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| 1 2 | UER Forum > Rookie Forum > What was your biggest mistake while exploring and what did you learn (Viewed 7703 times) |
4Valhal
Location: Kansas City, KS Gender: Male Total Likes: 119 likes
| | | | Re: What was your biggest mistake while exploring and what did you learn < Reply # 10 on 2/2/2018 3:33 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I don't have any crazy stories so here is a funny one. Me, the girl, the big little bro (6'6" and 230 pounds, 22 years old ) and his girl were in the basement complex of an old hospital. The particular wing we were in was part of the mental health side (of course). While exploring we heard a rather loud bang in a room right next to us. So us two guys, being strong manly men, went to investigate. We slowly entered the room and the doorway was built in with a small turn to the left creating an area you could not see until you were fully in the room. As I entered the room a rat or small rodent bolted from the middle of that area to a hole in the wall. I jumped back and laughed as we realized it had knocked over a wall vent cover causing the bang. As for the lesson learned it wasn't until the following week when watching a scary movie that I caught myself calling the actor an idiot for investigating some bumps he had heard which led to his death. It was at that point it dawned on me that I am that idiot that goes to investigate unknown bumps
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| Aran
Location: Kansas City Gender: Male Total Likes: 1844 likes
Huh. I guess covid made me a trendsetter.
| | | Re: What was your biggest mistake while exploring and what did you learn < Reply # 14 on 2/2/2018 4:17 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by 4Valhal It was at that point it dawned on me that I am that idiot that goes to investigate unknown bumps
| I think that if real life was a horror movie, we'd all be the ones to die to the opening scene to a mysterious offscreen monster, just to introduce it to the audience. After all, we make a habit of sneaking around "haunted" buildings, drains, insane asylums, and Abandoned Factories of Doom. On a different note, my worst mistake was not knowing how to play it cool. This was not long after I first started exploring, and I was a bit of a cocky teenager at the time. After exploring an abandoned paper mill, I decided to brazenly wander through the front gates of the adjacent scrapyard because I didn't see any workers around. Well, they saw me. Then, instead of trying to talk my way out of it, I made a poorly executed attempt to hide under a pile of crushed cars, where I was promptly found. They kicked me out, tailed several blocks back to my car, and boxed me in with their trucks until they got my license plate number. Then they sent the police to my front door with accusations of "industrial espionage." I talked my way out of that police visit and even ended up shaking the hand of the responding officer, but it was still my biggest screwup.
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| Steed
Location: Edmonton/Seoul Gender: Male Total Likes: 2658 likes
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| | | | Re: What was your biggest mistake while exploring and what did you learn < Reply # 16 on 2/2/2018 6:43 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Aran
And they call themselves journalists? I already had low expectations going in because it's Vice, but that article somehow managed to go even lower. That entire article is just insulting the locals, penis jokes, and trying to sound edgy by emphasizing the "illegal" aspect of urbex. That article was the complete opposite of "professional." I can see why you consider showing them the plane a mistake.
| Note my lack of the use of the J-word. The two worst parts of the article, I thought, were: -he got the city wrong. This is absolutely not in Seoul. We took a train to get there. Not that I wanted that corrected, obviously. -he identified the POE, which was a spontaneous discovery during that visit by a friend calling it out and me doing some acrobatics. Still unsure of what the hell it was doing there, we decided to break in. It was all locked up but amazingly one of my mates managed to slip through a window, no bigger than a small cat, that had been left open on the stairwell up to the aircraft’s entry door.
| After his article went out, it put the site on the map and we started getting a flood of white English teachers from Japan visiting Korea to haikyo that shit. After a year or two of this, the property owners felt heat under their collars and had the thing demolished. I still believe his article, both through its exposure and its tone, had an influence on that decision. Also, that same day, we went back into the city and went to a punk show. The same writer wanted to do an article on Korean punk, so I introduced him to a bunch of people to interview. I also agreed to give him some of my pictures for his article, as this along with UE is kind of my thing over here. The article turned out to be a photo essay. My name appears nowhere in it.
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