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 bourbonbaby
    
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 |  |  | The shotgun goes click, click, BOOM!
< on 8/2/2009 5:38 AM >
|  | | | So a couple of us decided to take a splendid little road-trip to visit some wonderful scenic highlights of Eastern Michigan and Northern Ohio. We started the day at a delightful abandoned psychiatric hospital. Accessing the interior of the facility was not without its challenges for a gentleman such as myself who has had lifelong disagreement with gravity. It was a charming location with a few trappings of institutional psychiatry remaining. Overall a wonderful, idyllic and fascinating experience.
After a few hours of wandering the halls we left with smiles on our faces, pleasantly surprised with our little visit. We powered back a fast lunch and headed over to our second location of the day, a large, defunct steal mill.
The scale of the place was truly breathtaking, when we first caught sight of it about three blocks away, and we could have sworn it was right around the corner from us. For such a large facility, it was surprisingly challenging to get access to. We walked the length of the facility (which must have been approximately a kilometer in length). We ended up taking a rather circuitous route in order to gain access. After failing at climbing a gigantic hill of slag and not finding a near suicidal entry way, we caught sight of a couple of people down below. Security? Staff?
"FUCK WE'RE BONED!" we thought.
Of course not, it turned out to be a couple of explorers that we all know and love. (I'll leave their names out of the telling of this tale). So finally we managed to get in. The place was amazing! we wandered through one of the buildings, a magnificent industrial landscape that just blows the mind. We briefly crossed paths with the other group before they headed over into the main, MONSTROUS complex.
At that point we were on our own, but not entirely. The site seemed to be semi active with some cleanup / demo staff working adjacent to the first building we had entered. We managed to avoid crossing their path and made it safely into the titanic main part of the complex.
Once we'd entered, it was clear that this was NOT a completely derelict dust collection. In other parts of the same cluster of buildings we could hear a crew doing cleanup / dismantling work. We gingerly wandered down the length of the massive building, avoiding making too much of a ruckus.
We started getting that general sense of dread that makes you think "maaayyyyybe I should leave now" ... but hindsight is a motherfucker.
We figure, let's just check out this ONE last thing. So we left the main part of the building to check out one last structure. As we started heading back, a jeep suddenly wheeled around the corner about 100 meters in front of us and started gunning it towards us.i dove into the bushes, the rest of our party made a run back towards the main building, I got up and followed them as quickly as I could.
So did the Jeep though, he was HAULING ASS, tearing down the side of the building to chase us back into the main part of the steel plant. He was NOT fucking around, he wanted to nail us BAD. We avoided him and his search light as he zig-zagged back and forth looking for us at top speed. In our state of panic we decided to hide in a dark little utility tunnel that went underneath some of the remaining machinery.
Stay, calm, stay still, and be QUIET was our primary strategy. We were pressed up against the wall listening to the sound of the jeep above us careening back and forth trying to track us down. After about a forty five minutes of him doing frantic laps of the facility we heard the jeep come to a stop somewhere perpendicular to our location.
usually in this situation you would expect to hear the ornery screams of a security guard telling you to 'come out, you've been caught, the police are coming' or something along those lines.
No, all we heard was the tell tale "click click" of a pump action shotgun being cocked, followed by a deafening BOOM!!!
"HOLY FUCK, HE'S FIRING OFF ROUNDS?!" we looked at each other incredulously. at this point we realized that we were not dealing with your average, tubby, disgruntled security guard, we were dealing with a crazed hillbilly that was probabloy off his tits on meath, grinding his teeth and seeking BLOOD.
NOT A FUCKING SOUND! We thought.
we were four mice, pressed up against the wall, keenly tracking every noise above us. the cycle of circling jeep and deafening silence continued... for hours, then suddenly the cycle repeated itself, the jeep pulled up somewhere close to us, and the our silent stalker stepped out and began searching for us. We looked up from our vantage point below the grated steel floor, we saw a flash light pass over head.
"FUCK, HE'S CLOSE" we thought.
We pushed ourselves harder against the wall trying to make ourselves as invisible as possible, holding our breath, and trying to silence our racing heart beats. The flashlight's bean suddenly pointed downwards into our hiding place about 10 feet from where we were standing. Time stopped for us, we thought our gun wielding pursuer finally caught us. The beam of light receded, and the footsteps trailed off into the distance. We heard the footsteps trail off into the distance as he headed up a series of stairs near to us. The jeep started up again and the cycle continues. We kept timing his laps and trying to formulate our escape plan.
the jeep stopped near us again... BANG BANG!!! He fired off two more rounds in quick succession...
We proceeded to hug the wall, make no noise, and strain our ears to try to catch any sign of him
We hid and waited for darkness, all the while waiting for him to descend upon us, but he never did. He passed a few more times as we sat in the quickly darkening tunnel that we were hiding in, eventually dehydration, exhaustion, frustration, and the desperate need for a beer and a smoke supplanted our terror.
We needed to get the fuck out of here, and after four hours of cowering in a dark, dingy hole, it was time to go. We leapfrogged from building to building in the waning light trying to put as much distance as we possibly could between us and the deranged, trigger happy, mute madman that had been pursuing us for the last few hours.
As we popped over the fence, placed our gear in the trunk, lit up our smokes and gunned it for the nearest liquor store, we knew we were safe.
I can't speak for the others, but for me, unless the Times offers me a job as a war correspondent, I don't see myself hiding in a concrete bunker with camera gear trying to keep it together enough to not shit all over myself for a little while.
Although... tomorrow is another day.
Cheers! On behalf of the survivors.
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argonian
 
