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PorkRenegade
  
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< on 8/9/2012 11:29 AM >
|  | | | Reverse engineer if you will, what exactly went down here? do tell.
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Steed
      
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Gender: Male
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| |  | Re: Please deconstruct.
<Reply # 1 on 8/9/2012 11:55 AM >
| | | | What's the deal with the red streak? I can't tell if it's in the foreground or background.
Otherwise, I find crane pictures hard to critique; usually they're a lot more "I've been here" than the typical abandonment shots, and less goes into composition because you have a lot less freedom of movement up there. The picture gets a good look at the boom, as well as the surrounding buildings, and a little corner of the cab. It's not going to go up in art galleries but it still has its value.
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PorkRenegade
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<Reply # 2 on 8/9/2012 12:24 PM >
| | | | Posted by Steed
What's the deal with the red streak? I can't tell if it's in the foreground or background.
Otherwise, I find crane pictures hard to critique; usually they're a lot more "I've been here" than the typical abandonment shots, and less goes into composition because you have a lot less freedom of movement up there. The picture gets a good look at the boom, as well as the surrounding buildings, and a little corner of the cab. It's not going to go up in art galleries but it still has its value.
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Clearly the force is not with you.
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ghettokumquats
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<Reply # 4 on 9/15/2012 12:54 AM >
| | | | I'll fes up, I have no clue what went in to making this picture other than a good idea, a good camera, and a fairly long exposure time.
[last edit 9/15/2012 12:54 AM by ghettokumquats - edited 1 times]
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La Cigale
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<Reply # 6 on 10/5/2012 9:13 PM >
| | | | One can see from the reflection in the windows of the building that whatever it was fell on a trajectory. So I would assume that someone near the camera thew something. From the small side licks of lights, I think it had spray… so I'm going to guess it was a flare.
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LadySpade
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<Reply # 7 on 10/7/2012 1:46 PM >
| | | | I like it. Feels very chaotic. A+
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Ricky_from_TV
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Peterborough, Ontario
Gender: Male
I'm going to try and refuckulate it
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<Reply # 8 on 10/8/2012 8:56 PM >
| | | | I cn appreciate the coolness. But i really feel like the Red Streak is out of place. I think the photo would be better without it but if it's going to be in there i think it should be either right in the from of the right side. Or in the background on the right side.
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ahhntzville
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<Reply # 9 on 10/9/2012 1:00 AM >
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If I was going to do something that dumb risky, I'd make sure I had a much better angle to capture a photo of it. But that's a big if to begin with.
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PorkRenegade
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<Reply # 10 on 11/20/2012 1:08 AM >
| | | | My counterpart and I found ourselves atop of this crane, while digging in my bag for another beverage, my hand found itself holding not said beverage, but a marine signal flare. I pulled it out and we both chuckled, I mean haha as if right.
.. I actually had though it was a para flare, in retrospect that wouldn't have been any better, in truth probably worse. Suddenly I felt as a man possessed, as I started to set the camera my counterpart nervously chuckled, it was as if each step I took toward actually committing this act was just a further wind up.
The camera was now set, I hit the timer and watched as the little light blinked. When the timer light stopped blinking, I yanked the rip cord. The flare went off with a thunderous boom, both of us were started by this enormous report. We gazed in awe as it shot to the heavens, my stomach knotted as I realized the seriousness of what I had just done. I watched the trajectory of the flare as it went up and came down, lighting up the windows of the apartment building as it fell, relief washed over me as it missed the building. It then occurred to us almost simultaneously, oh shit...Where did it land?... We could see the illumination coming off the flare as it burned on some distant ground. Both of us felt a sudden streak of panic as we considered this. I pulled out my binos and scanned the distance. I could see it was burning somewhere in the center of a park about a block away. We both breathed a sigh of relief.
Now we decided it was time for that beverage, we cracked our cans and sat there laughing, about halfway through our drinks we heard the hiss of truck hydraulics, we looked down from our perch atop the crane, oh no...fire truck, emergency services, it would seem our hijinks had not gone unnoticed. We watched the fire truck driving towards the park, tentatively looking at each other wondering how to react, next police cars started pulling in, spot lights searching the nearby alleys.
If you have ever been atop a crane, you know there is a false sense of security you get when you make it to the top. It is as if you now own it, but the truth is, you are exposed, very exposed. We felt the net tightening in on us ,it would only be a matter of time before they triangulated our position. We had to get down and out of the area quickly. One problem we immediately noticed was a police car in the alley right by our exit/entry. We quickly and quietly made our way down the long ladder, and VERY luckily found a man door exit that did not have a two sided key lock on it. We crept out the door off the site and up the block to freedom. As we walked up the block attempting to look casual, we watched as more police cars began to flood the area, it was a Sunday night after all, around two am.
The moral of this story is this; don't for the love of god fire marine signal flares off cranes in the middle of the city, in fact don't fire off marine signal flares at all unless you are on a sinking ship. They are super loud, burn intensely, and generally scare the shit out of people.
