TurboZutek
     
King Dick
Location: Scotland
Gender: Male
Giant octo-penised rapephant
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<Reply # 100 on 4/28/2008 5:29 PM >
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Fixed punctuation.
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I was posing a question, but your version is FAR funnier. I would pay to see that, in fact.
And yes, this thread is approaching CRITICAL WIN LEVEL-1!!!11!!1!!!
Chris...
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Max12
 
Location: The Rotten Apple
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<Reply # 101 on 4/28/2008 8:40 PM >
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Again, may I ask also, what was so wicked awesome that you risked your life and your wife to explore? It must have been... fucking outstanding!
Chris...
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I'm sure he wasn't expecting drug smugglers. It was a normal trip in a rural area that happened to go wrong, but he had a weapon, so he still has a wife? Something like that?
IMHO, it's impossible to make blanket statements about carrying weapons because each environment is completely different. You used the example of Iraq, or the wilderness, etc.
Carry em if you need em.
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MutantMandias
 
Perverse and Often Baffling
Location: Atlanta, GA
Gender: Male
Are you a reporter? Contact me for a UE interview! Also not averse to the the idea of group/anal.
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<Reply # 102 on 4/28/2008 8:43 PM >
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Carry em if you need em.
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Sure, but 95% of people who carry them are incapable of making this decision correctly.
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Jonsered
Location: Back in New Mexico where I belong
Gender: Male
Dressed for a scarecrow ball.........
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<Reply # 103 on 4/28/2008 8:44 PM >
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The original poster asked if day to day and in urban areas a weapon was a good idea. Tell me Jonsered, how should Octane fight off a drug smuggling bear, in an urban environment... with a set of chucks??
Again, may I ask also, what was so wicked awesome that you risked your life and your wife to explore? It must have been... fucking outstanding!
Chris...
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I was simply responding to the folks who said those who carry weapons are losers. I personally don't carry nunchuks. Octane made his choice, and I'm fine with him living his own life.
As for myself, you don't get it. We were just walking in the desert, looking for a mine. I never said it was awesome, rad, or totally far out. It was just a mine. We were minding our own business, and presto, here come the dopers. I didn't set out to be Rambo, I simply wasn't going to be a victim.
I have changed my personal exploring ethics code. From now on it will be: "Take only aimed shots, leave only hobo corpses." Copper scrappers, meth heads and homeless beware. The Jonsered cometh among you, bringing fear and dread.
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MutantMandias
Perverse and Often Baffling
Location: Atlanta, GA
Gender: Male
Are you a reporter? Contact me for a UE interview! Also not averse to the the idea of group/anal.
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<Reply # 104 on 4/28/2008 8:47 PM >
| | | | Posted by Jonsered
I was simply responding to the folks who said those who carry weapons are losers. I personally don't carry nunchuks. Octane made his choice, and I'm fine with him living his own life.
As for myself, you don't get it. We were just walking in the desert, looking for a mine. I never said it was awesome, rad, or totally far out. It was just a mine. We were minding our own business, and presto, here come the dopers. I didn't set out to be Rambo, I simply wasn't going to be a victim.
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It's your own damned fault. You shouldn't be walking around in areas that are not under police and/or camera surveillance and protection. You have no right to protection and preservation without the authority of the state's representatives.
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TurboZutek
King Dick
Location: Scotland
Gender: Male
Giant octo-penised rapephant
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<Reply # 105 on 4/28/2008 8:55 PM >
| | | | Let's recap the first post of this thread:
Now that I have started to go on U.E. missions again after a year and a half hiatus, I have noticed some alarming changes. I bumped into some other UEers on a few recent missions, as did a friend of mine on some other missions, and both of us noted that more and more UEers are arming themselves, especially on night missions. Personally, on night missions, I carry a nunchaku, to be used in extreme danger. But, the weapons of choice I have seen lately are pellet handguns, snub rifles, and my friend even saw a 9mm handgun. One dude even had a flaregun in a holster.
