i almost got arrested today.

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i broke into a decaying trashed school that hadnt been used in decades and took a roll of photos. old furniture, washrooms classrooms, a gymnasium that smelt like piss.
a whole room where the walls were the nursey room georgy porgy were scrawled on the walks with chalk, some of the rooms make shift bedrooms, broken glass everywhere, exposed wires, the fire hose laid thorought the corridors, a door to the roof where i could see all of downtown, things written on black boards, this genral decay-and
it was sad and wonderful at the same time
and then the cops showed up and took our names, addresses, phone no.s told us to leave one was in in denim and one in uniform.

what was really interesting was how something so modern (it was built in the early 60s) could turn so quickly into a relic, and i wondered why it was abonded(sp) when so many of that era and earlier are kept.

― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 05:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I really fucking hate it it's still considered "trespassing" to go where no one goes. I mean I know in terms of liability and whatnot they gotta keep ya out, but other than that, why? Because you might appreciate something no one appreciates?

Glad you got to see this place Anthony, it sounds really neat. I used to sneak in to tons of places back before I was legal. The night in the cemetary cured that, though.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 11 June 2003 05:19 (twenty-two years ago)

i always suspect you were of the undead, hstencil

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 05:21 (twenty-two years ago)

^present tense to past tense

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 05:22 (twenty-two years ago)

nope, but that experience almost made me one of the breed of living dead known as "felon."

― hstencil, Wednesday, 11 June 2003 05:23 (twenty-two years ago)

This place sounds great, really interesting, sad that you got kicked out tho.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 08:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Last saturday, I was with a bunch of people who squatted an old tram hall which hasn't been used for over a year (the rent the city is asking for it is too high, 15000 Euros a month, no one's interested in it). We wanted to turn it into an autonomous culture/social centre. Yesterday, the police threw us out. We had already planned a programme for the whole week (gigs, movies, theatre etc.). What a shame.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 09:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyone else here ever been to that mammoth, decaying central train station in Detroit? I went a few years ago, and it was fairly well-trafficked for an illegal site. Wish'd I'd brought my camera.

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been by there, haven't been inside it if that's what you mean.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

My running joke is that art students at CCS (the local art school) can't graduate unless they take pictures of the train station.

Several years ago, some friends and I went into an abandoned office building (Nicole, by the Coney Islands on Michigan). There were HUGE piles of clothing that the homeless had collected... really bizarre. Then we accidentally came across a homeless man, who said "I'm clean" thinking we were the cops (our flashlight and all). But, in our 4am drunken stupor, we thought he said, "I'm gonna clean you!!!" and we ran out like little kids. Good times.

This is one of my favorite sites about Detroit: http://detroityes.com

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

My running joke is that art students at CCS (the local art school) can't graduate unless they take pictures of the train station.

Ha ha, this is so true! And it seems like every year in the Metro Times photo contest they have to have at least one picture of the train station there too.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Matt "I did c*caine off the alt*r of an abandoned ch*rch" Coastaltown to thread.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

reasons it might be illegal to tresspass in certain places: people could live there and set dangerous fires dump bodies; take people there to beat up, torture, or rape unseen; further vandalize and destroy the property.

Most people don't break into abandonded buildings just to "appreciate" them.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

So, I just went to Oxford Rail Station to unlock my bike.

As soon as I'm up the steps, I see what I think is she, pull out my key, and trip horrendously on a kerb. Key flies from hand and out of sight. I am totally aware at the time how absurd and cinematic and stupid this all is - I half expect it to turn up in someone's laundry or something.

I spend five minutes looking for the key, but I can't find it because I don't have my glasses, and cos it's pretty dark out. While I'm doing this I also realise that I have no idea where my bike is, so figuring it might have been stolen (I've already had a bike nicked from there before) I go looking for it in the racks. This is also hard, 'cos blah blah blind blah blah useless, but I find it after a few minutes, and then I go back to looking for the damn key.

At which point, the guard comes up, and starts asking me what the hell I'm doing, and when I explain he's all "do you think I'm blind or stupid, I've been watching you". And apparently I've been rattling locks (!?) and there've been complaints and stuff. Anyway, I'm all polite and tell him I'm glad he's doing a good job etc, and we agree manfully that I'm going to leave right fucking now or he's going to call the police.

