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Zensins
  
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Sunlight on chrome, the blur of the landscape, every nerve aware.
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< on 1/10/2006 4:14 AM >
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Since telling a story like this might be in violation of the forum rules were the story true, please consider it fiction...because it is...yeah. It's just very realistic.
I was just reading a post about a guy who got nailed because he noticed an alarm on a door but thought it wasn't active. It reminded me of something about UE that I almost learned the hard way. Here's the story...
My thing is rooftopping. I've lived in several apartment buildings that were over 30 stories high, and of course I really enjoyed rooftopping them whenever I got a chance. One night I took a couple friends up. We were messing around inside of the main equipment shack that contained lots of interesting electronic equipment including a ham radio repeater, cell equipment, and paging equipment. One of my buddies found a key that looked like it might fit one of the equipment enclosure boxes and sure enough, it did. I would never even consider stealing anything off a roof. No surer way to shut down access. But I did always want to see what was inside of those locked boxes. So, I turn the key and open the door. Peeking inside, we found all kinds of neat looking stuff. After a few seconds, I noticed a small wire connected to a tiny box with small plastic "stick" in the center. The tiny metal box is attached to the enclosure door. I stare at it a second, reach out a finger and push on the stick. It compresses into the box on a spring and clicks. Releasing it, it clicks again. Hmmmmmmm... Suddenly, the lightbulb goes off in my head. IT'S AN ALARM TRIGGER, DUMMY! It was impossible to open the door without releasing the pressure holding the little stick in the box. I looked up at my buds who were still staring at the electronics (yes, we're all geeks) and said, "Look, don't freak, but we've set off an alarm." Moving quickly but calmly, we closed the door and wiped off the enclosure door handle and locked it with the key. We then put the key back where we found it (on the floor) and headed for the rooftop door. Wiped it (yes, we're paranoid) on the way out and placed a small piece of inconspicuous debris against the door on the inside. Then took the elevator from the penthouse level down to my floor and hung out for a few hours. Around 1 AM I went back up and checked the rooftop door. Sure enough, the debris had been disturbed by whoever had come to check out the alarm.
So yeah, just leave enclosures alone when rooftopping.
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Zensins
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Gender: Male
Sunlight on chrome, the blur of the landscape, every nerve aware.
| | Re: Warning
<Reply # 1 on 1/10/2006 4:17 AM >
| | | | Oh, sorry for posting not posting this to the UE Tutorials/Warnings forum. I'm brand new and just noticed it after posting.
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<Reply # 2 on 1/10/2006 4:20 AM >
| | | | Im not a moderator but nothing wrong with your thread being appropriate far as I can tell. In fact its a cool story I would have done the same thing as would many others here. Its Pandoras box man.
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Axle
 
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| | Re: Warning
<Reply # 3 on 1/10/2006 1:22 PM >
| | | | great story. I don't see anything wrong with it either. You didn't break and enter, you used a key  .
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WVaExplorer
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Gender: Male
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<Reply # 4 on 1/10/2006 1:31 PM >
| | | | Technically, it was just entering, considering that there was a key provided. But it's no big deal, no one got busted, and no one spent the night in city lodgings or anything.
All you have to do is use common sense, and constantly be on the lookout for alarms, sensors, switches, etc. Do that, and you'll be fine.
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