm getting out of the car at home, I ask for my pack out of the trunk. He we was like "I didn't grab it." Argument ensues. Myself and my other friend returned a week later, and the pack was gone. I lost a sweatshirt, a small flashlight, about $15 and a bottle of GatoradeTM.
C.
Disgruntled. |
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Freak
Location: Usually Alaska, now MSP.
Gender: Male
Hypocrite
| | | Re: Forgotten Items
<Reply # 6 on 10/8/2003 7:26 PM >
| | | | The first time I went draining, I loaned a flashlight to my friend since he didn't have one. It was a tidal drain and we'd convinced a teacher at our high school to loan us some plastic kayaks. About halfway up the drain we stopped under a short shaft and climbed up to check out a grating and scare some kids who were playing nearby. After that we went up the rest of the way to the inlet, where my friend revealed that he'd somehow lost my flashlight and had been boating semi-blind for the last few pipe sections. I got kind of pissed off and made him follow me back down the drain with no light source of his own (it wasn't a very expensive flashlight, but I wasn't going to loan him my backup after that).
A couple years later I went back to that drain, and found my flashlight sitting on a ledge under the grating. Of course the batteries were dead by then, and I had several much better flashlights, so I left it there for the next explorer to find. I also left a "time capsule" with some drain photos on disk and maps of various UE sites around the city, but it dissapeared in a few months.
Turn off the internet and go play outside.
http://spamusement...hp/comics/view/137 |
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Krenta
Location: Saint Paul, MN
Nope, wasn't me.
| | Re: Forgotten Items
<Reply # 7 on 10/8/2003 8:38 PM >
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I sometimes set down used flashbulbs that are too hot to put away, and then can't find them again later. Did that twice in a cave last weekend. I figured that it was, OK, though; a while back someone posted the advice to "take nothing from a site which absence would lessen the experience for future explorers"; my new corrolary is "leave nothing at a site which presence would not add to the experience of future explorers". Someday, maybe, someone'll find one of the flashbulbs in that cave and go "Wow, someone was in here photographing this place in the 1950's, man". Oh, how wrong they'll be... 
Other than that, the closest I've come to losing someting is leaving stuff in the trunks of people's cars after trips...
Have Speed Graphic, Will Travel. |
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Zern
Location: Connecticut
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Forgotten Items
<Reply # 8 on 10/9/2003 12:16 AM >
| | | | So far I have been lucky and have not lost or left anything of my own behind. A couple weeks ago we were exploring this old factory that I have been through several times before. This time however, someone else had been there and left their drivers license behind. I know that drivers license was not there the others times I had been there.
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King Pie
Location: London, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Forgotten Items
<Reply # 9 on 10/9/2003 1:05 AM >
| | | | lost my maglight and a red gel while treking across a field(sliped out of my backpack) in the winter, didn't notice though till we got back to the car.. then I had to make the long walk back. Found the maglight.. but no gel. Lost my asbestos mask in parkwood recreation, we were driving off when I was like shit.. had to go crawl back in there to get it.. fun stuff.
[last edit 10/9/2003 1:13 AM by King Pie - edited 1 times]
Chained at the ankles, bound at the wrists
Stuffed into mail-sacks and tossed into drifts |
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Capone
Location: London, Ontario
Gender: Male
UEL
| | | Re: Forgotten Items
<Reply # 10 on 10/9/2003 1:07 AM >
| | | | I haven't lost anything anywhere. (Yet...).
So there I was, in this creepy old hallway... |
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NoSuchPerson
Stop, or I'll ask you again!
| | Re: Forgotten Items
<Reply # 11 on 10/9/2003 1:37 AM >
| | | | At an old factory here in Toronto, I purposely left a flashlight (that didn't work worth a damn) in a spot that would be next to impossible to find (would take you a LOT of work to get to).. Anyway, I went back 2 weeks later, the thing was gone, nowhere to be found! It was yellow plastic so I definatly would have noticed it if it just got knocked over.
Weird.
But, when I go UE, I don't bring anything that I care tooooo much about, just in case.
