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< on 3/19/2009 8:07 PM >
|  | | | Rather than posting news in seperate threads, I've chosen to use one thread 
Strange Hobbies: Urban Exploring
Andrew Massey
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Are you and your friends the types who like to check out abandoned buildings? When you see “maintenance” on a doorway, are you curious to see what is behind it? You may be surprised to know that there are many like you. In the late ’90s, a trend started up called “urban exploring.” They now have a full-blown Web site and active forums at www.urbanexplorers.net
Urban exploring is all about exploring manmade underground structures, but it has expended to abandoned building, maintenance shafts, storm water drains and more. True urban explorers simply want to get in, take some pictures, explore and get out. Some go in with equipment; some just walk in as is. (Natural cave structures do not count as urban exploring; they must be manmade.)
There are several dangers of urban exploring. One major danger is legality. Most abandoned buildings are condemned and off-limits. While many explorers will only enter such a building if there is a easy way in (some explorers will ask for permission), some will break in. However, most explorers care little about this and will justify their actions, since true explorers don’t steal or break anything; they just want some pictures.
Other dangers include, but are not limited to, asbestos, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, hostile squatters, and unsafe floors or structures. Some urban explorers will only explore maintenance areas, roofs or elevator rooms. However, this is considered trespassing and can get you in more trouble than being caught in an abandoned building.
This is very prevalent at college campuses, since the main demographic of urban explorers tends to be college-age, and where better to start exploring than an area you are at every day. Of course, this is done much to the dismay of Physical Plant workers and Campus Police. I have not seen or heard of any incidents happening at Rhode Island College.
Urbanexplorers.net lists many tips on how to do some exploring, and gives you a good deal of safety tips if you take up the hobby. They understand people do it for the thrill, but they also understand the sport is dangerous and they do not want anybody to be killed. People considering taking up this hobby should read the safety tips and be aware of the legality of their actions.
Happy exploring!
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Intrinsic
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<Reply # 1 on 3/19/2009 8:09 PM >
| | | | Records of White Terror found in abandoned building
Records of interrogations from Taiwan's notorious "White Terror" era have been discovered in an abandoned building in the suburbs of Taipei.
The Taiwan-based Apple Daily on Wednesday published photographs of Ministry of Justice documents relating to the cases of several dissidents during the country's martial law era.
A Ministry of Justice spokesman later confirmed that the building had indeed formerly been used as an interrogation center and the documents photographed were genuine.
Martial law was imposed on Taiwan by the former Nationalist (Kuomintang) government between 1949 and 1987. The height of the so-called "White Terror" period was noted for the government's imprisonment and torture of political opponents.
Among the more grisly pictures published in the Apple Daily, some showed human body parts kept in glass jars around the building. Both the newspaper and the government said however that these were from victims of homicides that were unrelated to politics.
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Intrinsic
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<Reply # 2 on 3/19/2009 8:13 PM >
| | | | Fire at Rosewood Center Guts Abandoned Building
A fire Sunday afternoon destroyed an abandoned building on the campus of the Rosewood Center in Owings Mills.
Rosewood is a state-run residential facility for people with severe developmental disabilities. The building where the fire started hasn’t been used for decades, but people who live in Owings Mills say they’re not always unoccupied.
‘All the teenagers go in there and they play,’ said Lynn Appler, who lives nearby. ‘They do what they do in there and this is how the fires get started.’
‘Teenagers go inside, they party, and I've heard that they've lit the other buildings that have burnt down in the past,’ added Owings Mills resident Joanne Knox.
A spokesman for the Baltimore County Fire Department said it would have been too dangerous to try and save the building, which was slated for demolition anyway. So crews secured the scene and allowed the building to burn. Fire crews are investigating reports that teen-agers were seen running away as the flames began to spread.
‘We have the fire investigation division on the scene in conjunction with the Baltimore County Police Department; they'll be investigating that to determine if that is the case,’ said the spokesman, Kyrle Preis.
