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 Snickerpuss
Location: Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
 |  | A rookie mistake, or stupidity ?
< on 2/23/2009 1:23 AM >
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YOU DECIDE
Yeah, I decided to make an epic title with a slogan just for your reading enjoyment, anyways.
When I first joined the site I spent alot of time in the database and alot of my first explorations, I found in the database. But alot of them I didnt find, why?
Becuase they were demolished, has anyone els ever overlooked the building status and went right to the location without even checking if it was demolished or not.. please say you have, it would make me feel alot better. Ha Ha.
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metawaffle
     
King of Puns
Location: Brisbane!
Gender: Male
Purveyor of Fine Lampshades
| |  | Re: A rookie mistake, or stupidity ?
<Reply # 1 on 2/23/2009 1:26 AM >
| | | | Not from the DB, but I've certainly sought places out based on photographs, only to find they're long gone. It's never a complete loss, though - you never know what you might find along the way.
http://www.longexposure.net |
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rob.i.am
  
Gender: Male
Carpe noctum
| | | Re: A rookie mistake, or stupidity ?
<Reply # 2 on 2/23/2009 1:31 AM >
|  | | | I have BUT I reddeemed myself (in my eyes anyway) by finding a location in the db that was marked "demolished" but which still had one very undemolished building remaining. That building has seen a little resurgence of late and I like to think it's because of me.
But I still felt like a dork when I went to the demolished location. 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rob666/ |
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paradoxjc
Location: SE pennsylvania
Gender: Male
| | Re: A rookie mistake, or stupidity ?
<Reply # 3 on 2/23/2009 2:34 AM >
| | | | no i haven't yet but like meta i was tricked by satellite imagery.
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget |
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Insitor
Location: above and below the midwest
Gender: Male
a firm believer in brawn over brains
| | Re: A rookie mistake, or stupidity ?
<Reply # 4 on 2/23/2009 5:18 AM >
| | | | I've heard about places from friends only to have them be demoed before i got there, and that's usually in less than a month.
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Shakes
Location: Mpls, MN
Gender: Male
| |  | | Re: A rookie mistake, or stupidity ?
<Reply # 5 on 2/23/2009 3:38 PM >
| | | | I haven't looked up a spot without knowing if it was demoed or not. Especially when I'm scouting I try and pay attention to what's around as far as demolition. The only one that was a quick abandon and demo was a big SuperValu office annex southwest of the cities and that one went down pretty quick after they moved.
www.tccrawlersyndicate.com |
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Opheliaism
 