-Ex
Unit calling radio say again? |
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Badashel
| | Re: Forgotten Items
<Reply # 12 on 10/9/2003 2:09 AM >
| | | | Ok, first Ill tell u something kinda funny, at the time i bout had a friggin heart attack
I was exploring a huge old building, a warehouse i belive, it was around 3:00 AM and there were no signs what so ever of someone being there in a LONG time. I was in the buiding, walking around slowly, taking pictures and i thought I heard sounds, like slow walking....ur a dumbass i thought to myself, no one is here. I turned a corner, flashlight turned off and i started screaming like hell. and at the same time someone else did, and i bout shit my pants. then when i started going the other way i heard him whispering telling me to wait up, and as it turns out, he was also there exploring. so we ended up checking the place out together, and i somehow lost my entire backpack, which had quite a bit of stuff in it. lighter, matches,camera film,pack of trident gum of course, flashlight, batteries, gun(you never know)
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Split
Location: Quebec city, Canada
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Forgotten Items
<Reply # 13 on 10/9/2003 2:20 AM >
|  | | | I have never lost anything up to this point. I am careful not to lose anything but imagine how it would suck if you went into a building where there is security and you leave id behind (bus pass for example). Later a security guard comes along and finds your id. BUSTED. That would suck so much. After relflecting on this I always check my pockets before leaving a site.
http://ueq.minimanga.com exploration in the cold |
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kowalski
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<Reply # 14 on 10/9/2003 2:33 AM >
| | | | I lost a glove in the internal cable tunnels at TPCo. Had put them both in a torn cargo pocket and one of them fell out. I wasn't going to go back to look for it - the floor of the cable tunnels had a good 1-3 inches of water and mud on it, and I didn't have anywhere to put a glove that had been exposed to such a climate for at least 15 minutes.
I left the other one on a box or something in the plant's "river room" - I figured that if the one had chosen to stay at the plant, it was only fair that I allowed its partner the chance to reunite with it.
I've purposely left signs and random paraphenalia in the local steam tunnel system, but that's a different story entirely.
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Shane
Moderator
Location: Bronx, NY
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 15 on 10/9/2003 2:41 AM >
| | | | I lost my keys on a site once. I was in the county fairgrounds late at night, and we heard someone coming, so we hid underneath this overpass and then jumped into some bushes. When I got back to the car I realized that my keys were no longer in my pocket. I had to go back in there alone and retrieve them. Fortunately they were right inside that bush and not too hard to find, but on my way out, there was a helicopter with a searchlight circling the area. I'm pretty sure it wasn't because of us, but I still didn't want to get spotted by it. I don't think I've ever run so fast.
"Because there's no possibility of real disaster, real risk, we're left with no chance for real salvation. Real elation. Real excitement. Joy. Discovery. Invention. The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom. Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better." -Chuck Palahniuk |
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Kimmo
Noble Donor
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<Reply # 16 on 10/9/2003 5:07 AM >
| | | | I lost a lens shade somewhere into Osmussaar. Me being a really smart and all, I tried to find it...from a quite large island...
No I didn't succeed in finding it...
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Freak
Location: Usually Alaska, now MSP.
Gender: Male
Hypocrite
| | | Re: Forgotten Items
<Reply # 17 on 10/9/2003 9:01 AM >
| | | | Posted by Split
I have never lost anything up to this point. I am careful not to lose anything but imagine how it would suck if you went into a building where there is security and you leave id behind (bus pass for example). Later a security guard comes along and finds your id. BUSTED. That would suck so much. After relflecting on this I always check my pockets before leaving a site.
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If that happened just tell them your wallet or ID was stolen recently, it's as good an excuse as any and they can't prove you're lying.
I almost lost my police scanner once, it slipped off my belt while I was crawling through a very narrow tunnel. Fortunately the headphone jack stayed in and the tug on my ear let me know something was caught.
Turn off the internet and go play outside.
http://spamusement...hp/comics/view/137 |
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Crossfire
Location: Kay-Dub
Gender: Male
Don't call it a comeback, I've been here for years.
| | | | | Re: Forgotten Items
<Reply # 18 on 10/9/2003 10:56 AM >
| | | | I am paranoid about losing my keys/cell phone/wallet when I'm exploring. I put them in a pocket of my backpack and then remember not to open it up until I'm offsite again. I probably still check that pocket about once every 15 or 20 minutes while I'm exploring.
Fortunately (touch wood) I haven't lost anything in 15 years of exploration.
C.
Disgruntled. |
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Mr. X
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Gender: Male
| | Re: Forgotten Items
<Reply # 19 on 10/9/2003 8:42 PM >
| | | | Posted by Badashel
...so we ended up checking the place out together, and i somehow lost my entire backpack, which had quite a bit of stuff in it. lighter, matches,camera film,pack of trident gum of course, flashlight, batteries, gun(you never know)
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Foo, you keep yo strap in yo backpack? Iz you some crazy cracker kid? You gots ta keep dat shit in the back of yo waistbelt son, shiiiit dogg.
What if you actually do "need" it? Are you gonna say, "Hey wait violent life threatining guy, I need to open my backpack and grab my gun."?
If you're going to go through all risks to carry a concealed weapon, do it right.
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