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S&J Explore
Location: Chicago, Illinois Gender: Male Total Likes: 104 likes
Nothing's illegal unless you get caught
| | | Worst Failure with a Location? < on 5/5/2018 2:02 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Ever find an Urbex location that was just a complete waste of time and resources? Maybe it was just while scouting, or maybe during an actual exploration, doesn't matter. I haven't had too many failures yet but I'll start with the worst so far. I was looking for a new place to explore since the previous place turned out to be way to risky and not worth it(It was a truck depot that was really open, on a busy street, with cameras, and a guard station) I was just driving around the industrial area around me looking for warehouses and such, and I came across a really cool looking warehouse and distribution center. The window was wide open and the building had no cameras, the surrounding businesses did, however. I came back the next day since it was late just to scout again, it was a bit busier since it was a workday. Anyways, my buddy and I looked around the building then I snapped a single picture of the front door. Suddenly, my buddy taps me on the back and says we have to leave and that's when I see a guy storming up to us from one of the other businesses. He had a really heavy Baltic accent, I'm guessing he immigrated from Europe and wasn't born in America. He gets really close to us and in his heavy accent yells,"Why you take picture of building?!" My bud and I are startled and I just studder out,"It looks cool..." He pauses and looks at my bud and me and says,"You wait here." Next, he storms off back into his companies building and we book it back into the neighborhood. I'm guessing he was in charge of monitoring his building cameras and thought we were suspicious, or who knows maybe they were hiding something in the abandoned building. Regardless, we decided to scratch the place for now and maybe hit it at some later point. I hope we can get a good discussion going of our biggest failures yet. I look forward to seeing some of your experiences.
[last edit 5/5/2018 2:40 AM by S&J Explore - edited 1 times]
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Location: North Carolina Gender: Male Total Likes: 583 likes
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| | | Re: Worst Failure with a Location? < Reply # 9 on 6/23/2018 11:54 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | A few years ago, I went to a nuclear plant, only wanting to take pics (obviously not gonna infiltrate). I approach the bridge across the river, off the main road. No closed gate, card readers, guards, not even a 'keep out' or 'employees only' sign. There's a sign on the front fence that only states 'no guns or explosives, video surveillance maintained'. I figure I'll go until they ask me to leave, as I just want some pics. On the island, I park very conspicuously at the empty end of the lot, snapping the cooling towers and stuff. Five minutes go by, and 2 guards get out of a truck, each in full body armor, holding full auto rifles. I turn off the car, camera on dash, and hands up. Long story short(er), they didn't detain me, but took my picture and told me to delete my pics, warning me not to return. They seemed shocked as to how I got so far, and I said, "All I did was make a right turn and cross an unguarded bridge." They were nice about my stern and rather terrifying warning, and even said I could shoot from the road on the other side of the river though. I ended up with some good pics, most as good as what I'd deleted. I can chalk some of this up to a lapse in...common sense, but it amazed me that there was no front gate access control, considering their first response was heavily armed guards...
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