by Pascal C. Photography
When Al Gore supposedly invented the internet (or so, he claims….), he had no idea of the impact it would have on the Urbex community.
Nowadays, mainly because of the advent of the world wide web, the modes of Urbex information transmission have been turned upside down.
For better, and for worse. Continue reading “Urbex and the World Wide Web”
As bizarre as this may sound, in most places, there is some protection (albeit limited) for Urbexers if they get injured while in the act.
Hence, site owners can typically be liable to trespassers “if they willfully injured a person” or, and this is important, “knew or should have known about the presence of frequent trespassers and kept their site in unsafe condition“.
In order to limit their civil responsibility then, abandoned building proprietors will sometimes use the service of private security guards to keep Urbexers (a.k.a potential liability) at bay.
Continue reading “Legal Aid III : Security Guards”
I like old cemeteries and graveyards.
And it’s not ONLY because I am a gloom and doom person.
I love graveyards, really I do. To some, it might sound morbid, but to me, there’s nothing dark about the natural cycles of life. Somehow, death reminds me how alive I am. Continue reading “Cemetery Exploration (CemEx)”
In a world of web-based instantaneous connection, politically correct outrage has become the norm. People have nothing new to say, but they are now much louder about it, using every channel at their disposal ! Anything remotely out of the norm has become an easy target for the political correctness police.
Thus, as a potentially dangerous activity (see here) hovering on the fringes of legality (see here), it is no surprise that Urbex is a big no-no for so many folks out there.
Continue reading “Urbex : social trespass?”
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