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EsseXploreR
Location: New Jersey Gender: Male Total Likes: 1172 likes
| | | | Re: Hilarious moments when you're spotted? < Reply # 40 on 12/17/2012 6:30 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | A few years back, I was tipped off by a friend that there was a developmental center the next county over with a ton of abandoned buildings. Of course, we took the next chance we got to go over there. The kid who tipped us off was our ride, but he didn't want to go inside, so he just waited on the porch. In hindsight.... maybe not the best idea. It turned out to just be one small abandoned doctors house right on the side of the road. We ran up to the building, casually found a way in, and strolled around for a little while. We spent all of 5 minutes inside, and as we were descending the stairs into the kitchen to leave, I saw through an eye level window two cops on foot walking around the building. They were walking right up to our only exit.After giving it less than a second of thought, I rammed a door with my shoulder, and to my luck it popped open without damaging the frame at all... I think. As we were running away, I saw a cop running full speed after us, screaming for us to stop running. I ran through a bunch of scenarios in my head, and every way it played out seemed to suck, so I told my friends to stop running. After the receiving the typical suburban cop attitude I expected, one of the cops started looking at my camera. To my surprise, he was actually interested in the pictures! I thought from that point we would be fine, but then they called the DHS on us. They cursed us out, scared us a little bit, and then let us on our way. Luckily I was still a minor then!
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| La Cigale
Location: Paris, France Gender: Male Total Likes: 33 likes
| | | Re: Hilarious moments when you're spotted? < Reply # 41 on 12/18/2012 6:07 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Both an entrance and an exit on the same night worth mentioning here : A while back I was making a trip into the Catacombs of Paris and our entrance was slightly different than the usual manhole that leads straight into the system, but rather you needed to open a small water drain with a pit of 1m, where there is a sideways crawl into a small ladder leading down 5m or so to a room filled with big heavy cables strewn across the room like the aftermath of a domestic violence scene around a spaghetti dinner. It would be rather ominous if it weren't for the overly cute stuffed toy giraffe clinging to the cables. We call this entrance "Hippy" because from this room you have to climb the walls (literally) to get to a tiny cutting in the wall. The crawl is so tight that we were originally told females couldn't pass because of their large hips. From the other side of the hippy there is another ladder, leading down 20m or so before the ladder runs out and you need to hold onto the stubs from where the authorities cut the ladder off to prevent people getting to the catacombs (tee hee hee, fail Monsieur KATAflick). All six of us get into the first room and I closed up the grate. We start shovelling bags through the hippy and four of us manage to post ourselves through it before someone opens the grate shines a torch down at us. - "Ce que tu fais?" shouted the voice. What are you doing. Don't enter here. Etc. Knowing only basic french myself, I relied on my native friend in front of my to guide me, but he said nothing, looked at them and just started to go through the hippy. Fine for him, he would make it through. My mind filled with scenes from movies where the hero tried to escape, crawling, and they've almost made it before the protagonist latches their arm onto his leg, dragging him back and beating him with a baton. Fortunately for the marrow in my bones, they had absolutely no intuition of following us into the dark underworld of Paris to apprehend us and they closed the grill and pushed on. Later my friend told me they weren't speaking with much authority and that's why he wasn't worried. Gave my heart a bloody pounding though. We enjoyed our balarde; through the tunnels, past the sculptures and encounters with the population sousterranean. Beers, cheese and good craik endued. After 8 or 10 or I don't know how long… you loose time under Paris, we decided to ascend. Although feeding there might be people at our point of entrance, we went looking for another exit. I was the first up and it was a similar set up to the one we entered, except this one didn't open onto a grand boulevard with wide footpaths, deserted residential street and the shadows of darkness. This one unhinged in a very posh neighbourhood, smack bang in front of a fish market. They were rolling open their shutters as a very muddy and dishevelled group popped their heads of the drain in front of their store like meerkats. They laughed and chuckled at the uncanny site of us coming out of their drain, hopefully not the same one used to flush the fish guts, although at this point in the night (morning?) I don't know if I would even be able to tell. They asked us if we were okay and after seeing who we were, and more impotently the state of our clothes, they brought out a large industrial roll of paper so we could wipe out hands and faces. They brought out a little table and set down a large bucket of warm water so we could wash some of the mud away from our faces. As I was pulling up the last person and putting the grill back over the whole he brought out another massive roll of paper for us to use. I politely declined explaining they had already done enough for us and we should probably push on. The whole time they were joking and laughing and generally being the best damn fish people in the history of fish people. It almost made me want to stop being vegetarian so I could eat their fish.
