Urbex Debate #4: Even More Unpopular Opinions

Dick Riders vs Grifters Whether you call it dick riding or swaggerjacking, it's part of the culture and it's fine. Same thing as the alleged "Flavor of the Month Club", it's all about trying to see these places before they're gone, and the best way to do that is for everyone to go at the same time. The only reason you see a problem here is because you've been indoctrinated that sharing spots is bad, and to glorify making people redo your research. Not all of us have the resources, or the reliable people to go with, to waste on…

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Urbex Debate #1: The Responses No One Asked For

What do you think of making entry to a place? I would never do it. There's really no question about that, both from a practical point of view, and legally. First off, it's a whole other level of charges in New York if you break and enter. It takes the legal liability up from a ticket (that usually requires the property owner to be there to press charges) to a misdemeanor and the risk of being arrested at the spot. Then just practically, even if the legal risk wasn't so much greater, I'd rather not be carrying tools around everywhere,…

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Patterns That Can Scarcely Be Controlled

1. Parkway Hospital, Queens 2. Forest Hills trash hospital 3. Tryon State School 4. Fownes factory, Amsterdam 5. Glenville elementary school 6. St. Ann's convent, Buffalo 7. "Epic Church", Buffalo 8. The Hall Of, Niagara Falls 9. Carborundum/Globar factory, Niagara Falls 10. Air Force radar station 763, Niagara county 11. Akron gypsum mines/caves 12. KMart corporate headquarters, Troy MI 13. Wilkens Elementary, Detroit 14. Grand Blvd Methodist Church, Detroit 15. St. Margaret Mary church, Detroit 16. St. Margaret Mary school, Detroit 17. Schoenherr drain, Macomb MI 18. NAWCAD power station, Trenton 19. Naval jet testing facility, Trenton 20. Imani Church,…

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And So We Go Through The Great Unknown

Well that was a year, wasn't it? Nothing but uncertainty from one week to the next, to the point that I always felt like I was a week or two away from the next covid lockdown and cultivating a textbook case of languishing pandemic fatigue. From the very first time ei broke me out in May to seeing four asylums in a weekend right before Christmas, it's been nothing but a wild and relentless ride through the levels; unpredictable, but somehow always upward. Meme-tier shitholes, flavors of the month that might have gone a bit sour, mansions too intact for…

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One Missed Calling

July 6-7, 2019 At sea, somewhere south of Burgeo, Newfoundland Sometimes, a mind just has to get away. Not just from the same familiar places, but from the same circular thoughts, the ways of thinking and being we all fall into. It’s a human necessity to have a place we can’t be reached or found, a place to reset from the world and the routine. For me, this happens to be a ferry from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland, on a vacation with my parents, (planned and assembled by confederation and delegation – we’re each in charge of different parts, and…

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