The Rosewood Center is in the process of closing for good. It once provided permanent, round-the-clock care to more than 3,000 people with severe mental disabilities. But just over a year ago, when Governor O'Malley made the announcement that Rosewood would be closed, that number was down to 156.
They're being moved to group homes, or one of two other permanent care facilities in the state. On Sunday a man whose son has lived at Rosewood since 1962 told ABC-2 News that there's only about 40 to 50 residents remaining.
As for the fire, no one was injured -- and people who live nearby won't miss the building. ‘I think they should tear the buildings down and let it, let it go,’ Knox said.
And they hope the other old buildings on the site won't be around much longer either. ‘Get rid of them; it's safety. It's all about safety and the kids. Keeping them away,’ Appler said.
Investigators don't have any suspects in the fire.
The state has announced that it plans to move all of Rosewood's remaining residents out by this June.
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<Reply # 3 on 3/19/2009 8:17 PM >
| | | | Your last article just fucked up my day.
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Intrinsic
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<Reply # 4 on 3/19/2009 8:18 PM >
| | | | Ontario's Forgotten Landmarks: Consumers Glass
Rising above a quiet row of suburban houses like a sleeping iron giant is the derelict husk of Consumer Glass. We cautiously approached the massive premises, closed since 1997...
View remainder of article (many photos) here...
http://www.blogto....s_consumers_glass/
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<Reply # 5 on 3/20/2009 2:44 AM >
| | | | I was going to post that Rosewood article. It really pisses me off...the place had some really crazy sights. Albeit only one of the buildings was burnt down, but security is going to be so much more prevalent now. Plus I don't understand the urge of little pinks to burn something down. I have my theories though... O'Malley has been fighting real hard to get that closed... There is a lot of money in that prime real estate.
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<Reply # 6 on 3/20/2009 4:43 AM >
| | | | Wait, That Rosewood article is new?
...Wonderful.
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Intrinsic
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<Reply # 7 on 3/20/2009 10:08 AM >
| | | | Posted by Caligula
Wait, That Rosewood article is new?
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Yes, this weeks news. The bastards.
( Over 20 abandones houses along one street )
Published: March 19, 2009
The city of Hartsville, like other cities in the area, has been facing the issue of abandoned housing in city limits for a while.
Now, some residents are getting involved to try to solve the problem.
James Jeffery works as crossing guard at Washington Street Elementary School in Hartsville. Although he doesn’t live in city limits, Jeffery has worked in the Washington Street area for two years and worked in the Southside area with the state Department of Social Services.
During the past few years, Jeffery said, he has seen the problems the abandoned houses cause and how unsightly they are.
“I count almost 20 abandoned houses in the (Washington Street) area,” he said. “They have trash all over the place.”
Jeffery said most of the houses have been abandoned for a long time, and he thinks they should be torn down.
“I don’t know why someone hasn’t done something,” he said.
It appears that nothing is being done to demolish the houses or clean up the area, and, Jeffery said, as the houses continue to deteriorate and more trash accumulates, the area continues to look worse.
Ron Spears, a Lamar Street resident, had a similar complaint. Spears said there is an abandoned house across the street from his residence that he has been trying to get demolished for some time.
“I have to see this every day,” he said. “(The house) is a safety and health hazard, and we the residents of Lamar Street are tired of looking at it.”
He said he has spoken with the city inspector about the issue and has talked to members of the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC). Spears said he hasn’t seen much done about the problem, however. “It doesn’t appear anything is getting done,” he said.
Mike McConnell, building official for the City of Hartsville, said that answer to the problem is a familiar one. “The primary issue is money,” he said.
McConnell said the city passed an ordinance in 2006 that allows city officials to go through the process of condemning a building and then notify the owner that the building needs to be demolished. If the owner does not agree or cannot be found, the city can demolish the building and add the cost of the demolition to the property owner’s tax bill.
The city also received a $50,000 grant from the Byerly Foundation for the demolition of abandoned housing, McConnell said. The grant requires the city replace any money it uses so the fund can be used as a perpetual fund. For example, if the city demolishes a house and adds the cost to the tax bill, when the tax bill is paid, the money must be returned to the fund.
