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Tanuki
 
location:
Victoria, BC
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<Reply # 20 on 11/15/2005 4:44 AM >
|  | | | I tend to get caught a lot.
I always play dumb. It's always worked so far.
Which leads me to believe that I'm exceptionally good at being dumb. Perhaps something that should go on my resume?
I just stand there politely and don't say anything except perhaps nodding in agreement or at absolute most a simple monosyllabic answer. But I generally just stare blankly at them like I was doing the most normal thing in the world and can't figure out what they could possibly want. This always seems to completely confuse them and eventually they let me go.
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Glass
      
location:
Chicago
as one does
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<Reply # 21 on 11/18/2005 6:30 PM >
| | | | My UE shirt has my college on it ;)
Ye Golden Response to Being Caught on The Job:
"I'm a photography student doing a study on local abandonments. Do you mind if I stay here long enough to take one or two photos?"
Reactions:
Brewery security finds me sitting on top of security wall:
"No it's alright. You aren't Action Squad are you?" "Who?" (smirking on the inside) *later on the guy takes me on a short tour and then gives me the brewery case file for Action Squad and his business card. I'm welcome to call him if I ever want to photograph it again!*
Farmer finds me at abandoned radar base on property he owns:
"No that's alright... I guess... checkin on the cattle..." (stares at my friend and I) "... you drove a long way... cold... checkin on cattle here..." (stares more, goes back to truck, drives back to us) "...cattle look cold... stay warm..." (drives off)
24-hour security finds me in abandoned power plant:
"Avoid the second floor, there's asbestos being torn out there... that's bad shit!"
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aplz
location:
Neo-Berlin (Kitchener)
Gender: Male
When The Detail Lost Its Freedom
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<Reply # 22 on 11/26/2005 5:08 PM >
| | | | It depends, I guess.
For me, depending on where I am, I have one main excuse. "Oh, yeh, I'm taking some photos for an album cover..sort of a dark ambient/industrial album. Yeh, I suppose I shouldn't have been in here, heh, but I was gettin 50 bucks!" etc etc. That has gotten me out of many situations as I usually explore alone with nothing but a light and a camera, and saying dark ambient/industrial leaves them clueless. Other times, though, I've ended up in the back of a car. Either way, I could care less. Getting arrested for trespassing in abandoned building isn't the end of the world.
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Persephone
Gender: Female
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<Reply # 23 on 11/26/2005 6:50 PM >
|  | | | Playing dumb also needs backup like any cover story. It probably even needs a cover story itself. If you are in what looks like climbing clothes or what looks 'suspicious' and makes you seem like you're playing dumb.. then don't do it. Always try to come up with two cover stories but use one if possible. Save the other if you think it would work better.
What I recommend is having a change of clothes. If you think you might be caught, change or have it under your exploring clothes. Like for me,  I'm a chick so I'd have some skirt and cute top and say my cat jumped in the drain or something and I went after her. I don't think in my outfit I would look like someone trying to break the law.
Or like for that S&M party thing. Like he said, have something else to suit your story.. something pretty obvious.
Persephone
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aplz
location:
Neo-Berlin (Kitchener)
Gender: Male
When The Detail Lost Its Freedom
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<Reply # 24 on 11/26/2005 6:58 PM >
| | | | Posted by Persephone
I'm a chick so I'd have some skirt and cute top
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I demand photos!
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Bry
location:
Goose Creek, SC
Gender: Male
hehe, you looked
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<Reply # 25 on 11/26/2005 8:56 PM >
| | | | recently, we talked our way out of trouble by explaining to the officer that we were lifting the manhole covers and were in them becasue i was strying to understand the local watershed for my environmental science class.
The Decoy till 11-18-2006 |
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Moe Wall
This member has been banned.
location:
saskatoon sk
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 26 on 11/28/2005 10:36 PM >
| | | | LIKE MOST PEOPLE SAY DON'T GET COUGHT its the easyest im 13 so every thing works for me like will say this flying dick or well it was a dare or some thing really easy like my ball got kicked into here i even siad that one when i was charged for tresspasing i got out of it. but the better you are at being sneeky the better you are not getting cought this well help PLAY SPLINTER CELL THAT SHIT ACTUALLY WORKS
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Seolyk
location:
Knoxville, Tennessee
Gender: Male
Pie?
