>>616054cont.:
if you meet hobos (and they dont seem overly threatening), dont immediately draw your firearm or knife or whatever. show both your hands, tell them you're just taking pictures, sorry to disturb you, i will leave now, stuff like that. you might've just woken them up (and to them, you're basically burglaring into their living room - thats pretty rude).
if they seem cool, a chat can always be nice - but dont trust them.
if things go out of control, book it. dont get stabbed or something. thats why you kept in mind the nearest best exit.
>cops get calledwell fuck. in that place, if you hear them coming from a mile away, gtfo in the underbrush maybe. stfu and stay low and still, they might not bother. wait a couple of hours, then get out. dont go back in after something like this, thats just stupid.
DONT RUN FROM THE COPS if they see you. that will make you more suspicious.
if they see you, same as with the hobos, show BOTH your hands in a nonthreatening way (try not to get shot, you're in the US after all) (i hope for you you aint black) and tell them hey, you're just taking pictures. cite urbex codices like "break nothing but silence, take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints". show them the cool looking pictures you already took. try to seem harmless. thats why you dont want to dress like the strielok. pic is related. would you trust me like that?
DONT DELETE your pics when the cops show up. ESPECIALLY not when they tell you to. thats destroying evidence (of you trespassing). you dont want to do that because justice system.
dunno about the US, but over on our side of the big pond, cops wont exactly arrest you for urbexing (unless you set fire to the place or shit like that). they'll take your name maybe and tell you to gtfo outta there, because you might hurt yourself from falling debris or something. public safety is a big concern, ya know?