Moderator
Location: Out on the border of everything and nothing, TN
Ophie
| | | Re: A rookie mistake, or stupidity ?
<Reply # 6 on 2/23/2009 3:40 PM >
| | | | It is a sad day when you go to a location only to find it has been demolished since you were there last and then you have tocome home and change the status in the DB. 
Show up at 9:30 with 15 dollars cash and your fingers crossed.
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MidnightRaven
Location: Montreal / Eastern Townships
Gender: Female
Urbain Artist
| | | Re: A rookie mistake, or stupidity ?
<Reply # 7 on 2/23/2009 5:02 PM >
| | | | lol yea i would totally do something like that ... just get too excited to go out exploring and miss the "demolished" status ....
it musta sucked, i woulda just kept looking or explored the carnage 
Nevermore |
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don_corleyone
Location: F/RoX
Gender: Male
I have abandonment issues
| | Re: A rookie mistake, or stupidity ?
<Reply # 8 on 2/23/2009 5:53 PM >
| | | | do people actually use the DB on UER?
leave the gun. take the cannoli.
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don_corleyone
Location: F/RoX
Gender: Male
I have abandonment issues
| | Re: A rookie mistake, or stupidity ?
<Reply # 10 on 2/23/2009 6:06 PM >
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word.
leave the gun. take the cannoli.
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Rinzler
Location: New Jersey
Nomad
| | | Re: A rookie mistake, or stupidity ?
<Reply # 11 on 2/23/2009 11:34 PM >
| | | | Haha. I research everything before i go. Ive never went somewhere and found out it was demolished. I look for recent pics or just word of mouth from people i know around the state. Nothing like wasting a trip and being pissed for something that is demo'd. Always research first.
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Crumpet
Location: Brisbane, AUS
Gender: Male
You know you're in Brisbane when...
| | | Re: A rookie mistake, or stupidity ?
<Reply # 12 on 2/23/2009 11:53 PM >
| | | | Posted by Shakes
I haven't looked up a spot without knowing if it was demoed or not. Especially when I'm scouting I try and pay attention to what's around as far as demolition. The only one that was a quick abandon and demo was a big SuperValu office annex southwest of the cities and that one went down pretty quick after they moved.
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Yeah, I passed an abandoned medical centre just two weeks ago and marked it down as worth checking out. When I passed it again just yesterday, it was 3/4 demolished already.
Some buildings just go fast, I guess.
- Crumpet (http://www.urbanillusions.org)
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Shakes
Location: Mpls, MN
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: A rookie mistake, or stupidity ?
<Reply # 13 on 2/23/2009 11:58 PM >
| | | | Posted by Crumpet
Yeah, I passed an abandoned medical centre just two weeks ago and marked it down as worth checking out. When I passed it again just yesterday, it was 3/4 demolished already.
Some buildings just go fast, I guess.
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Yeah, that's my concern, they're abandoning and demoing a power plant this summer that's supposed to be gone by the end of the year. I'm going to be sad if I forget to check it out before its down...or if they demo it while I'm in it.
www.tccrawlersyndicate.com |
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Lord
above and beyond
| | Re: A rookie mistake, or stupidity ?
<Reply # 14 on 2/24/2009 2:14 AM >
| | | | I find things first then post them.. not the other way around
I will defeat that which was once untouchable only so that I may now move on |
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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.
| | | Re: A rookie mistake, or stupidity ?
<Reply # 15 on 2/24/2009 2:16 AM >
| | | | So, do you burn them down after you post them, or after you poop in them?
mutantMandias may cause dizziness, sexual nightmares, and sleep crime. ++++ mutantMandias has to return some videotapes ++++ Do not taunt mutantMandias
mutantMandias is something more than human, more than a computer. mutantMandias is a murderously intelligent, sensually self-programmed, non-being |
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UniqueStyle
Gender: Male
| | Re: A rookie mistake, or stupidity ?
<Reply # 16 on 2/24/2009 2:52 AM >
| | | | Posted by don_corleyone
do people actually use the DB on UER?
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I try to look at the DB every time I log on.
It is great. Awesome pictures of so many places and right at your finger tips.
I love it.
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micro
Gender: Male
Slowly I turned
| | Re: A rookie mistake, or stupidity ?
<Reply # 17 on 2/24/2009 5:02 AM >
| | | | It's great, isn't it? I haven't even had to explore anything in real life since June of 2005.
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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.
| | Re: A rookie mistake, or stupidity ?
<Reply # 18 on 2/24/2009 4:05 PM >
| | | | I've gotten half-way through planning, calling friends, etc, and then noticed it was demo'd....
...but I've always known before I arrived.
"That's just my opinion. I would, however, advocate for explosive breaching, since speed and looking cool are both concerns in my job."-Wilkinshire |
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AKBC
Location: Colorado
Gender: Female
| | | Re: A rookie mistake, or stupidity ?
<Reply # 19 on 2/24/2009 4:22 PM >
| | | | Posted by metawaffle
Not from the DB, but I've certainly sought places out based on photographs, only to find they're long gone. It's never a complete loss, though - you never know what you might find along the way.
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We tend to just drive around and get lucky finding abandonments that aren't in any DB yet...however, we did hear about a beauty from a "friend" that assured us it was there, satellite showed big awesome site, 3 hour drive for a watertower...Boo to speedy demolition and slow satellite updates!
There were some gems along the way though so it wasn't a total wash...half the fun is the stuff found on accident.
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