That’s where the problem lies, McConnell.
It costs between $5,000 and $9,000 to demolish an abandoned house, McConnell said. And in many cases, the value of the property is lower than the value of the demolition. Therefore, it is reasonable to expect the owner will not pay the bill and will let the property be auctioned. In that case, the city cannot recover the cost of the demolition. Hence, the grant money cannot be used.
The city has, McConnell said, demolished houses using funds from the grant and returned the money for all but two houses.
The city’s budget for demolishing abandoned houses is $12,000. This allowed the city to demolish two houses, according to McConnell. One of the houses was on Sixth Street, and the other was on Byrd Street. But once the funds are exhausted, officials must wait until the next year to do anymore work. McConnell said he has requested $18,000 for the upcoming fiscal year, but with cities all over South Carolina cutting their budgets, it remains to be seen whether or not the money will be there.
As for the property on Lamar Street, McConnell said he is continuing to work on the issue, but since the demolition funds have been exhausted for the year, he will have to wait.
Hartsville City Manager Dr. Jim Pennington said some of the cost of demolition isn’t recovered at all. He said if the owner of the property is an absentee owner, the city must track the owner to send him the notice of condemnation of the building. This process, Pennington said, can take years.
“We are in a state with strong property rights,” he said. “That means you’ve got to follow the letter of the law before you condemn a property, even if it looks like a major problem.”
In one case, Pennington said, the owner of the property passed away, and the property went into the estate. “It was in probate,” he said. “It took our lawyer four years before we could even send a letter to the heirs (of the estate).”
The demolition cost, the city manager said, is the only recoverable cost. The man-hours from city officials and the city attorney are not recoverable. “We’ve been doing everything we can, but the problem is money,” Pennington said. “(Abandoned housing) is something that affects us as we age. It’s not just one neighborhood. It’s happening across the city.”
Theresa Mack, president of the South Hartsville Neighborhood Association, has been fighting to have some of these houses demolished for a few years.
Mack said citizens who are tired of seeing the abandoned houses have to work to get them demolished. “Although people have concerns about things, they have to work toward the changes they want to see,” she said.
One such opportunity is the Great American Cleanup that will take place April 25. “That would be a great opportunity for them (to help),” Mack said
Source: http://www.scnow.c...doned_houses/39815
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<Reply # 8 on 3/20/2009 1:58 PM >
| | | | The whole thing with Rosewood really pisses me off. Ive only explored a few of the buildings on the site and now I'm worried i wont be able to finish exploring all of it because two assholes had to go and once again fuck the reputation of Urban Explorers. I truely hope whoever started the fire gets their houses burned to the fucking ground
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<Reply # 9 on 3/20/2009 4:52 PM >
| | | | Posted by Intrinsic
Fire at Rosewood Center Guts Abandoned Building
As for the fire, no one was injured -- and people who live nearby won't miss the building. ‘I think they should tear the buildings down and let it, let it go,’ Knox said.
And they hope the other old buildings on the site won't be around much longer either. ‘Get rid of them; it's safety. It's all about safety and the kids. Keeping them away,’ Appler said.
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God forbid they do their job as a parent. We can't have that. Lets take the easy route and blame it on the buildings, the county, the state, and anyone else we can think of. It's not our fault we can't keep our kids out of trouble.
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Intrinsic
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<Reply # 10 on 3/21/2009 12:51 AM >
| | | | Catching arsonists a priority, Cape Breton police say
Last Updated: Friday, March 20, 2009
Cape Breton Regional Police say they're making arson investigations a priority following a rash of fires in abandoned buildings.
The most recent blaze happened Wednesday night at a vacant apartment building on Bentinck Street in Sydney. No one was injured. Police have deemed that fire suspicious.
Investigators say arsonists have set fires to six abandoned buildings in the region so far this year.
Staff Sgt. Ron Donovan said the major crimes unit has taken over the investigations for all suspicious fires in the past few years, and is working closely with forensic specialists and fire officials.