Location: Toronto, ON
Gender: Female
"Now with added cats!"
| | Re: The shotgun goes click, click, BOOM!
<Reply # 1 on 8/2/2009 5:52 AM >
| | | | That is crazy.
Que pasa, baby? |
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Little Miss Rubbish
Location: Long Island & Urban New York <3
Gender: Female
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<Reply # 2 on 8/2/2009 5:57 AM >
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I've only encountered the 'angry hillbilly' type once, and I slipped away before he even saw me.
If something like this happened to me I would be shitting bricks. At least it would make a wonderful story to tell!
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DJ Craig
    
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Location: Johnson City, TN
Gender: Male
Break the Silence
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<Reply # 3 on 8/2/2009 6:08 AM >
| | | | HOLY SHIT. Incredible story. I've run into some scary rednecks in my life but never that bad. Maybe you should try to report that somehow anonymously? But I guess the cops probably wouldn't be able to do anything... 
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..." -Dr. Suess |
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Quarantine
Location: Denver
Gender: Female
retired former old-school UE'er
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<Reply # 4 on 8/2/2009 7:59 AM >
| | | | DAMN. I've been in some shit in my time, but that takes the cake. Jesus. Glad y'all are okay. That security doesn't fuck about!
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octopus7
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Gender: Male
| | | Re: The shotgun goes click, click, BOOM!
<Reply # 5 on 8/2/2009 10:06 AM >
| | | | Whoa that is insane, you guys were lucky to get out in one piece. Sounded like he wanted blood.
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phrenzee
Location: Canada
Gender: Male
| | Re: The shotgun goes click, click, BOOM!
<Reply # 6 on 8/2/2009 11:21 AM >
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Nice write up!
I'm still amazed that we made it out of there without getting caught/shot.
That's one location I won't be visiting again (without a bullet-proof vest and assault rifle).
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WarBird69
Location: Eastern TN
Gender: Male
Atomic Bird of War
| | Re: The shotgun goes click, click, BOOM!
<Reply # 7 on 8/2/2009 12:15 PM >
| | | | Holy shit. I think nothing else needs to be said.
Glad y'all made it out alive.
When twilight draws near, when you are pushed to the very limits of your soul, when it seems that all you have left are the dead remnants of the fabric of your life:
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bourbonbaby
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 9 on 8/2/2009 10:54 PM >
| | | | Yeah, that first smoke and the first beer were INCREDIBLY DELICIOUS. I'm currently heading back into Toronto and am over the moon to be back in my homeland and not in an American jail... or rotting at the bottom of a deep hole in the back of a huge steel plant.
What a stupid hobby. Why couldn't I be a normal guy and be obsessed with strippers and my local sports franchises.
Oh well, I probably won't learn anything from this.
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hairmetal1990
Location: Wisconsin USA
Gender: Male
roflcopter
| | Re: The shotgun goes click, click, BOOM!
<Reply # 10 on 8/2/2009 11:29 PM >
| | | | i would've called the cops. he's got a loaded shotgun and he is ready to use it. i'd take the slap on the wrists instead a body bag anyday
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budda
Location: Cincinnati
Gender: Male
I love it when you call me Big Poppa
| | | Re: The shotgun goes click, click, BOOM!
<Reply # 12 on 8/3/2009 12:05 AM >
| | | | Jesus that's horrifying.
Incredible story!
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seicer
 
Location: New York
Gender: Male
| | | Re: The shotgun goes click, click, BOOM!
<Reply # 13 on 8/3/2009 1:57 AM >
| | | | I think I just shit a few bricks reading that.
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vapula
Location: kitchener, ontario
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 14 on 8/3/2009 2:02 AM >
| | | | holy fuck.... thats way crazier then our trip to hamilton o_o
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MsDeKay
Gender: Female
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<Reply # 15 on 8/3/2009 2:10 AM >
| | | | http://www.flickr....ulhitz/3781159188/
Sounds like it's the shooter himself commenting on Flickr; he doesn't speak, but he does type...FREAK!
But I hear trigger-happy Stevie-boy gave some other group a 4 hour tour; so he's not all psycho. At least now I know who to send my psychologist bill, along with my dry cleaning one.
****I see that the picture along with the comment has since been erased from Flickr*****
Once again, he shoots first thinks later.
[last edit 8/3/2009 2:31 AM by MsDeKay - edited 1 times]
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Sir2nv
CYA BUD!!!
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<Reply # 16 on 8/3/2009 2:12 AM >
| | | | Glad you guys and girls made it out safe!!!
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AnAppleSnail
Location: Charlotte, NC
Gender: Male
ALL the flashlights!
| | | | Re: The shotgun goes click, click, BOOM!
<Reply # 17 on 8/3/2009 2:14 AM >
| | | | I'm glad you are safe - I've heard of guards firing guns into the -air- to scare people off, or to make them quit screwing around and come out. Good thing you weren't seen though - enough hicks would be stoned too bad to hold fire.
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DevilC
Location: Washington, District of Corruption
Gender: Male
I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their views.
| | | Re: The shotgun goes click, click, BOOM!
<Reply # 18 on 8/3/2009 2:21 AM >
| | | | Guns?
Canada?
WTF?
I didn't think you guys were allowed to own such manly things up there.
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MsDeKay
Gender: Female
| | Re: The shotgun goes click, click, BOOM!
<Reply # 19 on 8/3/2009 2:25 AM >
| | | | Posted by DevilC
Guns?
Canada?
WTF?
I didn't think you guys were allowed to own such manly things up there.
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But you see, it happened in the US...
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