So yeah. I have no idea if this is the right thread, but I'm all shaken up, like, and kinda had to post this.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 24 September 2004 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Post other BRUSHES WITH THE MAN!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 24 September 2004 22:14 (twenty-one years ago)

today i was unloading a gazillion boxes out of my car today and i was parked in a commercial loading area. the meter maid told me she wasn't going to give me a ticket, but the next guy by might.

alright, not that exciting

― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 24 September 2004 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

last week my girlfriend (with me in the car) was pulled over by a secret service agent for running a red light near the world bank in dc.

a. since when are secret service agents doing traffic detail?
b. why did that fucker give my gf a warning and a wink?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 24 September 2004 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

he was hoping it was gonna turn into that scene from Super Troopers with the german speeders

grab yr feather mookie

― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 24 September 2004 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

shit, unlucky gregory, will you get yr bike back?

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 24 September 2004 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

asbestos may have warranted the school's closure.

― The TAO that can be Posted is not the TAO! (The Tao that can be Posted is), Friday, 24 September 2004 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Thats fucking cool. i love abandoned places. Buffalo NY has a great, high rise tower of a train station, cool old architecture, a landmark but abandoned. It's also highly trafficked by people for an illegal place. They actually opened it for an official art show recently. Wish i could have gone. I used to check out lots of those in Utica NY too. Did an art show in one. It had an old half flooded bank vault in the basement- with the giant circular steel vault door a foot thick. Echoey and spooky.

For other modern relics, see abandoned malls. www.deadmalls.com

― Queen Electric Butt Prober BZZT! BZZZT!!! (Queen Electric Butt Prober BZZ), Friday, 24 September 2004 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

there was a crazy abandoned mental hospital outside of cleveland that people used to explore in when i was in high school. it was extremely poorly secured.

― lauren (laurenp), Saturday, 25 September 2004 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I was at an intersection last week and a police cruiser pulled up next to me. I'm pretty sure they looked at me for a moment.

― Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 25 September 2004 00:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Did you play it cool, bro?

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 25 September 2004 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

one time when i was 13, i went to visit my brother in college at Santa Cruz. we went riding bikes and at one point we rode on the sidewalk (which i guess is a no no?). my brother saw a cop and was afraid he was gonna come up to us, so handed me his baggie of weed because he'd been caught before and i was a minor. what a fucker.

― JaXoN (JasonD), Saturday, 25 September 2004 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

This one time "J" and "P" and "I" were BB behind a REF and two RIPD cars came to arrest us for (we presume) TCF, but we were too quick and ran back to "J"s house T on the way home and D across the road at 3AM.

― {Sand in the [vaseline} on the lens] (x Jeremy), Saturday, 25 September 2004 01:29 (twenty-one years ago)

did you C on his T's?

― JaXoN (JasonD), Saturday, 25 September 2004 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)

N, U.

― {Sand in the [vaseline} on the lens] (x Jeremy), Saturday, 25 September 2004 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

This one time "Jeffrey" and "Patrick" and "Inigo" were Bare-Backing behind a REFeree and two Rhode Island Police Dept cars came to arrest us for (we presume) Total Cock-Fucking, but we were too quick and ran back to "Jason'"s house Totally on the way home and Danced across the road at 3AM.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Saturday, 25 September 2004 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Sssh!!! Or they'll be O to M! And then, DP I'm gonna K you in the G until your P turns O.

― {Sand in the [vaseline} on the lens] (x Jeremy), Saturday, 25 September 2004 01:42 (twenty-one years ago)

i'll field that one....

o to m is a mystery to me, but it would be good to hear other suggestions- out to mate perhaps?

kick you in the groin til your piss turns orange.

i'm absurdly proud of that...

― darraghmac, Saturday, 25 September 2004 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)

what happened here?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 25 September 2004 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

As W you S B!

― {Sand in the [vaseline} on the lens] (x Jeremy), Saturday, 25 September 2004 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I did play it cool, cuz the motherfuckers could have found some incriminating shit in my car.

― Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 25 September 2004 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

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