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Location: Chicago!
Gender: Male
Homeless people are cool
 |  | Ever got really sick from urban exploring? Share your horror stories
< on 4/12/2009 6:44 AM >
|  | | | I went to this abandoned elevator grain and didn't have a respirator on me. Some parts of the building smelled like dead animals, others like actual human feces. And there was a lot of brown dust being kicked up.
The next morning upon waking up, I had a sore throat and all general muscle aches here and there. It sucked.
Afterwards, I went on Amazon and bought myself a P100 half-face respirator. ;)
But now that summer's coming...it'll get sweaty and uncomfortable
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The Bone Witch
Location: Rochester, NY - South Wedge
Gender: Male
| |  | Re: Ever got really sick from urban exploring? Share your horror stories
<Reply # 1 on 4/12/2009 8:19 PM >
| | | | I haven't gotten physically ill, but after crawling around so many dirty sites a kind of "nausea" sets in. The filth of the places permeates everything. It isn’t just dirt, but decay, a putrefaction that feels contagious. As if your soul begins to rot.
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Rinzler
    
Location: New Jersey
Nomad
| |  | Re: Ever got really sick from urban exploring? Share your horror stories
<Reply # 2 on 4/12/2009 10:34 PM >
| | | | I had a nasty cough from this old Hospital Complex a few weeks ago. Had the cough for about 4-5 days. Then it usually goes away. Ive gotten it before but i think thats going to end seeing im going to start wearing a mask when i go. Im used to the cough now if i get it, but i think ill prevent that for now on lol
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s.l.o.t.h
 
Location: Hamilton, ON
Gender: Male
http://www.flick r.com/photos/slo thtree/
| | | Re: Ever got really sick from urban exploring? Share your horror stories
<Reply # 3 on 4/12/2009 11:02 PM >
| | | | I've still got a cough and sore throat from an abandonment I went to about a week ago. Though I don't know if it was really the abandonment or getting caught in the rain afterwards. Either way, being sick sucks.
If you're having a stressed out day remember the sloth: They don't do shit and they haven't gone extinct; I'm sure you can afford to take a nap... |
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dynastar666
Location: Burlington, VT
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Ever got really sick from urban exploring? Share your horror stories
<Reply # 4 on 4/12/2009 11:59 PM >
| | | | After exploring a superfund site full of lead, arsenic and methyl-ethyl-bad-shit I felt pretty sick for a few days.
I shoot photos.
www.flickr.com/photos/dynastar666
www.developingpictures.org |
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Arbiter.x
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Location: Halo
| | Re: Ever got really sick from urban exploring? Share your horror stories
<Reply # 5 on 4/13/2009 2:07 AM >
| | | | I explored the malt plant in Toronto, and got a sore throat and the next day it developed into a full blown fever + cold..
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Steed
   
