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Infiltration Forums > Rookie Forum > If the police ever caught you, what was the punishment?(Viewed 10421 times)
EsseXploreR location:
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Re: If the police ever caught you, what was the punishment?
<Reply # 20 on 12/19/2020 9:08 AM >
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Posted by Cfourexplore

What got me about this was originally one cop said I could theoretically be charged with B&E...although all I did was climb through an already open window.


Yep. Depending on the state "breaking" refers to the theoretical "seal" of the building. So any non traditional entry method to a building breaks that "seal". Opening a window, Reaching through one to open an adjacent door or even just climbing through a window could definitely count.



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Re: If the police ever caught you, what was the punishment?
<Reply # 21 on 1/22/2021 10:18 PM >
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The last and only time I was caught I was a minor, and it did NOT look good bahaha. Allow me to tell the story because it's so wacky.
TLDR: I was really dumb nerdy kid so I don't wanna be further reminded how stupid it was (I think we were all about 17), we straight up had a machete and a barbed wire bat, we met a FAMILY with KIDS that were also exploring there, and we did NOT get in any trouble.

My 2 friends and I had impulsively decided within the same day to drive several hours up to Cleveland Ohio after hearing about a whole abandoned town up there that supposedly held 'spooky cultist meetings. Us dweebs brought a machete and a homemade barbed wire bat for self defense bahaha.
We got to a no trespassing gate, and started on a small hike to this supposed town. Just a few minutes in, we saw a flashlight coming towards us. Oh no, cultists! They got closer and it ended up being a couple with 2 kids! They said they explore this place like every other year together (GOALS!) and we explained our dumb story why we had the weapons and ended up exploring as a group! We took a trail in the woods that led to one of the most famous sights there, an old barn with a noose in it. We saw it then started heading further down the path, and that's when we heard a police horn. It turned out the place was rigged with all kinds of motion sensor cameras, we could actually see some kind of infrared light flash on one of our cameras that was positioned just above the entrance of an abandoned house. We started to head back, friends insisted that we dispose of our weapons. They threw theirs in a bush. I kept mine in hand to just be as honest as possible because the likelihood was they already saw we had weapons on the camera. When we got to the police car waiting for us next to our car, they inquired about our weapons, and said trying to throw away the other weapon was 'disposing of evidence' and would get us further in trouble. He gave us a chance to go back and find it. I by some miracle found it in the tall grass when I felt it with my foot.
After waiting there for what felt like forever, we were let off with warnings, most likely because we were minors. They kept the weapons and said we could return to the police station the following day to retrieve them. Obviously we didn't care about them that much and we weren't spending the night so now the Cleveland police have a machete and spiked bat in their arsenal. the end.



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Re: If the police ever caught you, what was the punishment?
<Reply # 22 on 2/4/2021 11:44 PM >
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Different places have different rules.
For example, trespassing on a construction site in Florida is a state felony.

Be white, be polite, or don't be seen. These each help.

Once I was stopped by 5 police forces at once. I was on a new parking garage on new year's eve taking fireworks pictures. Someone saw "a guy holding a gun" on a rooftop at night. Tip: black metal tripods look intimidating. "Special capitol," county, city, state, and some other group each had a squad car, and they zipped up the parking garage ramps.

I heard them and saw the lights and stood still. They did the "half circle of cars shining spotlights at a suspect" and I stood really still. They did the usual check for weapons, tagging tools, and vandalism. They took my wallet for me out to check my ID (papiers, bitte).



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Re: If the police ever caught you, what was the punishment?
<Reply # 23 on 2/5/2021 2:01 PM >
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My 2 friends and I had impulsively decided within the same day to drive several hours up to Cleveland Ohio after hearing about a whole abandoned town up there that supposedly held 'spooky cultist meetings


This led me down a Googlebitch rabbit hole that turned up a whole bunch of Ohio ghost towns I was unaware of, and are now pins on my map. I love this stuff - even if only foundations remain. While big city factories, warehouses, and churches are much more desirable, my balls are no longer big enough for confrontation with who knows what/who lurks within and my now gimpy giddy-up makes for a less than hasty retreat. Thanks for sharing your tale and inadvertently pinning my map with small balled gimpy old man explores!



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Re: If the police ever caught you, what was the punishment?
<Reply # 24 on 2/8/2021 3:51 AM >
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I've only ever been let off with a warning. The cop was livid, though. Gave us a really long and loud speech before he told us to go home, then followed our car to make sure we headed in the direction we said we'd go. He also got the license plate number. All in all, he sent us home, but made it clear he would remember us and threatened arrest if we returned.



