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So I had this really cool object, 400ft disused factory chimney, single outside ladder straight up. Bottom of the ladder chopped off about 10 or 12ft up, no big deal to get to using some stuff lying around the place, security patrol once or twice a day, otherwise it was a deserted, unwatched industrial wasteland. This was like a special treat jump, didn't do it much because the climb was such a mindfuck but the jump was that much sweeter for it. This was one to savour, the feeling the moment my feet left the object first time I jumped it is still the absolute epitome of slider down BASE for me

So I turn up today after a few months away wanting to reconnect with an old friend, walk up across the fields to the back fence, there's a tiny bit of extra fencing that wasn't there last time but still a gap to squeeze through where it joins the woods. Walk over to where the pile of pallets I use as a step ladder are, most of them have been broken up but there's still a useable one, cool. Then look at the base of the chimney...

Fucking ladder's gone. Nothing but a few rust stained stanchion holes every few yards until the new bottom of the ladder, 50 feet up in thin air on a sheer, featureless concrete wall. Unreachable. So stand there gawping at it for a minute wondering what I'm going to do with the rest of my evening when a couple of security guards come round the corner in a Jeep, take me back to the guard house and call the police. Fuck! (Cops didn't show, just ran a background check, found nothing and called back an hour later telling security to give me a bollocking and a lift back to where I'd left the car)

So was chatting to the guards while we were waiting, trying to find out what the hell had happened to the place (as far as I know it was almost never jumped, too many easier climbs around). Turns out they used to get loads of feckin' idiots e-mailing the site manager telling him they were going to climb up it and he couldn't stop them. What the hell, man - who does that? Then, final straw, during the World Cup this summer some soccer fans climbed it during the night and hung a bloody massive great English flag from the top. Un-fucking-believable, talk about leave nothing but footprints. So down came the ladder and up came a network of IR beams, motion sensors and cameras all over the place.

The death of a great object because a couple of look-at-me wankers wanted to celebrate another bunch of overpaid wankers who lost 4-1 to Germany

They are not sports fans they are "urban explorers" AKA muppets without girlfriends.

I would put a link to the thread about the object but I don't want them earning revenue from a load of jumpers visiting their website.

This is not the 1st object they have burn but it will be one of the last.

Not that I give a fuck about them, but surely "urban explorers" are exactly the same as BASE jumpers AKA muppets without girlfriends when it comes to buildings, except they don't jump off.

Saying that you have to be an utter twat to keep emailing them saying they are going to climb it.

One thing about these "urban explorers", they produce good photographs, and 28 days later is a good website to view them.

Yeah... thing is, I'd rather be able to see the view from the top myself than be limited to looking at the photos of their fucking flag at the top because they've caused the owners to totally remove any way of accessing the damn thing.

Yeah, fair point.

We've had problems with "Urban Explorers" in our area as well. It wouldn't bother me too much if they'd just keep the damn pictures to themselves instead of blogging about them and posting them all over the web.

I hate to knock on people I dont know but as a group they dont seem that smart. I was checking out one of the forums and they have forums specifically for site naming and referencing. There is NO security or login measures to view this info either. They also openly make fun of lame security measures. I recently heard of a great object being burned because these UE's were openly talking about it on the forums which were "compromised." Well, seeing how their forums are completely open i guess by "compromised" they mean someone typed in the URL and wasnt blind.

Kind of like we BASE jumpers do all over youtube?

Im only playing devils advocate here, I think it sucks what happened to the object too. Im just saying...

+1

If you have to use YouTube click "unpublished" when you upload it so only people you send the direct link to can view it. Can't find it in searches or by browsing that persions videos... But send me all your links cuz I want to see too :p

tar and feather them.

this is what these "urban explorers" do? climb objects and thats all? if you really want to urban explore, eat a few hits of strong blotter, and go explore compton or watts and see how much fun you have. especially if you are a white boy