The Time you Ran Into Someone While Exploring:

Nick · 01 Jun 2013, 10:33 am

Here are mine:

Nick wrote: A while ago, I was exploring an abandoned river cruise boat on the Yarra,

A mate jumped onto the deck of the first boat, followed, we're then onto the second boat, tied to the first, and from nowhere this guy pops up and yells "What the **** are you doing, get out of my house" (this was definitely not a house, this was a burned out boat), after we left (No point being dickish to the poor guy) we were laughing so hard we almost fell over.

I must admit though, seen many squats, never actually seen anyone in them really, and I've been day & night on numerous occasions.

Nick wrote:
Midget wrote:Must have been quite a comical moment. I'm tempted to say that to explorers I come across in abandonments now.
I went through a stage of exploring in Fluro Jackets, works rather well as everyone assumes you're meant to be there, annnnnnnyway, we were exploring somewhere near'n'dear and found some kids doing graff on this building, so I had a real go at them. They assumed I was security or something, I gave them a huge telling off & went through their backpacks and removed all the spray paint & deleted all their photos. Looking back, twas a bit of a **** Move, but they didn't ever try and stop me, or ask who the hell I was or what I was doing in this abandoned building or notice the fact I was their age at the time, I hope, they stopped spray painting things after that...

We were also exploring a disused part of Melbourne Uni, and a female security guard appeared and yelled "Stop! What the hell are you doing" and without missing a beat my friend says "I'm just looking for a place too pee, you people have no working toilets here." We were laughing rather hard as we were escorted out.

Midget · 01 Jun 2013, 10:35 am

I heard voices, so I told Shoe to stop while I listened carefully. There was a crunch of glass downstairs, so I decided to head down there to take a look. I was confident that I could outrun or out-talk any security. Then I turn around to signal Shoe and I see him pick up this metal pipe a full meter or so.

I was like, "Calm the f*** down."

So we walk downstairs and it's just two kids as scared as Shoe. Seems like they were exploring Rachel Forster as well. One of them started tagging his sh*t everyone and the other started smoking. I didn't say anything, but decided to let it go seeing as it was pretty much destroyed anyways.

Nuggs · 01 Jun 2013, 12:00 pm

Have come real close.
Exploring a drain, and the local kids had set up a couch and coffee table in a chamber near the outfall.
Could still smell the dope wafting through the air after they took off. I probably scared the crap outta them!

Midget · 01 Jun 2013, 12:05 pm

What does dope smell like?

Nuggs · 01 Jun 2013, 12:50 pm

Midget wrote:What does dope smell like?

Sweet as.

binjuice · 01 Jun 2013, 8:10 pm

Nuggs wrote:
Midget wrote:What does dope smell like?
Sweet as.

yes it does.

lehct_ · 01 Jun 2013, 10:50 pm

Ran into some graffers at an abandonment once, they were quite concerned about our presence even though we stated our business and came to a mutual understanding... Got a few more shady looks from some of their mates who seemed on edge and we decided to get going and let them be. They didn't seem to be the 'legit artist' type that from what I have heard don't really give a s*** as long as you're not there to cause trouble.

dougo · 01 Jun 2013, 11:15 pm

Security guard...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKl2xjQ3ZA8
30 seconds

dougo · 01 Jun 2013, 11:18 pm

Girl & her mother... 3 min clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2R7QK70kuk

dougo · 01 Jun 2013, 11:23 pm

Kids through a gutter box... 2min clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEDTUOxGbdg

dougo · 01 Jun 2013, 11:31 pm

Cop hassles our drain BBQ. 1 min clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yYgs8GoPv0

dougo · 01 Jun 2013, 11:37 pm

Sorry about multiple posts.

On my phone when I try and paste a second URL it keeps pasting it at the top.

I'll fix when next on my computer

lehct_ · 01 Jun 2013, 11:53 pm

Nice vids mate

Aydun · 02 Jun 2013, 12:32 am

In checkmate walking past the 4 gutter grills with a bunch of kids above them, hear one say "what the f*ck you doing down there" another one says to the first "oi shut up k*nt" to which he replies "hey there are seven of us". Most of them seemed more concerned about the plethora of people (just me) in the tunnel.

Scarecrow · 03 Jun 2013, 9:37 pm

At Fremantle Power Station I ran into 4 separate groups, some even being from Sydney.

dougo · 03 Jun 2013, 11:00 pm

In the 14th District under Paris we bumped into 2 large groups of explorers including one French guy who was a cop trained in Adelaide - French as French Toast but when he spoke English he sounded like an Aussie.