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| macgruder
Location: Northern NJ Gender: Male Total Likes: 582 likes
| | | | | Re: Hilarious moments when you're spotted? < Reply # 42 on 12/24/2012 5:11 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | We got caught once inside an abandoned hotel in NY state. The security guard was driving around outside in a golf cart, but was easily seen and able to hide from whenever he rolled past outside. We were going to go up into the main tower building, when we saw him drive by outside, so we hid behind two pillars next to a bathroom while one of us went into the bathroom to hide. The guard stops right outside the main entrance, and we hear the front doors being unlocked. The guard comes inside and walks towards the bathroom and sees us as he walks by and freaks out. We thought he was going to have a heart attack because he was at least 50 and about 400 lbs. After the initial shock and us telling him that we were just photographers, he told us he was just worried that we were vandals, as the place got trashed the week before by a bunch of kids. He let us finish looking around as long as we told him how we got in, so he could seal it up. Turns out he was a really nice guy and used to be in charge of the golf course on the property, now designated to just watch the place so no one would destroy it before they were able to sell the property.
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| Radical_Ed
Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA Gender: Male Total Likes: 2728 likes
"You work your life away and what do they give? You're only killing yourself to live!"
| | | Re: Hilarious moments when you're spotted? < Reply # 43 on 12/29/2012 9:16 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I have more tales from Byberry than I could possibly type up inside of 40 hours. Here's one. As usual, about 20 of us were on the roof of the five-story medical building (where the morgue was), partying our asses off in the wee hours when we hear (over the boombox blasting Metal and drunken banter of our white-trash army) "We know you're up there! C'mon down now!" Looking over the edge, there's a little white Ford Ranger with two rent-a-cops standing there, a hundred yards away, shining a floodlight up on the rooftop. We all started laughing hysterically, as drunken assholes will do, and promptly unloaded about four cases of empty beer and wine cooler bottles on their ass in a good five-minute volley. You never saw two white guys dance so well. Of course we all knew the REAL police would be coming in droves, so half of the crowd dispersed among the other 24 buildings via the steam tunnels and the rest of us just went down a few flights to wait for the police. Knowing they weren't going to come inside, we just sat there and watched them pull in, a good half-dozen paddy-wagon vans and a few patrol cars, sat there for a half hour as they milled about shining flashlights on a dead quiet abandonment, and finally drive away after the majority of them were done their cigarettes and chatting it up. Good times, I miss them so.
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| Deconstrukt
Location: Montreal Gender: Male Total Likes: 488 likes
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| | | Re: Hilarious moments when you're spotted? < Reply # 55 on 8/22/2016 9:14 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Last summer I was in Manchester with a bunch of international drainers, and we had the brilliant idea of trying a huge drain downtown, and the entrance we chose appeared to be right next to a police station. We decided to give it a try nonetheless. It fell down on me to go scout the two police vans parked in the lot, to see if someone was inside. Thankfully both vans were empty. After I signaled my group that the coast was clear, we went to look for a way down to the bottom of the river (the drop from the sidewalk to the river was more than 4m high, see pictures below). We quickly found a way to climb down with minimal risk, but it required LOTS of teamwork (and we nailed it like bosses that day). As there were 9 of us in the group, it couldn't be done quickly enough to remain unnoticed. It didn't take long before people who were passing by stopped to look at us climb down the wall in the sketchiest way possible, there was a gathering of people on a bridge nearby, pointing at us and taking pictures of us, some even asked if we were "urban explorers", to which we replied that we were only going down there to chase Pokemon. All the while we were a bit worried that it would attract the cop's attention, but in the end everything went okay. We even got a round of applause from the onlookers when the last of us reached the bottom of the river safely! Here are the pics: 1. The wall we had to climb down 2. To the right is one of the police vans parked nearby; higher up, my partners waiting for the all-clear signal 3. We had to climb down another wall, two of us only had hip waders, but TEAMWORK allowed us all to get down with minimal casualties 4. Mission accomplished! 5. We couldn't resist...
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| Doug
Gender: Male Total Likes: 771 likes
| | | | Re: Hilarious moments when you're spotted? < Reply # 56 on 8/24/2016 1:20 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Deconstrukt Last summer I was in Manchester with a bunch of international drainers, and we had the brilliant idea of trying a huge drain downtown, and the entrance we chose appeared to be right next to a police station. We decided to give it a try nonetheless. It fell down on me to go scout the two police vans parked in the lot, to see if someone was inside. Thankfully both vans were empty. After I signaled my group that the coast was clear, we went to look for a way down to the bottom of the river (the drop from the sidewalk to the river was more than 4m high, see pictures below). We quickly found a way to climb down with minimal risk, but it required LOTS of teamwork (and we nailed it like bosses that day). As there were 9 of us in the group, it couldn't be done quickly enough to remain unnoticed. It didn't take long before people who were passing by stopped to look at us climb down the wall in the sketchiest way possible, there was a gathering of people on a bridge nearby, pointing at us and taking pictures of us, some even asked if we were "urban explorers", to which we replied that we were only going down there to chase Pokemon. All the while we were a bit worried that it would attract the cop's attention, but in the end everything went okay. We even got a round of applause from the onlookers when the last of us reached the bottom of the river safely! Here are the pics: 1. The wall we had to climb down
2. To the right is one of the police vans parked nearby; higher up, my partners waiting for the all-clear signal
3. We had to climb down another wall, two of us only had hip waders, but TEAMWORK allowed us all to get down with minimal casualties
4. Mission accomplished!
5. We couldn't resist...
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