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Aran
Location: Kansas City Gender: Male Total Likes: 1848 likes
Huh. I guess covid made me a trendsetter.
| | | Re: Worst/dumbest decisions that turned out OK < Reply # 1 on 12/27/2017 6:17 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Back in my early days of exploring, I was checking out a partially demolished section of a paper mill. I wanted to climb one of the taller sections, but the only entrance was a floor up, and only reachable by crossing a partially demolished section of the building. Said section was missing two walls and multiple load bearing beams. I should not have walked across that section's rooftop, and yet I did, and it turned out okay. That being said, I made a lot of questionable decisions at that mill, and the consequences taught me to be a far more cautious explorer than I started out as.
| "Sorry, I didn't know I'm not supposed to be here," he said, knowing full well he wasn't supposed to be there. |
| Steed
Location: Edmonton/Seoul Gender: Male Total Likes: 2663 likes
Your Friendly Neighbourhood Race Traitor
| | | | Re: Worst/dumbest decisions that turned out OK < Reply # 2 on 12/27/2017 7:50 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | This happened at this location. Basically a half-dozen medium-rise apartments, maybe 5 or 6 storeys tall, with multiple stairwells for each building. An artist used to live here so she created an open house event and invited people to wander around, as well as offering various other activities. They found a couple abandoned bowling balls, so a bowling lane was set up on the roof of one apartment. There were no abandoned pins so they used water bottles instead, and the alley was marked by tape. Weird, but not a bad or dumb decision. Anyway, one of the two stairwells up to the roof of this building had been flooded and the water had frozen, so we had to take the other stairway up. So I decided to take the iced stairway on my way down. The stairs were frozen perfectly over in a 45-degree waterfall, so the only way to do it was to slide down each landing at a time. Each time I did so, I smacked into the bottom wall with a loud noise. What I saw of the flooding, how it had overflowed into apartments and frozen that way, was impressive. Getting over this mattress was scary. On my way down I discovered a group of artists were standing below me and starting to wonder what I was doing and if I was okay. I slid out at the bottom to applause. This is how the exit looked. Wish I could find the video someone made of it.
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| Dee Ashley
Location: DFW, Texas Gender: Female Total Likes: 1378 likes
Write something and wait expectantly.
| | | | Re: Worst/dumbest decisions that turned out OK < Reply # 8 on 1/12/2018 3:46 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Steed This happened at this location. Basically a half-dozen medium-rise apartments, maybe 5 or 6 storeys tall, with multiple stairwells for each building. An artist used to live here so she created an open house event and invited people to wander around, as well as offering various other activities. They found a couple abandoned bowling balls, so a bowling lane was set up on the roof of one apartment. There were no abandoned pins so they used water bottles instead, and the alley was marked by tape. http://daehanminde...0100307okin/73.jpg Weird, but not a bad or dumb decision. Anyway, one of the two stairwells up to the roof of this building had been flooded and the water had frozen, so we had to take the other stairway up. So I decided to take the iced stairway on my way down. The stairs were frozen perfectly over in a 45-degree waterfall, so the only way to do it was to slide down each landing at a time. Each time I did so, I smacked into the bottom wall with a loud noise. http://daehanminde...00313deldge/69.jpg What I saw of the flooding, how it had overflowed into apartments and frozen that way, was impressive. http://daehanminde...00313deldge/68.jpg Getting over this mattress was scary. http://daehanminde...00313deldge/84.jpg On my way down I discovered a group of artists were standing below me and starting to wonder what I was doing and if I was okay. I slid out at the bottom to applause. This is how the exit looked. http://daehanminde...0100307okin/77.jpg Wish I could find the video someone made of it.
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What a trip! These are the moments that remind me why I love this stuff. I love seeing things that should never happen or is an exceedingly rare occurrence. This would definitely qualify!
| I wandered till the stars went dim. |
| EsseXploreR
Location: New Jersey Gender: Male Total Likes: 1172 likes
| | | | Re: Worst/dumbest decisions that turned out OK < Reply # 9 on 1/12/2018 10:16 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Okay, so as usual I can't really go into too much detail about this for a little while. But let me see if I can tiptoe around enough while still making this worth the read. So we get to this place that many people have shot before. It's one of those "Holy shit, how can that be empty? It's incredible. We have to go" places. A good amount of people who posted it commented that they got permission when people were asking. We didn't have permission, but we were there. So we figured fuck it. Let's take a look around. Walking around the place, we didn't see anything forced open. And the other thing about this place is that it seems wildly unlikely that the place would just be sitting there with no active alarm system. But wouldn't ya know it, we came around the corner and saw a way in. Not the type of way in you could just walk right in through, but nothing that required any sort of force or damage. I was the only one in the group that thought the place didn't have an alarm. The one friend I was with was pretty sure it did, but they threw caution to the wind and went for it. I helped them get to the entrance and then my other friend and I walked over to a set of doors we were hoping would open from the inside. A brief moment later the door popped open, and we were in. The doorway led to the basement, which was large and mazelike. It wasn't too long before we got upstairs though. Cautiously we crept out from the basement door and into a first floor corridor. It was stunning. My flashlight beam danced across the lavishly decorated building, eventually landing inside a former ballroom. The room was absolutely unbelievable. I got to enjoy the sight for about a quarter second. Sure enough my friends were correct, and the building did have an alarm system. An audible alarm system. A loud, audible alarm system. You know those corny alarms they have in movies? The ones that start saying things like "INTRUDER ALART!! INTRUDER ALERT!!" Apparently they actually exist, who'd have thought. We couldn't make out what was being said, half because of the echo as the sound thundered throughout the building, and half because we may have actually been running faster than the speed of sound. I'm not totally sure. The person who went into the building first quickly led us back to the door we came through. We all scrambled out and shut it behind us. Still moving quickly, we worked our way toward the street. Little did we know we were actually bee-lining it right to the home of the property's custodian. Red faced and out of breath, and just seconds from the freedom of the public road, we were stopped by the person as they were leaving their home. "Hey......" they said, in a tone more curious than accusatory. "Hi! How are you doing today?" I quickly responded, doing my best to not sound like I was in a full sprint just a few moments prior. "I'm fine, were you over near _______?" "Oh no, we were just taking photos of ______ [tranquil landscape features], why?" "Well you're on private property, the burglar alarms at _______ are going nuts. The police are on their way to scan the property. You better get out of here now" We didn't need any further incentive. By the time we crossed the street we saw two police cars in and around the property. Then another. Then another. Casually we doubled back to the car and got in. I couldn't tell you why they never said anything to us, but I'll never forget that experience. It's a top 3 memory for sure, and I'd say it qualifies for this thread.
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