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 chemical_dream
Location: san antonio
 |  | highway traffic sign structures
< on 8/30/2011 12:55 AM >
|  | | | anyone ever climb any of these just for fun? i'm thinking about it when there's fewer traffic, looks a decent amount of safe no? i want to get on one to grab some cool pics if i can be stealthy enough
[last edit 8/30/2011 12:59 AM by chemical_dream - edited 3 times]
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Speed
   
Location: Philly area
Gender: Male
Retired Explorer
| | Re: highway traffic sign structures
<Reply # 1 on 8/30/2011 12:59 AM >
| | | | writers do it all the time to drop bombs
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chemical_dream
Location: san antonio
| | Re: highway traffic sign structures
<Reply # 2 on 8/30/2011 1:07 AM >
| | | | yea i see em here n there, i just haven't seen any actual pics FROM the pov- looks like i got some homework!
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Captain_Slow
   
The infamous Buttram Manfist
Location: Dallas, Tx
Gender: Male
Obviously capable of mediocre things.
| | Re: highway traffic sign structures
<Reply # 3 on 8/30/2011 4:19 AM >
| | | | I say if you're limber it'll probably be a pretty dang easy climb though. But try not to fall in front of a semi going 75, and god help you should a cop drive past.
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Crypton
Gender: Male
| | Re: highway traffic sign structures
<Reply # 5 on 8/31/2011 12:07 AM >
| | | | I would probably not do it. It is risky and stupid. Plus it is very distracting. Oh and on federal land, etc. etc.
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Mr_Fiend
Location: Tulsa, OK
Gender: Male
Infiltration Expert...
| |  | Re: highway traffic sign structures
<Reply # 6 on 8/31/2011 1:55 AM >
| | | | Climb it for what kind of shot exactly? If you're wanting a perspective above the highway, why not find an over pass? Also, don't get caught, hi po's are dicks 90% of the time.
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| | Re: highway traffic sign structures
<Reply # 7 on 9/2/2011 8:37 PM >
| | | | Posted by Mr_Fiend
Climb it for what kind of shot exactly? If you're wanting a perspective above the highway, why not find an over pass? Also, don't get caught, hi po's are dicks 90% of the time.
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Yeah really. They aren't design to be scaled, and if you fall, something will get broke or worse.
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Price
Location: Houston,TX
Gender: Male
Urbex: Keeping record of things most people have forgotten.
| | Re: highway traffic sign structures
<Reply # 8 on 9/2/2011 9:15 PM >
| | | | just go on the roof of a hotel/building.
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chemical_dream
Location: san antonio
| | Re: highway traffic sign structures
<Reply # 9 on 9/3/2011 4:04 AM >
| | | | thanks guys, now i'm second guessing if it's even such a great idea..
that night i just ended up going downtown and took some neat pics off a really high garage, it was nice but eh, looking for something with more of a little thrill... only fire escape ladders i saw were in plain view of the streets so prob gonna save that for some other time-
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Astro
 
Usually naked
Location: The Delta Quadrant
Gender: Male
Resistance is Futile
| | Re: highway traffic sign structures
<Reply # 10 on 9/3/2011 5:17 AM >
| | | | Posted by chemical_dream
thanks guys, now i'm second guessing if it's even such a great idea..
that night i just ended up going downtown and took some neat pics off a really high garage, it was nice but eh, looking for something with more of a little thrill... only fire escape ladders i saw were in plain view of the streets so prob gonna save that for some other time-
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Wear a hardhat and an orange pennyvest, no one will know the different. You know, except your lack of a construction truck. ;)
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kDick91
Location: Colorado/Texas
Gender: Male
| | Re: highway traffic sign structures
<Reply # 11 on 9/3/2011 7:00 AM >
| | | | Posted by AstroBerkman17
Wear a hardhat and an orange pennyvest, no one will know the different. You know, except your lack of a construction truck. ;)
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That idea is actually super good. The cops are never told what service work is going on... It'd fool me haha
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IIVQ
  
Location: La Sud-Est du cité majeur du North-Holland (Bijlmer), .NL
Gender: Male
Back in Urbex!
| |  |  | | Re: highway traffic sign structures
<Reply # 12 on 9/3/2011 7:39 AM >
| | | | Wait, what? Are we suddenly all not doing objects because "it's risky", "it's stupid" and "the view isn't that good"?