Nick · 14 Jun 2013, 11:58 pm

Over the 3 day weekend, we did an Urbex road trip, we were at an abandoned railway station, had seen pretty much everything, then I noticed I could get under the platform, biggest number of cigarette butts I've ever seen, grabbed the camera, ventured in further, mate follows saying "Never smelt anything this bad in my life!", as our eyes adjust to the darkness I just hear "F**k off mate" (Rather calm) from the darkness, my response is "Woaaaah" and we back out laughing uncontrollably at how close I came to stepping on a squatter.

Shoe · 20 Jun 2013, 7:58 pm

Midget wrote:I heard voices, so I told Shoe to stop while I listened carefully. There was a crunch of glass downstairs, so I decided to head down there to take a look. I was confident that I could outrun or out-talk any security. Then I turn around to signal Shoe and I see him pick up this metal pipe a full meter or so. I was like, "Calm the f*** down."

So we walk downstairs and it's just two kids as scared as Shoe. Seems like they were exploring Rachel Forster as well. One of them started tagging his sh*t everyone and the other started smoking. I didn't say anything, but decided to let it go seeing as it was pretty much destroyed anyways.

I remember that and it was a plank of wood. The funny thing is, one the kids ended up climbing one of the UTS cranes with Midget and I.

Titan · 20 Jun 2013, 8:13 pm

binjuice and were the last two left at the bottom of the hill60 tunnel taking pics . . . . an old man appears out of nowhere and tells us we had nice cameras. . . . then dissapeared into the darkness lol. weirdo.

hatboy · 20 Jun 2013, 11:01 pm

Titan wrote:binjuice and were the last two left at the bottom of the hill60 tunnel taking pics . . . . an old man appears out of nowhere and tells us we had nice cameras. . . . then dissapeared into the darkness lol. weirdo.

No kidding that's weird

Scarecrow · 09 Aug 2013, 11:06 am

hatboy wrote:
Titan wrote:binjuice and were the last two left at the bottom of the hill60 tunnel taking pics . . . . an old man appears out of nowhere and tells us we had nice cameras. . . . then dissapeared into the darkness lol. weirdo.
No kidding that's weird

Sounds like something that would be in a Tim Burton movie during a dream sequence. The old man played by Johnny Depp, of course.

Spoz · 09 Aug 2013, 11:42 am

Earlier this year I ran into some parkour kids on a tall crane in the city. We had just got down from the jib and were getting ready to leave when I spot a girl stick her head up over the ladder, spot me, whisper some hurried obscenities to people behind her and then start lumbering down the stairs.

I tried to tell them it was OK a few times but they couldn’t hear over their clanging and banging as they rushed down the aluminium steps. Eventually, not wanting them to run all the way to the bottom and get the attention of security, I called out loudly “It’s ok, we’re explorers!” only to hear the noises stop and be replaced with laughter. They sheepishly came back up and introduced themselves as friends of a friend, by coincidence.

timdole · 09 Aug 2013, 1:16 pm

Was going to a site where this decommissioned telescope sits.

When I got there I noticed there was an old crappy house, and walked straight past it. Another 50m down the track there was a newer house with a rabbit hutch out the front, but no cars, so I thought 'beauty, the owners out, I'm in the clear.' As I walk towards the observatory I notice that there are power cables, which could potentially be an issue (as cameras need power). As I look back down I see this 60 year old bloke standing there. He was as surprised of me as I was of him.
I then pulled out the 'hello, am I allowed to be here or is this private property?' line (ignore the fact I'd climbed through a hole in the fence..)
I said I was a local who had a small interest in viewing stars & planets (a total lie but a believable one

) and asked if it was ok to photograph the observatory. He said yes and we then had a 30 min talk about the history of the site, who made it, and he gave me a full rundown of the security of the site. If he had a set of keys he would have let me go inside, alas. A nice location, but not somewhere I'd go back with all the cameras (you can see 3 of them in the 1 pic above) and motion detector.

Nick · 09 Aug 2013, 3:17 pm

timdole wrote: I said I was a local who had a small interest in viewing stars & planets (a total lie but a believable one ) and asked if it was ok to photograph the observatory. He said yes and we then had a 30 min talk about the history of the site, who made it, and he gave me a full rundown of the security of the site. If he had a set of keys he would have let me go inside, alas. A nice location, but not somewhere I'd go back with all the cameras (you can see 3 of them in the 1 pic above) and motion detector.

Nice, know if the actual telescope is still in there?

timdole · 10 Aug 2013, 10:56 am

There is 2, the original one that is photographed, all hand made, but too much of a pain to fix. The other one is inside a shed. The funny thing is that when they want to use this telescope, they hook up a winch and pull the shed away, and when they are done they push the shed back. The shed is literally on train tracks...