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Digital Dante
 
location:
Louisville KY
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 140 on 3/8/2011 3:45 AM >
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Becoming complacent in a newly entered locale. 3 rooms in and we tripped a laser sensor. Alarms going off on the outside of the building for 45 seconds before our lead noticed a glowing red LED at the far end of the room. We exited back out our entry and then everyone bolted. Our camera guy "Dante" bolts up the floodwall like something out of a ninja movie and disappears into the woods along the riverbank. We lurked around the area for 10 minutes but no cops or security ever came around, which I found sorta odd considering it's a abandoned power plant that used to hold a haunted house for it's employees. Dunno if they still do or not.
Anyway we all definitely got a good run out of that.
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That was freaking amazing, lost my respirator in all that craziness!
Omg fucking pistons
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kt1111
location:
Dupage County, Illinois
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 141 on 3/8/2011 4:31 AM >
| | | | My biggest mistake was parking at the location. Before we even got out of the car, the cops showed up. At least the good news was that we didnt get out of the car, so they just took our information and told us to leave. The location was way to good to forget about... We will make a trip back there soon, and actually park a bit away and walk this time haha 
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nykon
location:
New Zealand
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 142 on 3/8/2011 4:37 AM >
| | | | The setting: abandoned mental hospital complex in a rural setting, surrounded by several large fields lined with pine forest (thick enough to pretty much obscure the hospital from the road, but there are gaps). Time is about 11pm.
Given the setting, we became a bit too comfortable with the idea that we were in the middle of nowhere and apparently unwatched. We ended up getting a bit trigger happy with the flash and headlamps, and obviously attracted enough attention to call out security. First we heard a muffled voice in the distance, so went to go outside to check it out. Then as we were nearing the exit heard a voice saying "get the fuck out of there!" and saw a torch carrying person running towards us. We did the mad dash out of the building, and ended up in the middle of a field totally disorientated and rather scared.
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AnAppleSnail
 
location:
Charlotte, NC
Gender: Male
ALL the flashlights!
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<Reply # 143 on 3/8/2011 7:28 AM >
| | | | I should write up the stories for each of these (in a few years maybe?). Until then, this is all fictional, not a stream of consciousness rant.
Friend locks keys in car parked in abandoned building. See people searching building, go back to car. Break into car, set off car alarm, get in and leave. Take fireworks/NYE pictures from top of parking garage, meet 4 cop cars on the way down from capital-police parking deck roof. Haul dog into raft since dog won't swim home, raft starts to leak. Forgot the paddle for raft, used stick for several round trips.
Hold road flare just right for the metal to drip onto my finger. Another time, leave road flare propped on tripod during photo shoot just a bit too long, melt/burn tripod. Set off butane balloon without usual setup, arm engulfed in fire. Routinely carry black tripod slung over shoulder, confuse cops across the state.
Pop manholes downtown for 2 hours, enter tunnel system, leave without taking pictures of all the fiber. Break into steam plant by coming up through a grate from a secret tunnel, sneak into another steam network. Slam manhole when leaving in a hurry due to unexpected workers, manhole is belted shut. Long storm drain crawl without water. Break into another steam plant, all 3 of us hit our heads on the same damn light fixture in the tunnels, drive home with differently-dilated eyes, a common concussion symptom.
Track down rumors of secret underground reservoir, find it does not exist underground. Climb it instead. Repeatedly infiltrate building through air vents. Take groups down through manhole near infrastructure, and out again at the same one. Go in storm drains during snowmelt. Going to Big Hole by the driveway.
Switching from one elevator car to another in the shaft while both are in operation mode. Climbing cranes drunk. Sprinting past guards with a large group to escape. Springing into briars (a lot, every summer and fall). Springing out of briars. Jumping into drains. Idly wondering why I can't get the damn shot right, slowly realize that the sewer gases are getting to me. Try to get shot right again. Hearing thunder in storm drains. Taking friend's cat on a walk in storm drain. Watching Applebee's host try to get Canadians drunk under the table.