The end.
[last edit 11/21/2012 12:35 AM by PorkRenegade - edited 6 times]
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SalamiAvenger
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<Reply # 11 on 11/20/2012 1:12 AM >
| | | | It's true, throwing one's cans over the side of the crane was really quite inconsiderate. This is but another reason I feel so bad about the cat we killed.
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Steed
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Edmonton/Seoul
Gender: Male
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| | | Re: Please deconstruct.
<Reply # 12 on 11/20/2012 1:15 AM >
| | | | Seriously, that's what happened? You set off a flare, basically a symbol for "Everybody look over at me and probably send rescuers!" and you still didn't flee immediately. I gotta say, that's pretty foolhardy.
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PorkRenegade
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<Reply # 13 on 11/20/2012 1:29 AM >
| | | | Indeed foolhardy, I thought it would make for a nice light paint of the crane, lesson learned.
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dtewsacrificial
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Gender: Male
On my way out the door.
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<Reply # 14 on 11/20/2012 1:43 AM >
| | | | Had they caught you, it is quite conceivable that you could've been charged with attempted arson, which is a class A felony.
According to California law, you could've also been charged with burglary, which is defined here as entry into an "enclosure" (I'm assuming this crane was fenced-in) to commit a felony, which would've been satisfied if they charged you with felony burglary.
Point being, even aside from doing bad shit to the name of urbex and the urbexing community... one would be a dumbass to not be an angel on their best behavior in the course of being where you're not supposed to be. That flare could've easily been the difference between tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees and 10+ years of your life.
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PorkRenegade
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<Reply # 15 on 11/20/2012 9:17 AM >
| | | | Posted by dtewsacrificial
Had they caught you, it is quite conceivable that you could've been charged with attempted arson, which is a class A felony.
According to California law, you could've also been charged with burglary, which is defined here as entry into an "enclosure" (I'm assuming this crane was fenced-in) to commit a felony, which would've been satisfied if they charged you with felony burglary.
Point being, even aside from doing bad shit to the name of urbex and the urbexing community... one would be a dumbass to not be an angel on their best behavior in the course of being where you're not supposed to be. That flare could've easily been the difference between tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees and 10+ years of your life.
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We dun goofed, had we been backtraced, consequences would nvr be the same.
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SalamiAvenger
| | Re: Please deconstruct.
<Reply # 16 on 11/20/2012 12:23 PM >
| | | | Posted by dtewsacrificial
Had they caught you, it is quite conceivable that you could've been charged with attempted arson, which is a class A felony.
According to California law, you could've also been charged with burglary, which is defined here as entry into an "enclosure" (I'm assuming this crane was fenced-in) to commit a felony, which would've been satisfied if they charged you with felony burglary.
Point being, even aside from doing bad shit to the name of urbex and the urbexing community... one would be a dumbass to not be an angel on their best behavior in the course of being where you're not supposed to be. That flare could've easily been the difference between tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees and 10+ years of your life.
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Had they caught you, it is quite conceivable that you could've been charged with attempted arson, which is a class A felony.
I don't live in the "Land of the Free", but shit doesn't work like that up here. As far as criminal charges are concerned, there's usually a modicum of common sense - in this instance, it was the aforementioned cat we (accidentally) killed. Doused in gasoline, a fluffy-pelted housecat is a force to be reckoned with, by the standards of any otherwise effective flame-retardant measure.
Placed in a dumpster and ignited by the inadvertent efforts of the numerous degenerates that invigorate this city's nightlife, it's safe to say that the authorities had bigger fish to fry. Or, at least, the cat they intended to feed said fried fish to was a lump of charcoal by the time they showed up.
According to California law, you could've also been charged with burglary, which is defined here as entry into an "enclosure" (I'm assuming this crane was fenced-in) to commit a felony, which would've been satisfied if they charged you with felony burglary.
Point being, even aside from doing bad shit to the name of urbex and the urbexing community... one would be a dumbass to not be an angel on their best behavior in the course of being where you're not supposed to be. That flare could've easily been the difference between tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees and 10+ years of your life.
I don't live in California, but that's beside the point.
That tone's a little condescending to be coming from a guy who advocates living in perpetual fear of the accusation of things he hasn't done, don't you think?
There may be (an) element(s) of satire herein.
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Steed
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Gender: Male
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| | | Re: Please deconstruct.
<Reply # 17 on 11/20/2012 3:41 PM >
| | | | So wait, you somehow killed a cat by intentionally dropping something from the crane?
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sleeperspirit
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allentown
| | Re: Please deconstruct.
<Reply # 18 on 11/20/2012 11:30 PM >
| | | | I think he lit it on fire?
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PorkRenegade
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<Reply # 19 on 11/21/2012 12:40 AM >
| | | | I can assure you it has no bases in reality, Mr. Avenger was attempting satire and humor, I really have no clue what he is trying to say either, but I can assure you that no cats were harmed in the making of this thread/photo.
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