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Re: If the police ever caught you, what was the punishment?
<Reply # 25 on 5/24/2021 3:20 AM >
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Posted by plight


So... Get busted doing something cool then chill for 6 months? Doesn't seem too bad. If you get the nickel ride a second or third time can they bring up your previous incidents?


You don't have to do something cool to get busted. You don't want to be doing anything that will get you a second look from a cop in the hour before shift-change. The NYPD is notoriously underpaid given the cost of living in NYC and they're always looking for OT.

Anyway yes, but it doesn't matter. You get cut loose immediately. There are stories of people getting busted several times a day for the same petty crap.

Wait until after this year's mayoral election to see if this continues. On the off-chance that Curtis Sliwa wins, it's going to be back to the Rudy/Bloomberg iron fist shtick.





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Re: If the police ever caught you, what was the punishment?
<Reply # 26 on 11/27/2021 8:02 PM >
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Just posted this on another thread, so here's my shitty story -

"The reason I quit Urbex for 5 years was I got a citation. I was fairly new to Urbex and made some dumb mistakes being 17 and all, but I digress. I parked down the road from an abandoned farm house with some buds. By chance, an ex-girlfriend of a bud I was with (in retrospect, probably how he knew the place existed) called the cops on us when we went in. Cops showed up and it was none other than the two cops who came to my school to give a lesson on drug use etc. They said there had been problems in the past with this property and called the owner to decide our fate. Walked away with a fat 350 dollar ticket. Ended up doing 20 hours community service. Haven't been Urbexing since, despite the ticket now being off my record.

Moral is, don't be an idiot I guess. When I end up going out again I'll be careful to park far away and make sure there's no vindictive ex-girlfriends across the street "



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Re: If the police ever caught you, what was the punishment?
<Reply # 27 on 11/28/2021 9:03 PM >
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Posted by Boffo
I can confirm in Canada trespassing is no big deal, as someone who has personally completed multiple criminal record checks and security clearance authorizations to work with the federal government.


Canada’s pretty lax, which is great. But while your ‘official’ record may not be marred, every interaction you have with the police is still recorded. So if it’s the fifth time you’ve been let off with a warning, best not to lie and tell them it’s only the first time you’ve ever been stopped. Shit like that can definitely come into play if they decide to look into you a little more.


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Re: If the police ever caught you, what was the punishment?
<Reply # 28 on 4/8/2023 1:41 AM >
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I went to jail for three days, got bonded out, and was on bond for a full year before being placed on two years deferred probation. All for an abandoned house in a suburb in Dallas. I was charged with class A misdemeanor trespass, and the DA gave me the maximum penalty possible. My conditions included theft intervention classes (i guess they didn’t have any trespassing intervention classes available), a drug/alcohol assessment community service, promise to destroy my photos I had taken (I did not do this one) as well as any other media, and monthly reporting, and some other stuff I can’t remember - not to mention thousands of dollars in fines. It was great times.
I had no record and only was charged with trespassing, btw. My story is definitely not common, but it can happen!

Did I learn my lesson? Nope.


Here’s the horrifying details and back-story if interested:
https://www.uer.ca...rrpage=1&pp#post19

I’ve been caught lots of times but aside from a ticket at the Baker Hotel, and a couple well-armed property owner confrontations, the nightmare I just described was my only serious legal snafu.


Edit:
Oh, shit, I totally forgot about this one:
https://www.uer.ca...=121385&currpage=3

Oh, and I had my car towed once. That was a bummer. At first I thought someone stole it. All alone, middle of the night in BFE nowhere. After banging on the front door of an active prison and speaking with an asshole prison guard, I was able to negotiate a ride into town (long story, but this one really sucked too).

Damn, I guess I had blocked a few of these out, lol.