I don't really agree with firearms being brought along on UE missions. I mean, one accidental startle, and things could get messy real fast.
Has anyone else noticed this, and/or carried a weapon on a UE mission?
-Octane
Let's not get too drawn into land pirates or being chased by tigers, neither of these scenario were posed by the OP.
The question as I see it isn't 'should I take a weapon to defend against real threats' (like the ones you outline Jonsered) but more 'should I take a weapon to beat up the baddies and be a true UE ninja super-hero' OR 'should I take a weapon because everyone else seems to be' ?
And what I'm saying is 'your more likely to just get yourself hurt'.
And really, that would be OK too. I can stand to see Octane get hurt.
Chris...
We all had ostriches. My dad had an ostrich farm! I remember one day someone came in and said the high altitude bombing of Kosovo had been a limited success, so we all went out and celebrated… by killing an ostrich and boiling it in kiwi fruit. |
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Max12
Location: The Rotten Apple
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<Reply # 106 on 4/28/2008 8:59 PM >
| | | | Posted by MutantMandias
It's your own damned fault. You shouldn't be walking around in areas that are not under police and/or camera surveillance and protection. You have no right to protection and preservation without the authority of the state's representatives.
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Wait what? Of course people have a right to "protection and preservation" outside the state's reach. People have a right to defend themselves anywhere...which is why he brought a gun.
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MutantMandias
Perverse and Often Baffling
Location: Atlanta, GA
Gender: Male
Are you a reporter? Contact me for a UE interview! Also not averse to the the idea of group/anal.
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<Reply # 107 on 4/28/2008 9:02 PM >
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One dude even had a flaregun in a holster.
-Octane
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Oh. That's different. I had originally read that as
One dude even had a flaming lobster.
In that case, please disregard and reverse all of my previous comments.
Also, please rotate and enlarge all of my subsequent comments.
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Max12
Location: The Rotten Apple
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<Reply # 108 on 4/28/2008 9:05 PM >
| | | | Posted by MutantMandias
Oh. That's different. I had originally read that as
One dude even had a flaming lobster.
In that case, please disregard and reverse all of my previous comments.
Also, please rotate and enlarge all of my subsequent comments.
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I loled
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blackhawk
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Location: Mission Control
UER newbie
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<Reply # 109 on 4/28/2008 9:57 PM >
| | | | Posted by turbozutek
Let's recap the first post of this thread:
Now that I have started to go on U.E. missions again after a year and a half hiatus, I have noticed some alarming changes. I bumped into some other UEers on a few recent missions, as did a friend of mine on some other missions, and both of us noted that more and more UEers are arming themselves, especially on night missions. Personally, on night missions, I carry a nunchaku, to be used in extreme danger. But, the weapons of choice I have seen lately are pellet handguns, snub rifles, and my friend even saw a 9mm handgun. One dude even had a flaregun in a holster.
I don't really agree with firearms being brought along on UE missions. I mean, one accidental startle, and things could get messy real fast.
Has anyone else noticed this, and/or carried a weapon on a UE mission?
-Octane
Let's not get too drawn into land pirates or being chased by tigers, neither of these scenario were posed by the OP.
The question as I see it isn't 'should I take a weapon to defend against real threats' (like the ones you outline Jonsered) but more 'should I take a weapon to beat up the baddies and be a true UE ninja super-hero' OR 'should I take a weapon because everyone else seems to be' ?
And what I'm saying is 'your more likely to just get yourself hurt'.
And really, that would be OK too. I can stand to see Octane get hurt.
Chris...
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Agreed. There's more than one way to get hurt too. A mandatory five is a long time to enjoy the pain of one's stupidity. Or what if you somehow cause the death or maiming of a innocent bystander, maybe even a Jerry's kid.
Recently I saw someone who's a member here post a pic of a "bad ass" associate with a lead pipe in their hand at a well known spot. Prolly the same asshole that zippoed that site recently too. It's old scool.
Just when I thought I was out... they pulled me back in.
