wait..... i get you kids all mixed up. fixed.steamidge wrote:LIES! The second to last photo is courtesy of ME! ahhaha
This was a fantastic day though. I reckoned I may have annoyed her just a little by telling her to calm down as well haha
Love talking to the police when I know they can't get to me. 3rd time I've spoken to them through that gutter box. So edgy brahlongnecksmasher wrote:Attracting police attention, nice one, very edgy.
Oh man, it's so much fun, especially when drain entrances get locked up.Echo wrote:Love talking to the police when I know they can't get to me. 3rd time I've spoken to them through that gutter box. So edgy brahlongnecksmasher wrote:Attracting police attention, nice one, very edgy.
We didn't give her trouble lol. She came out acting really unprofessional and yelling at us and such. We left quietly shortly after. It's not like the manhole is in the middle of the road, it's on a quiet driveway. But ayy whatever you say Nick. Ya know I stopped taking most people's criticisms around here to heart a while ago.Nick wrote:Oh man, it's so much fun, especially when drain entrances get locked up.Echo wrote:Love talking to the police when I know they can't get to me. 3rd time I've spoken to them through that gutter box. So edgy brahlongnecksmasher wrote:Attracting police attention, nice one, very edgy.
That and the fact from now on, if that cop sees someone going in a drain, she'll associate it with that little s*** who gave her a hard time when he had 0 reason to other than just being an immature jerk.
Plus gotta love popping manholes from below in the day, and not giving a damn.
You're like a pin up boy for ruining it for the rest of us.
Nick wrote:Oh man, it's so much fun, especially when drain entrances get locked up.Echo wrote: Love talking to the police when I know they can't get to me. 3rd time I've spoken to them through that gutter box. So edgy brah
That and the fact from now on, if that cop sees someone going in a drain, she'll associate it with that little s*** who gave her a hard time when he had 0 reason to other than just being an immature jerk.
Plus gotta love popping manholes from below in the day, and not giving a damn.
You're like a pin up boy for ruining it for the rest of us.
Why? Some of those criticisms may be valid. Learn from others' experiences and criticisms (especially experienced explorers like Nick) and you'll go a long way.Echo wrote:We didn't give her trouble lol. She came out acting really unprofessional and yelling at us and such. We left quietly shortly after. It's not like the manhole is in the middle of the road, it's on a quiet driveway. But ayy whatever you say Nick. Ya know I stopped taking most people's criticisms around here to heart a while ago.
That video was filmed years ago. Your argument reminds me a bit of this article https://murdoch80.wordpress.com/2012/12 ... cave-clan/. Read Doug's comment. Just as the Cave Clan no longer puts massive tags up in drains, I doubt it'd engage in this kind of thing now. The public is becoming more paranoid and it's getting more difficult to engage in our hobby. Antagonising police and being laissez faire with exits just accelerates this process.Echo wrote:Can we not pretend that CC dont do the same kinda stuff, atleast regarding the gutter box things. I've seen the video of them letting fireworks and things off from that gutter box during the day.
Found it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpl93OxY5BY
I especially enjoyed the part at 2:08 where the woman says "you want me to call the police?" and the fully mature CC guy says "yes, ok." Just because they don't talk about it doesn't mean they don't do it.
There's no rule book to urbex. There's no rule book to life, either. There's just common sense and a sense of common decency, and the way you describe your outing demonstrates a disturbing lack of either.Echo wrote:Anyway I'm not getting into this again. I think you can like me or hate me, it wont stop me doing what I enjoy. Maybe you think there's some sort of rule book to urbex, except there isn't. Just in your head and according to CC there is and everyone has to follow it except them. If I really wanted to mess things up for others I'm sure I could do it, if you want me to just let me know.
It's not that they dont understand it's that they have a different sense of fun to us. What we see as fun they see as reckless, stupid etc etc. We'll probably see it as that as well one day. When we grow up and really think about it. At the moment, for me anyway, urbex is about rebelling against society and it's definition of normal and in that sense I must also rebel against the people who try and tell me that society actually give a f***. I know it's stupid and I know the logic is highly flawed but it's just how I see the world. For the moment anyway.steamidge wrote:Ahaha Echo They don't understand how fun it was haha
Let's be realistic though. They're never going to completely cut off access to all the good drains. Not in our lifetime anyway. I get your point though. I may be more careful in future, probably not. There'll probably be another one of these stupid stories a few months from now and you'll all be like; this mother fucker did it again, does he ever learn? Good times. Peace.Rantallion wrote:How would you guys feel if access to that drain was completely cut off, because a bunch of normies called the cops and made a fuss about people being in there?
I get you're all riddled with puberty and you want to stick it to da man, but if you let that happen, you've let da man win.
mabey you should find a forum with like minded people, as we seem to be on a different pageEcho wrote:It's not that they dont understand it's that they have a different sense of fun to us. What we see as fun they see as reckless, stupid etc etc. We'll probably see it as that as well one day. When we grow up and really think about it. At the moment, for me anyway, urbex is about rebelling against society and it's definition of normal and in that sense I must also rebel against the people who try and tell me that society actually give a f***. I know it's stupid and I know the logic is highly flawed but it's just how I see the world. For the moment anyway.steamidge wrote:Ahaha Echo They don't understand how fun it was haha
Oh, I'm not saying that all the good drains would be cut off simultaneously, because I don't think that's particularly realistic either.Echo wrote: Let's be realistic though. They're never going to completely cut off access to all the good drains. Not in our lifetime anyway. I get your point though. I may be more careful in future, probably not. There'll probably be another one of these stupid stories a few months from now and you'll all be like; this mother fucker did it again, does he ever learn? Good times. Peace.
All these flavours and you chose to be salty...Nick wrote:Oh man, it's so much fun, especially when drain entrances get locked up.Echo wrote:Love talking to the police when I know they can't get to me. 3rd time I've spoken to them through that gutter box. So edgy brahlongnecksmasher wrote:Attracting police attention, nice one, very edgy.
That and the fact from now on, if that cop sees someone going in a drain, she'll associate it with that little s*** who gave her a hard time when he had 0 reason to other than just being an immature jerk.
Plus gotta love popping manholes from below in the day, and not giving a damn.
You're like a pin up boy for ruining it for the rest of us.
lellongnecksmasher wrote:Drains in Sydney are having CCTV and sensors installed, drains in Melbourne are being dammed or blocked off forever, because of dickhead behaviour.
Pray tell which drains are been blocked off forever? The reason some Sydney drains are having CCTV installed is because they were used as access to certain sites by thieves, not urban explorers. You seem like a very angry individual.longnecksmasher wrote:Drains in Sydney are having CCTV and sensors installed, drains in Melbourne are being dammed or blocked off forever, because of dickhead behaviour.
It's difficult to block up drains completely (this would defeat their purpose) but impediments are put in place that make it more difficult. ANZAC, Tenth and even Chameleon have been dammed up and other drains (e.g. Glass Ck and soon Trinity's) have had GPTs and barriers installed). While this work wasn't explicitly to prevent entrance, frequent and conspicuous use does catalyse these things (Melbourne Water do take 'prevention of public ingress to infrastructure' into consideration) as it's two birds MW can kill with one stone.Echo wrote:Pray tell which drains are been blocked off forever? The reason some Sydney drains are having CCTV installed is because they were used as access to certain sites by thieves, not urban explorers. You seem like a very angry individual.longnecksmasher wrote:Drains in Sydney are having CCTV and sensors installed, drains in Melbourne are being dammed or blocked off forever, because of dickhead behaviour.