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Minneapolis MN
 
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Re: If the police ever caught you, what was the punishment?
<Reply # 29 on 5/6/2023 9:52 PM >
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Not too long ago me and 10 others (I won't mention their names) got arrested for exploring a storm drain near a waterworks plant and it went under a massive railroad yard. We popped a manhole cover that was near the waterworks plant and was in a neighborhood. I guy in a house across the street called the police on us while we were in the drain. We later saw that there was 3 police cars waiting by the lid but at that time we didn't know that the police were there for us, so we decided to wait in the drain and try to find another way out but the other lids we checked were in the street, so we had to wait a while to see if the police would leave, well apparently they didn't. We found out that 3 of our crew left the drain through the lid but were not seen again that night. About 6 of us went out the outfall, which was on park land by the Mississippi River. After we got out of the drain, we started to walk down the walking path and all of a sudden we were all surrounded by police cars. They said "DON'T RUN, IF YOU RUN THIS WILL BE A LOT WORSE FOR YOU". They also told they had a dog and they used a drone to find us, so with that being said we were doomed no matter what. All of this stuff that happened that night went public and on the news all because we went into a manhole cover into a storm drain. All 11 of us got charged with at least a misdemeanor but originally it would of been a gross misdemeanor for which the judge somewhat worked with most of us on that. The police called it trespassing in the critical infrastructure for which none of us have ever heard of at that time. Everyone except me went to jail that night because since I have autism they didn't put me in jail. We all think they were overly hard on us and wanted to make an example out of us. I just horrible about what happened to all of us because all this was meant to be was a fun exploring time of exploring a drain and it was very bad time for all of us. This was my only time I've been arrested and charged for exploring. This happened in Anoka County (in Fridley MN to be exact), so I highly recommend being very careful when exploring anything in Anoka County in Minnesota because if you get caught by the police etc they will make your life a living hell, so just be warned. From what I've heard from other people, exploring storm drains in Minnesota isn't a big deal. It might be trespassing but not a big deal. Anoka County for some reason makes everything a big deal.



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Re: If the police ever caught you, what was the punishment?
<Reply # 30 on 6/20/2023 5:21 AM >
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The worst "punishment" I got was getting cuffed and questioned on the side walk. Officer went through my belongings to see if my story matched up. Once they determined my story was legit, they let me go with a warning.



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Re: If the police ever caught you, what was the punishment?
<Reply # 31 on 6/20/2023 7:17 AM >
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I recently made a zine about Near Misses that included a lot of stories about escaping from the authorities, however there was no punishment in all those cases.

When caught leaving drains, you're just breaking a water board bi-law so cops tend to be like "Gee, you would never get me down there!"

I'm generally super careful when infiltrating the city's infrastructure, so I've been lucky so far, as it tends to end in a court appearance & a criminal conviction.

I'm also careful with abandoned topside stuff, but I've been lucky there as well. Another section of the Cave Clan that enjoy certain stimulants seem to get busted regularly and they seem to mostly get off with just warnings.



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Re: If the police ever caught you, what was the punishment?
<Reply # 32 on 6/27/2023 4:45 PM >
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Some years ago when I first got into the Urbex hobby as a teenager. A close friend and I got caught doing a recon of an abandoned restaurant in our home town. Admittedly we were carless and spent too much time walking around on the exposed street side of the building. Unbeknownst to us at the time a passer by had seen us and called called the police. But we remained unaware of this until after we climbed a drain pipe to get on the roof. Within seconds of setting foot on the roof my friend tackles me to the roof, and pointed to a patrol car parked in the alley where we had been standing moments before. After collecting ourselves we started to slowly crawl across the roof trying to find an alternate way down while counting six more patrol cars as we went. Quickly coming to the realization that the entire night watch from our small towns police department had us surrounded we settled in to wait them out. After three hours and an underwhelming rooftop nap, we made another crawl around the perimeter of the building. To our surprise the coast was clear! my friend and excitedly climbed back down and made a quick dash to where we had left his car in the restaurant parking lot. Looking back on it now opting for convenient parking was a mistake. Because as we approached the car we were greeted buy the lights of a patrol car coming from the far end of the parking lot. We were quickly detained and separated by two police officers before we could establish a cover story. Fortunately for us we were close enough to overhear the others conversation, and quickly established a story that we had just returned from a "Bro walk" in a neighborhood close by. Even more fortunate for us the officers could not prove their suspensions, or disprove our paper thin alibi. Finally after a several minuet lecture about how "this sort of foolishness could forever effect our lives" we were released with nothing but a verbal warning.

Over a decade later and with countless adventures now under our belts it would seem that officers lecture didn't quite take for the two of us.



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Re: If the police ever caught you, what was the punishment?
<Reply # 33 on 6/27/2023 5:28 PM >
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Posted by SN95cowboy"this sort of foolishness could forever effect our lives"


Kids, don't (*rolls dice*) urban explore. Because bastard cops will ruin your life if they catch you. Otherwise, it's pretty much benign.



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