"I would say it is a priority," said Donovan. "It's because of the number of fires and the potential for serious harm or loss of life."
There were 100 suspicious fires in the region last year, many at vacant buildings, according to the fire marshal's office. Officials say the fires aren't believed to be the work of one arsonist, though many were set in a similar way.
Audrey MacDonald is relieved that finding and arresting firebugs has become a police priority. She lives near the abandoned building that was destroyed in Wednesday night's fire.
"I came here from Winnipeg where arson is a terrible problem and vacant buildings are a big target there, but I had hoped I would be leaving that behind," MacDonald said.
Police are hoping to hear from any person who sees someone hanging around an abandoned building.
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<Reply # 11 on 3/21/2009 1:11 AM >
| | | | Posted by Lilardo
Albeit only one of the buildings was burnt down, but security is going to be so much more prevalent now.
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Its happened before... if there is more presence it'll last maybe a week.
Good idea for a post, let's keep this going
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Lilardo
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<Reply # 13 on 3/22/2009 4:10 PM >
| | | | It really is a shame. But, with the still operational buildings closing within the next couple of months, there will be another 2 or 3 buildings to check out. I checked out almost all of those buildings, and luckily the one they burnt down was pretty much deteriorated. It still is a load of shit that they burnt it down, but Rosewood has better buildings.
EDIT: I was thinking of the wrong building. That was a actually really cool building.
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Intrinsic
Location: Collingwood
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<Reply # 14 on 3/22/2009 4:40 PM >
| | | |  Arrowhead found inside 1911 house
Abandoned Farmhouse Lives Again
NEAR NIVERVILLE -- The sad thing about passing old abandoned farmhouses is they always look like they're waiting for their owners to return.
Enter Dave Neufeld.
Neufeld renovates the old haunts and puts people back inside them.
His current project is a two-and-a-half-storey house, built in 1911, in which he discovered an Indian arrowhead stuck so far into the wall as to be invisible. He has no idea how it got there.
The home includes a widow's walk on the roof -- a place where people today could take their morning coffee and enjoy the view, he says. He even found old Eaton's receipts inside the wall cavities, and speculates it's an old Eaton's catalogue house.
"I asked the owner what he wanted with the house. He said I couldn't take it away fast enough," recalled Neufeld.
So he had it moved about 20 kilometres to another property at a cost of $10,000.
Restoring old homes "is a spare-time project," said Neufeld, 52. "I'm a contractor and whenever I have my job done, I tinker away."
"My husband hates waste," explained wife Lori. "He can't stand the thought of these treasures in rural Manitoba coming down."
The couple lives in a 100-year-old home he restored. Another one of his projects was constructed around an old 600-square-foot farmhouse, to make it into a 3,000-square-foot ranch-style home. He plans to restore a giant hip-roofed barn he recently had moved onto his property.
But landowners should refrain from bombarding Neufeld with phone calls to cart away their falling-down buildings. It's usually cost-prohibitive to move the buildings any distance, although he wishes he could. "There are some beautiful old houses out there," Dave said.
The before-and-after on his current project, almost completed, is amazing. He has kept the old farmhouse intact but put additions on either side, plus a two-car attached garage. That has upped its size from about 2,000 square feet to 3,300.
"Today, people don't want to be in small, parlour-like rooms. They want space," Lori said.
The modernization includes all triple-pane windows, new walls and insulation.
"Nobody wants the heating bills that come with an old house," Lori said.
He is building a deck off the second floor, like the original, and a main-floor deck out front. There are also new hardwood floors throughout, and modern bathrooms.
"That lumber is better today than 100 years ago," said Dave of the original home's old Douglas fir. "Its harder and stronger. It will last 1,000 years from now." It's also knot-free and arrow-straight.
The lumber can present challenges, though. "It's pretty hard to drive a nail into. Even the power nailers have trouble going through this stuff. It's not like the spruce wood used today," said Dave.
They plan to sell the house on its current 25-acre rural residential lot overlooking Tourand Creek.