Where is that exploring spirit? I know, if something is too risky, too stupid or too bad a view, you should think twice, but I think that the fun alone of saying "I was on top of there" everytime you drive under one is worth the climb!
Tijmen
P.S. I was once on one of those which was on the side of the road ... not one that overhangs the road.
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chemical_dream
Location: san antonio
| | Re: highway traffic sign structures
<Reply # 13 on 9/3/2011 8:09 AM >
| | | | Posted by IIVQ
Wait, what? Are we suddenly all not doing objects because "it's risky", "it's stupid" and "the view isn't that good"?
Where is that exploring spirit? I know, if something is too risky, too stupid or too bad a view, you should think twice, but I think that the fun alone of saying "I was on top of there" everytime you drive under one is worth the climb!
Tijmen
P.S. I was once on one of those which was on the side of the road ... not one that overhangs the road.
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that was my initial thinking!
but i've just starting out i figured you guys know better than i do
i got butterflies from just the thought of climbing up one
this weekend i plan on doing some other fun spots, who knows i might be able to squeeze it in... i'm a limber guy and wouldn't mind testing the sturdiness as i climb to the top of one- so but- i don't know we'll see
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blacklines
Location: the red stick.
Gender: Male
| | Re: highway traffic sign structures
<Reply # 14 on 9/3/2011 4:22 PM >
| | | | Posted by IIVQ
Wait, what? Are we suddenly all not doing objects because "it's risky", "it's stupid" and "the view isn't that good"?
Where is that exploring spirit? I know, if something is too risky, too stupid or too bad a view, you should think twice, but I think that the fun alone of saying "I was on top of there" everytime you drive under one is worth the climb!
Tijmen
P.S. I was once on one of those which was on the side of the road ... not one that overhangs the road.
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^^This
I think its hilarious that people feel the need to point out that climbing something like this is risky. NO SHIT. its tall. it hangs out over a busy road. its illegal. These are things that are obvious. I can understand wanting to warn people about hidden dangers (H2S in a sewer, RF radiation on certain kinds of towers) because these things arent immediately apparent. This is just silly. What we do is risky, some of us take more risk than others, but all of us (should) have the common sense to know a blatant risk when we see one and from there, its really up to the individual.
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Astro
Usually naked
Location: The Delta Quadrant
Gender: Male
Resistance is Futile
| | Re: highway traffic sign structures
<Reply # 15 on 9/3/2011 5:06 PM >
| | | | Posted by kDick91
That idea is actually super good. The cops are never told what service work is going on... It'd fool me haha
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Since I work in construction, I know its a good idea. I use my hard had and penny vest to get through traffic at a detour too. ;) "What're you doing?" "I need to talk to the supervisor about some parts he ordered for the excavators"
[02:33:56] <Valkyre> Astro your whole life is ruled by the sentence ' life is better without clothes on'
[22:16:00] <DSomms> it was normal until astro got here
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Astro
Usually naked
Location: The Delta Quadrant
Gender: Male
Resistance is Futile
| | Re: highway traffic sign structures
<Reply # 16 on 9/3/2011 5:17 PM >
| | | | And that being said, if you want to do it, then go do it and stop sitting around assessing the what ifs. Exactly what law says not to climb into the street sign? I'm sure there is one, but meh. If you are second guessing yourself, then...don't climb it. The last thing you need to do is make yourself look suspicious by lolligagging around. Someone what is from the area would most likely not even take note to anyone being on the sign. I mean really, do you look at all the street signs on the freeway when you know your destination? I don't.