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<Reply # 27 on 12/1/2005 2:43 AM >
| | | | heres an idea
1.go to site X with a friend
2.have one of you act like you do not speak english (this is easy for me, because I know three languages other than english enough to fool people). It helps if he/she knows another language so that they can say something in it... hopefully with a convincing aspect(if you are in the US I do not suggest spanish... unless you look hispanic)
3.if you get caught explain to the police have the person who 'does speak english' explain, "I'm sorry officer, but my friend cannot speak english [very well]. He/she is from [country] (I'd use Norway or Iceland... I've seriously had people ask me where Norwegian and Icelandic are spoken) and he/she wanted to take pictures of this place to show some friend when he/she gets home.
example situation
*person acting leaves building first*
Officer: "Hey! what are you doing here?"
'foreign guy': "Hva?" (what?)
Officer: "I asked you what you are doing here?"
'FG': "Jeg kan ikke snakke mye engelsk." (I can't speak much english)
*'native person' walks out giving a BIG sigh of relief*
'NP': "There you are!"
Officer: "Are you with this person?"
'NP': "I'm sorry officer, you see.. he's an exchange student from Norway and he doesn't speak english very well. He saw this building and wanted to see inside it. In Norway, no one cares about people going into abandoned buildings. I only went in to try and find him, but couldn't until now."
Chances are the officer will not know about the laws of Norway or even want to check the 'foreign guys' ID.
Worst case scenario: Cop knows [country] law/cop knows [language]/cop knows that english is taught at a young age in [country]/does not believe what you said.
This is a plan I've been wanting to try out on a random passerby... I haven't done it yet though...
Comments? flames? mocking words of how stupid this scheme is?
Those who think faith is blind are afraid of heights.
"In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, love." Count Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf "The tattoo on their back boasts 'For me to live is Christ and to die is gain.'" - The Vision, Pete Greig I'd like to thank my friend Roxanne for giving me permission to use her drawing of my character as an avi ^^ |
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FoxTwoFoxTwo
location:
Clarksville, Tennessee
Gender: Male
I'm an explorer who photographs...
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<Reply # 28 on 12/1/2005 3:39 AM >
|  | | | Thats actually really smart. Although, go with an Asian person because a) Asians rock and b) not many ppl in the US without an Asian background speak Asian languages.
That would work well for me because I live in TN and I am Chinese hahaha and i know quite a bit of Chinese.
Bringing exploration to Clarksville.
Journal: http://www.uer.ca/...id=4&catid=2000173 | RUAUER!?!?!?111ONE??QUESTIONMARK | FoxTwoFoxTwo - "I just ordered a large. I have a relatively huge head so yeah..." |
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Blake
location:
Fall River, Nova Scotia
Gender: Male
...ouch...
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<Reply # 29 on 12/9/2005 12:09 AM >
| | | | Just double checking but "Y'ai fastore eichan engilsk..." does that make any sence to you?
Edit (directed towards Seolyk)
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j0lt
location:
Kobe, Japan
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 30 on 12/9/2005 3:41 AM >
| | | | In the Vancouver area at least, if you explain what it is you're doing inside a 'no trespassing area, and why you're doing it, for the most part, you should get off with just a talking-to... Not that I'd actually know, of course. (Wraiths haven't been caught yet) :p
j0lt: Larger than life and twice as ugly! |
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shellyl
location:
Lenoir NC
Gender: Female
I have learned not sweat the petty things and not to pet the sweaty things.
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<Reply # 31 on 12/9/2005 1:07 PM >
| | | | This worked for me only because I am an older broad. I told the security guys that I was looking for my teenage daughter who was possibly in the place on a dare from her school mates. Not gonna work if you have a lot of gear in tow though. I suppose if you are younger you can can use the same line but you are looking for your kid brother or sister.
A mirage is not an optical illusion. It is a real phenomenon, and one can take photographs of it. The interpretation of the image, however, is up to the fantasy of the human mind.
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