Not attending smokestack races. Not pushing my shitty photography to make a buck for lenses. Publishing that one event at all. Stopping at Starbucks to deal with this DHS shit. Not going to the CVT when it still existed. Not starting this stuff sooner.
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ger010
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<Reply # 144 on 3/8/2011 10:13 AM >
| | | | For me a classic, after seeing some pictures of a location.
Got the last clue so I could find it.
Next saturday we jump in the car for a 2 and a half hour drive.
We get there and after 40 photo's my battery goes flat... and
yep my spare was at home on the charger...
Still got some nice picture.
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sandy frank
location:
Indiana-ish
Gender: Male
Why doesn't Johnny care...?
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<Reply # 145 on 3/8/2011 12:30 PM >
| | | | hahahahahhhhahhhhhhhhhhh.....!
AppleSnail, you had me rolling through the entire read!
I've no sense, I lick electric fence; I put barbed wire in my pants and do a Celtic dance.
- My Canon 300D is beat to hell, a bit finicky, and a 'lil loose, much like everything else I own...
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nykon
location:
New Zealand
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 146 on 3/8/2011 3:40 PM >
| | | | Posted by sandy frank
hahahahahhhhahhhhhhhhhhh.....!
AppleSnail, you had me rolling through the entire read!
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Hehehe, x2. Taking a cat for a walk in the drains is just hilarious!
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Decayed_Beauty
location:
Western NY
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<Reply # 148 on 3/11/2011 4:09 AM >
| | | | assuming that all structures in a given close area were all the same integrity, and not thinking wise enough that just because one thing holds my weight, doesn't mean another will.
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Eschaton
 
location:
Western NC
Gender: Male
Entry: Eschaton (es-kuh-tawn) noun | end of time, climax of history | Etymology: Greek for 'last'
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<Reply # 149 on 3/11/2011 9:16 AM >
| | | | All of this on the same outing.
Explore an abandoned (but not entirely unused) power plant with a group far too big/noisy.
Entering with only dollar store medical masks to protect from asbestos-saturated air. One explorer almost passed out.
Disorganized entry. One member of Infilgroup #2 mistook the flashlights of Infilgroup #1 for security, took off running, tripped and badly scraped his leg.
Not watching. Catwalk caved in under a more heavyset explorer. Luckily a big pipe broke his fall (into a flooded pipe room almost a story below), but he was covered in rusty cuts on his chest and stomach.
We try again a week later with only a group of three. We set off an alarm, having made it no further than the first attempt. Sprinting through woods, hiking on the banks of the Ohio River, and torn clothes ensue.
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gneithamer1
location:
Boston, MA
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 150 on 3/11/2011 11:37 PM >
| | | | My biggest mistake was deciding to walk up the stairs into a VERY unstable attic. I didn't take the time to test it to see if it was walkable and my foot broke through the floorboards and I cut my knee really badly on a rusty nail. Luckily I got out of there quickly and treated it properly. No infections. Just a big ol' scar. I always test for stability now. I was lucky I didn't fall all the way through.
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Eschaton
location:
Western NC
Gender: Male
Entry: Eschaton (es-kuh-tawn) noun | end of time, climax of history | Etymology: Greek for 'last'
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<Reply # 151 on 3/12/2011 5:38 AM >
| | | | Posted by gneithamer1
My biggest mistake was deciding to walk up the stairs into a VERY unstable attic. I didn't take the time to test it to see if it was walkable and my foot broke through the floorboards and I cut my knee really badly on a rusty nail. Luckily I got out of there quickly and treated it properly. No infections. Just a big ol' scar. I always test for stability now. I was lucky I didn't fall all the way through.
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UE scars are the best kind
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Loki
location:
Melbourne, Australia
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 152 on 3/12/2011 6:01 AM >
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UE scars are the best kind
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Wounds heal, chicks dig scars and UER glory never fades.
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Eschaton
location:
Western NC
Gender: Male
Entry: Eschaton (es-kuh-tawn) noun | end of time, climax of history | Etymology: Greek for 'last'
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<Reply # 153 on 3/12/2011 8:18 AM >
| | | | Posted by ExplorerLoki
Wounds heal, chicks dig scars and UER glory never fades.