If you get caught, you get caught. Oh well. That's the tricks of this trade. Get up, take your pictures in a timely manner and get down.
[02:33:56] <Valkyre> Astro your whole life is ruled by the sentence ' life is better without clothes on'
[22:16:00] <DSomms> it was normal until astro got here
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Raticus
Moderator
Location: Tyler
Gender: Male
Ratus exploricus abandonae
| | Re: highway traffic sign structures
<Reply # 17 on 9/3/2011 5:58 PM >
| | | | Posted by blacklines
^^This
I think its hilarious that people feel the need to point out that climbing something like this is risky. NO SHIT. its tall. it hangs out over a busy road. its illegal. These are things that are obvious. I can understand wanting to warn people about hidden dangers (H2S in a sewer, RF radiation on certain kinds of towers) because these things arent immediately apparent. This is just silly. What we do is risky, some of us take more risk than others, but all of us (should) have the common sense to know a blatant risk when we see one and from there, its really up to the individual.
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As much as I want to disagree with you, the truth is I can't. There's no way on God's green earth that I would do some of the things I've seen on here. I'm usually one of the first to jump in try to at least get people to think about what they are going to do. But honestly, yeah, it's up to the individual.
Only problem with that is, when the individual does something that ends with a monumentally bad accident, it brings a lot more public negativity and scrutiny to what we do. In my opinion climbing on a road sign in the middle of a highway is NOT the most dangerous things you could do, but it's by no means the SMARTEST thing you could do. It is like waving a red flag saying "Oh please come arrest me, I have nothing better to do than spend my night in jail". IMHO
Posted by AstroBerkman17
If you are second guessing yourself, then...don't climb it. The last thing you need to do is make yourself look suspicious by lolligagging around.
If you get caught, you get caught. Oh well. That's the tricks of this trade. Get up, take your pictures in a timely manner and get down.
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Yeah. I agree with this too.
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Captain_Slow
The infamous Buttram Manfist
Location: Dallas, Tx
Gender: Male
Obviously capable of mediocre things.
| | Re: highway traffic sign structures
<Reply # 18 on 9/3/2011 7:35 PM >
| | | | Posted by IIVQ
Wait, what? Are we suddenly all not doing objects because "it's risky", "it's stupid" and "the view isn't that good"?
Where is that exploring spirit? I know, if something is too risky, too stupid or too bad a view, you should think twice, but I think that the fun alone of saying "I was on top of there" everytime you drive under one is worth the climb!
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I don't give a flying fuck if this kid goes and climbs a highway sign, but an important distinction needs to be made here between courage or "exploring spirit" and stupidity. You need to weigh the risks and rewards of anything you want to go explore, whether it's a highway sign or an old prison or a small house. For example, as I stated earlier, that sign would be a pretty easy climb, there's plenty to grab ahold of, it's easy to get onto, and just like any other climb in an urbex setting, if you fall you're probably dead, at LEAST in critical condition. BUT, what do you REALLY stand to gain from doing it? Is it REALLY worth the risk of a fat ticket or worse, grievous injury. If that climb was standing in between me and something really tempting, like a big abandonment or a sweet drain, then yes, I'd be willing to go through with the climb. But for the sign itself? For a few pictures and bragging rights on a highway sign? No, I can't justify it, but if this kid can, more power to him and I hope he doesn't get hurt.
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Lambda
Location: Rhode Island
Gender: Male
| | Re: highway traffic sign structures
<Reply # 19 on 9/3/2011 8:30 PM >
| | | | Posted by AstroBerkman17
Exactly what law says not to climb into the street sign?
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"And the Lord said, Thou shalt not climbth thy street signs"
Seriously, though, it probably falls under general no-trespassing laws. The thing about these signs is that when you're up there, there's cars going underneath you and everybody and his grandma can see you up there. The orange vest and hardhat might dispel some suspicion, but personally, I wouldn't bother with it.
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