So is it an original Eaton's house? Meaning, is it one of those homes people picked out of an Eaton's catalogue, having Eaton's deliver the blueprint and materials to build it?
Probably not, says Les Henry, the Saskatchewan author of the book Catalogue Houses: Eatons' and Others. Eaton's houses typically had double windows and didn't have widow's walks.
But no one can say for sure because Eaton's always accommodated owner requests, Henry said.
The house is more than likely a turn-of-the-century four-square house: an almost square house with four rooms to a floor. "In southern Manitoba especially, there are a lot of four-squares because a lot of homes were built before Eaton's homes started (in 1910)," he said.
It's a moot point, in Henry's opinion. "What does it matter? It's a helluva fine house and he did a helluva fine job with it."
As for the century-old restored house the couple lives in, well, Lori shares that common lament among contractors' wives. She's waiting for the day her husband gets around to her list of renovations, starting with the kitchen, she said with a sigh.
Source: http://www.winnipe...ain-41647457.html1
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<Reply # 15 on 3/22/2009 7:20 PM >
| | | | An early morning fire destroyed a former school building in the Hull sector of Gatineau early Sunday.
The fire at 100 Gamelin St. was called in at 2:34 a.m. and took 21 firefighters until 6 a.m. to bring under control. The fire broke out on the third floor, and there were signs someone had broken into the vacant building, Lieut. Denis Lécuyer said in a release.
The building was owned by the city of Gatineau, but had previously been used by the Le Collège préuniversitaire Nouvelles Frontières.
No one was injured, but the building was destroyed.
Gatineau police are treating the fire as suspicious.
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Intrinsic
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<Reply # 16 on 3/25/2009 10:07 AM >
| | | | Raging fire engulfs abandoned Claremont house
PICKERING -- Intentionally or not, a person must have started a Tuesday morning fire that engulfed an abandoned house in north Pickering, says a Pickering Fire Services official.
“It was either, one, malicious, or two, accidental,” platoon chief Rick Ingram said outside of the boarded-up, abandoned house at 4320 Sideline 28, which sits on the federal airport lands.
There is no electricity service to the home and it’s vacant, so that would be the only explanation, he said, adding an example of an accident is someone smoking carelessly.
At 7:10 a.m. Tuesday, a firefighter reported the blaze to Pickering Fire Services when he spotted it on his drive to work. Crews from Pickering, Uxbridge and Stouffville worked together for an hour and 15 minutes to contain the huge blaze. Nine vehicles were on the scene -- seven from Pickering; Stouffville and Uxbridge supplied one tanker each.
No injuries were reported, but crews were looking through the refuge to ensure no one was in it, platoon chief Ingram said. And once that’s complete, the house will be demolished since it’s unsafe and beyond repair.
Deputy Chief Simon Almond said since the 1970s (when the federal government expropriated the lands for a possible airport), there have been a number of fires in abandoned homes and barns but not as many in recent years.
“We get one or two a year,” he said.
Locals were dismayed to see what was probably “someone’s dream home” in the past go up in flames. Mary Delaney, an original member of Land Over Landings (LOL), an anti-airport group, said unfortunately the news didn’t surprise her. LOL has always believed that the best security for homes is occupancy, she said, but more and more homes are boarded up and isolated as time goes on.
“We need people. We need community. We need neighbours who care about each other,” she said.
Whether it was done maliciously or accidentally, it was still vandalism, she said.
“I’m sure it was vandalism,” said Gabrielle Untermann, Claremont resident and LOL president.
“The empty houses are absolutely inviting vandalism.”
Transport Canada, in charge of the lands, has arranged regular security patrols for the abandoned homes, and some of them even have security systems. This was not one of them, although the boards blocking entry to the home are made of heavy plywood, platoon chief Ingram said.
A fire prevention officer and fire inspectors were on the scene. Costs stemming from the fire are yet to be determined.