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CaptOrbit
Location: Sarasota, FL or Cincinnati, OH
Gender: Male
There you are, right back in the jungle again.
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<Reply # 110 on 4/28/2008 11:09 PM >
| | | | Eh, It doesn't really matter anyway. This whole thread amounts to six pages of internet enhanced navel gazing. People are going to do what ever they want in regards to carrying a weapon while exploring, no matter what is said on this board.
My $.02
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oCtAnE
Location: TORONTO, CANADA
Gender: Male
EXPLORER AT LARGE
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<Reply # 111 on 4/28/2008 11:10 PM >
| | | | Posted by turbozutek
And really, that would be OK too. I can stand to see Octane get hurt.
Chris...
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Wow. Wishing that someone you don't know at all gets hurt. Who peed in your cornflakes anyway? Last I checked, I haven't offended you in anyway.
Also.....I only bring the 'chucks on night missions when I am alone. Daytime missions, and/or missions when there are eexplorers with me, I am unarmed. My tripod is enough to hurt someone if I had to.
Cheers.
-Octane
FUELED BY OCTANE. |
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micro
Gender: Male
Slowly I turned
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<Reply # 112 on 4/28/2008 11:27 PM >
| | | | Wtf is a mission?
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micro
Gender: Male
Slowly I turned
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<Reply # 113 on 4/28/2008 11:30 PM >
| | | | Oh wait, I forgot you said you used to go exploring with Roadwolf. Nm..
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hydrotherapy
Clever Girl
Location: Circle of Least Confusion
RPS is inside all of us
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<Reply # 114 on 4/28/2008 11:59 PM >
| | | | When exploring, I prefer to arm myself with biting wit and a nice rack.
S'all I've needed so far.
Get down, girl, go 'head, get down. |
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Lord
above and beyond
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<Reply # 115 on 4/29/2008 12:21 AM >
| | | | I bring an uzi for the baddies and a bag of what looks like weed but is really just Chloroform on some pinestuff to get me out of trouble with the police..
"is that weed?"
"no sir"
"well let me just check that" *FAINT*
so far so good..
the hard part is dragging him back to the cruiser and locking the door
what with being cuffed on the ground because of the uzi and all
I will defeat that which was once untouchable only so that I may now move on |
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blackhawk
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Location: Mission Control
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<Reply # 116 on 4/29/2008 1:01 AM >
| | | | Posted by hydrotherapy
When exploring, I prefer to arm myself with biting wit and a nice rack.
S'all I've needed so far.
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At last someone said something that makes sense...
Just when I thought I was out... they pulled me back in.
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PhotoSeeker
Location: Sudbury
Gender: Male
MikeOnline
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<Reply # 117 on 4/29/2008 1:13 AM >
| | | | Posted by turbozutek
As long as you can get there on a flying unicorn, I don't see any need to be armed.
Chris...
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LOL
Lots of Urban Exploration goodness at https://urbexobsession.com |
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Mowgli-dog
Location: Vancouver, B.C.
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 118 on 4/29/2008 1:50 AM >
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Wtf is a mission?
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EXACTLY!
"We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm." -George Orwell
Rest in peace, my pal Mowgli - the best dog there ever was. |
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Steed
Location: Edmonton/Seoul
Gender: Male
Your Friendly Neighbourhood Race Traitor
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<Reply # 119 on 4/29/2008 2:24 AM >
| | | | Posted by Max12
I'm sure he wasn't expecting drug smugglers. It was a normal trip in a rural area that happened to go wrong, but he had a weapon, so he still has a wife? Something like that?
IMHO, it's impossible to make blanket statements about carrying weapons because each environment is completely different. You used the example of Iraq, or the wilderness, etc.
Carry em if you need em.
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What kind of barbaric place are you people living in? Some of the people on here sound like they are in a Mad Max movie. I can understand carrying a gun in Iraq, but in your own country? That's when you know it's time to move. I can tell you I would not be urban exploring if it meant the possibility of encountering gangs of armed bandits.
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