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I have a -faint- scar on my right hand from palm to wrist from a cut received when trying to climb a rotted wall and having it collapse under me.
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Relocate
location:
nunyabiz
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 154 on 3/13/2011 1:56 AM >
| | | | So one time I go draining solo in unknown drains, climb through some alright systems, get deep in and fall in pile of sludge/poop... I booked it out and by the time I was home it was hardened on my skin and hair...I took a shower and so far no ill effects!
To fail in what you've yet to achieve is more the spirit of exploration than to make no attempt at all.
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Digital Dante
location:
Louisville KY
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 155 on 3/13/2011 4:37 AM >
| | | | Posted by ExplorerLoki
Wounds heal, chicks dig scars and UER glory never fades.
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I've got a nice one from "the slide" as the team calls it
Omg fucking pistons
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Digital Dante
location:
Louisville KY
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 156 on 3/13/2011 4:42 AM >
| | | | Posted by Eschatonal
All of this on the same outing.
Explore an abandoned (but not entirely unused) power plant with a group far too big/noisy.
Entering with only dollar store medical masks to protect from asbestos-saturated air. One explorer almost passed out.
Disorganized entry. One member of Infilgroup #2 mistook the flashlights of Infilgroup #1 for security, took off running, tripped and badly scraped his leg.
Not watching. Catwalk caved in under a more heavyset explorer. Luckily a big pipe broke his fall (into a flooded pipe room almost a story below), but he was covered in rusty cuts on his chest and stomach.
We try again a week later with only a group of three. We set off an alarm, having made it no further than the first attempt. Sprinting through woods, hiking on the banks of the Ohio River, and torn clothes ensue.
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Fun times, I still have a scar from that, that slide is infamous
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Omg fucking pistons
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MindHacker
location:
Suburbs of DC
Gender: Male
If you spot a terrorist arrow, pin it to the wall with your shoulder.
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<Reply # 157 on 3/13/2011 9:51 PM >
| | | | Posted by Eschatonal
Entering with only dollar store medical masks to protect from asbestos-saturated air. One explorer almost passed out.
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If someone passed out it wasn't asbestos, it was toxic gasses / lack of oxygen, both things that particulate masks wouldn't have changed... just saying.
New worst mistake: Exploring with newbs who couldn't scale fences (7') and had no flashlight discipline (ie, DON'T POINT AT WINDOWS). I've done more dangerous (injury/security) things, but this had the worst risk-reward ratio.
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Eschaton
location:
Western NC
Gender: Male
Entry: Eschaton (es-kuh-tawn) noun | end of time, climax of history | Etymology: Greek for 'last'
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<Reply # 158 on 3/14/2011 11:29 PM >
| | | | Posted by MindHacker
If someone passed out it wasn't asbestos, it was toxic gasses / lack of oxygen, both things that particulate masks wouldn't have changed... just saying.
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His words, but I assumed that it was irritation from the bad air causing shortness of breath.
He could also just be a pansy :V
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Triodug
location:
Seattle, WA
Gender: Male
Triodug used Bodyslam
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<Reply # 159 on 4/10/2011 4:05 AM >
| | | | My biggest mistake probably has to be crossing a busy street to get to an abandoned hotel.
I was with a couple friends showing them the hotel and they suggested we cross the street, I told them no and that we have to go around some trees and not be spotted, they didn't listen.
We crossed the street and went inside, after about 10 minutes while we were looking at some documents we heard some scratches, I walked over to see what it was and I was greeted with a gun and police badge to the face.
The person holding the gun said "get on the floor and put your hands up" I was relieved that it wasn't someone else but then again said "fuck".
We were then questioned but were really polite to them and had some good conversations while they told us the history of the hotel. They then told us what we are doing is alright with them and if we are caught by someone else they'll have us on record and will let us go every time, just as long as we report any taggers in the area, specifically one who uses just blue paint who has been "Terrorizing this city".
Some business across the street saw us go in and called them. The only reason they stopped us was because they thought we were taggers, and the respirator didn't help convince them otherwise.
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