Source: http://www.newsdur...ime/article/122387
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Intrinsic
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<Reply # 17 on 3/25/2009 10:08 AM >
| | | | Abandoned Hancock Air Base housing is an 'eyesore'
Syracuse has no funds to demolish Hancock housingWednesday, March 25, 2009 By Jon DavenportContributing writer
Dan Cavallo remembers the Hancock Air Base as a city within a city.
"It was a bustling empire really," Cavallo said. "They had everything back there. If you locked the gates you could live back there."
The troops stationed at the base lived with their families in a quaint neighborhood on the edge of the airfield known as the Hancock housing area. There was a church, a gymnasium and fields for the children to play in.
Today, that neighborhood is a ghost town. The shattered glass and fallen telephone poles that litter the streets are a testament to nearly 25 years of neglect. The businesses located along East Taft Road operate with the dilapidated structures rotting directly behind them.
"It's an eyesore," said Mary Heitkamp, owner of Hiawatha Fasteners on East Taft Road. She's disappointed that whoever owns the property has let it rot without doing anything with the structures, or the land.
So who owns the property? The owner of Hancock Airport, the city of Syracuse.
The housing complex was built in the 1950s to provide housing for the soldiers working at the Hancock Air Base.
At the height of its operations, the base had over 5,000 soldiers living there. Many of them worked in the huge concrete building known as the Semiautomatic Ground Environment System (SAGE) building, monitoring the skies for incoming Soviet missiles and bombers from the late 1950s to the early 1980s.
Most of the soldiers moved out when the base closed 25 years ago, but some military families remained until 1995, when the structures were abandoned. The city acquired the property from the Air Force for $1 in 1999.
Since then, nearly every window in the housing complex has been smashed out. Graffiti mars the outside of many of the brick structures.
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http://www.syracus...4232870.xml&coll=1
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<Reply # 18 on 3/25/2009 9:15 PM >
| | | | Posted by Intrinsic
Rather than posting news in seperate threads, I've chosen to use one thread
Strange Hobbies: Urban Exploring
Andrew Massey
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Are you and your friends the types who like to check out abandoned buildings? When you see “maintenance” on a doorway, are you curious to see what is behind it? You may be surprised to know that there are many like you. In the late ’90s, a trend started up called “urban exploring.” They now have a full-blown Web site and active forums at www.urbanexplorers.net
Urban exploring is all about exploring manmade underground structures, but it has expended to abandoned building, maintenance shafts, storm water drains and more. True urban explorers simply want to get in, take some pictures, explore and get out. Some go in with equipment; some just walk in as is. (Natural cave structures do not count as urban exploring; they must be manmade.)
There are several dangers of urban exploring. One major danger is legality. Most abandoned buildings are condemned and off-limits. While many explorers will only enter such a building if there is a easy way in (some explorers will ask for permission), some will break in. However, most explorers care little about this and will justify their actions, since true explorers don’t steal or break anything; they just want some pictures.
Other dangers include, but are not limited to, asbestos, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, hostile squatters, and unsafe floors or structures. Some urban explorers will only explore maintenance areas, roofs or elevator rooms. However, this is considered trespassing and can get you in more trouble than being caught in an abandoned building.
This is very prevalent at college campuses, since the main demographic of urban explorers tends to be college-age, and where better to start exploring than an area you are at every day. Of course, this is done much to the dismay of Physical Plant workers and Campus Police. I have not seen or heard of any incidents happening at Rhode Island College.
Urbanexplorers.net lists many tips on how to do some exploring, and gives you a good deal of safety tips if you take up the hobby. They understand people do it for the thrill, but they also understand the sport is dangerous and they do not want anybody to be killed. People considering taking up this hobby should read the safety tips and be aware of the legality of their actions.
Happy exploring!
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I can't believe this is in a college newspaper. It reads like a 5th grade book report, and the spelling and syntax errors make it a chore for a literate person to get through it.
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<Reply # 19 on 3/25/2009 9:59 PM >
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It reads like a 5th grade book report, and the spelling and syntax errors make it a chore for a literate person to get through it.
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Kind of like most people's posts on this forum.
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