Location: Edmonton/Seoul
Gender: Male
Your Friendly Neighbourhood Race Traitor
| | | Re: Ever got really sick from urban exploring? Share your horror stories
<Reply # 6 on 4/13/2009 2:09 AM >
| | | | Whenever I go near an abandoned neighbourhood, I start to wheeze from all the particles in the air. It's almost become the UE version of a spidey-sense, but still kind of freaks me out. I don't wear respirators because these places are in high-density areas and thousands of people are exposed to the same thing on a daily basis.
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Stewie
Location: Hamilton, Ontario
Gender: Male
kill your idols
| | | Re: Ever got really sick from urban exploring? Share your horror stories
<Reply # 7 on 4/13/2009 3:21 AM >
| | | | Not really aside from minor coughing or dizzyness at some different places, possibly related or unrelated. For the most part this man was built for places off-limits.
> The hierarchy of power dictates that the person with the most power does the least amount of work and retains the highest benefit. |
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Wiccan
Location: Hamilton Ontario
Gender: Female
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<Reply # 8 on 4/13/2009 3:53 AM >
| | | | I felt sick for a few days after checking out this shithole;
http://www.uer.ca/...ow.asp?locid=25071
The mold was so bad in the basement,I was coughing and nauseated.
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Stewie
Location: Hamilton, Ontario
Gender: Male
kill your idols
| | | Re: Ever got really sick from urban exploring? Share your horror stories
<Reply # 9 on 4/13/2009 6:05 AM >
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Hopefully the Lowe's that replaced it doesn't suffer the same problems.
> The hierarchy of power dictates that the person with the most power does the least amount of work and retains the highest benefit. |
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geoff5093
Location: New Hampshire
Gender: Male
| | Re: Ever got really sick from urban exploring? Share your horror stories
<Reply # 10 on 4/13/2009 11:25 AM >
| | | | I had a severe stomach bug and the next day my throat killed, I thought it was from draining the day before but later on I heard that lots of other people had the same thing so luckily it wasn't due to the mold.
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willskith
Location: Boston, MA
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: Ever got really sick from urban exploring? Share your horror stories
<Reply # 11 on 4/13/2009 1:52 PM >
| | | | There was a boarded door blocking my way in a tunnel, so I pulled the entire frame out of the rotten cement foundation. The amount of dust and asbestos it let loose had me coughing up all sorts of nasty shit and feeling like death for a good week or so.
grit your teeth in the face of fear. self repression is the true sign of a coward, toss your inhibitions to the wind. |
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Axle
Location: Milton, ON
Gender: Male
Sieg oder Tod
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<Reply # 12 on 4/13/2009 7:35 PM >
| | | | I got a massive headache after exploring Photech. It didn't manifest until the next day, when I had to drive back to Canada.
Celer at Audax
Para la Victoria Siempre Alemanes! |
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\/adder
Location: DunkarooLand
Gender: Male
I'm the worst of the best but I'm in this race.
| | | Re: Ever got really sick from urban exploring? Share your horror stories
<Reply # 13 on 4/13/2009 9:43 PM >
| | | | 
Coughing up blood in your sleep is always fun.
"No risk, no reward, no fun."
"Go all the way or walk away"
escensi omnis... |
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Samurai
Vehicular Lord Rick
Location: northeastern New York
No matter where you go, there you are...
| | Re: Ever got really sick from urban exploring? Share your horror stories
<Reply # 14 on 4/14/2009 2:44 PM >
| | | | Posted by dynastar666
After exploring a superfund site full of lead, arsenic and methyl-ethyl-bad-shit I felt pretty sick for a few days.
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Dukes got pretty ill a few years ago after finding the lab at national lead in Tahawus. It lasted a couple of weeks. I think Skelly might remember that. I don't think that Dukes even knew what caused it or what it as all about.
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spirit730
Location: ON
Gender: Female
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<Reply # 15 on 4/14/2009 8:26 PM >
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Seriously? Shit..........
You and me will all go down in history, with a sad Statue of Liberty, and a generation that didn't agree.
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\/adder
Location: DunkarooLand
Gender: Male
I'm the worst of the best but I'm in this race.
| | | Re: Ever got really sick from urban exploring? Share your horror stories
<Reply # 16 on 4/15/2009 12:28 AM >
| | | | Posted by spirit730
Seriously? Shit..........
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I'm still not sure what caused it.
I didn't drink that much; and nothing that day. I went into two hospitals without a respirator before then. I didn't go anywhere that bad. But I did feel really sick before I passed out that night. It wasn't a nosebleed because I woke up with a horrible metallic-key taste in my mouth and normally if you get a nosebleed in your sleep it'll leave dry blood in your nostrils, which I didn't have. I had a horrible cough for the week after. It might have just been my lack of prior exercise, poor diet, and the rainy raw weather ... I'm thinking I might have caught pneumonia that cleared itself up.
"No risk, no reward, no fun."
"Go all the way or walk away"
escensi omnis... |
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alphie
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<Reply # 17 on 4/15/2009 3:49 AM >
| | | | I'm highly allergic to mold and dust so I always have to carry my rescue inhaler just in case. Just this last Saturday I had to use it while exploring. I've gotten a few scrapes and bruises while climbing but nothing too big.
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KingKong
Location: Pittsburgh PA / Rochester NY
Gender: Male
Insert artistic / badass sounding phrase here.
| | | Re: Ever got really sick from urban exploring? Share your horror stories
<Reply # 18 on 4/15/2009 10:32 PM >
| | | | I got a really bad sinus infection after exploring an underground conveyor system in Rankin a few months ago. I was blowing snot rockets for about two weeks afterwards, and I was the only one in our group to get it.
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Sand
Location: Pac South
Everything interesting is always behind a fence.
| | Re: Ever got really sick from urban exploring? Share your horror stories
<Reply # 19 on 4/16/2009 5:54 AM >
| | | | I went into an abandoned theater and had to crawl on the floor underneath asbestos wrapped pipes near the entrance. Not only that but I had not planned very well, wore sandals, and while I had a respirator, the sandals were not smart at all. I had red hives or splotches when I got home. Not sure if that was from pigeon crap in the air (the place was covered in it) or from the asbestos fibers.
You live and learn.
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