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So I like taking pictures of 'urban decay'...as does everybody else. And two weeks ago I found this AWESOME, abandoned strip mining facility about 35min outside of town. It's basically a junk yard, which leads up to the big building, and then thousands of feet of open prairie all around.
Well my g/f and I decided to go out there this weekend to take some pictures, so we park her car, jump the fence and start walking down the trail. As we begin to enter the junkyard section I see like a 2005 red ford f150. We pause and duck behind some trees, we look around and see if we can see anybody, but we don't. There's hundreds of "no trespassing" and "trespassers will be prosecuted" signs everywhere, so it was pretty obvious we weren't allowed to be there.
Once we realize he's probably inside some building we jog past that section and start walking around taking pictures. Well I wanted to go left and check out what was on the edge of prairie and my g/f wanted to walk around the junkyard some more. So I get a few thousand feet out and stop on top of this hill to check out the view when I see...the red pickup.
I lay down in the high grass and watch as the red pickup drives around to where my g/f was walking. He's driving real slow, and I'm figuring he was going to leave, saw our car, and turned around to find us. Well I watch as he lazily cruises through the junk yard, pausing every now and then and then moving on. He starts to leave so I get up and run down the hill to a dry creek bed that circles the facility. As I run down the hill I see my g/f run out from a tree line, heading towards me.
We meet in the creek bed and she said the red truck stopped up the road a little bit. So we start to follow the creek bed and look for him. We find him sitting in his car on the road that leads out of the facility. So we get smart, and figure we'll follow the creek bed the other direction, till it ends at the other side of the prairie then hike through the woods, and come out on the road away from him.
It takes maybe an hour to hike through the woods, when following the road would have taken 15 minutes. But we finally arrive towards where the gate is and guess what....the red truck is now parked, blocking he front gate. So we had three options basically:
-wait till the red truck got bored and left (not likely because he's been waiting for us for an hour and a half)
-follow the woods, come out on the main road, and walk to the car...which means we have to walk in front of him and he'll obviously know it's us he's been looking for.
-back track, cross the road, and approach our car from the other side (so he can't see us), jump in the car and drive off like a bat out of hell before he has a chance to follow us.
Of course, we choose option 3. On the other side of the road is THICK woods, and slight prairie (it has small bushes), so we start to jog, bush to bush, across this section and then suddenly we hear his truck start. We freeze and drop. I see him turn his truck around and then turn it off, but he's coasting...he's in neutral and he's coasting down the hill. That sneaky bastard is hoping he can sneak up on us because we wont hear him!
So we wait till he's out of view, then make a mad dash the last 100 feet to the car, to hell with thorn bushes! we both run through, tearing our clothing slightly, cutting ourselves everywhere and getting thorns stuck in our skin. We jump in the car, start it up, and take off!
I didn't really get any pictures...due to constantly being chased, but here's a few of the shots...I wish I knew what he wanted to do to us...he was certainly going to great lengths to try and catch us, so I think he was going to do more than "hey you kids! don't do that again!" and then leave.
my g/f taking a picture of the drainage that runs into the dry creek bed..
Well my g/f and I decided to go out there this weekend to take some pictures, so we park her car, jump the fence and start walking down the trail. As we begin to enter the junkyard section I see like a 2005 red ford f150. We pause and duck behind some trees, we look around and see if we can see anybody, but we don't. There's hundreds of "no trespassing" and "trespassers will be prosecuted" signs everywhere, so it was pretty obvious we weren't allowed to be there.
Once we realize he's probably inside some building we jog past that section and start walking around taking pictures. Well I wanted to go left and check out what was on the edge of prairie and my g/f wanted to walk around the junkyard some more. So I get a few thousand feet out and stop on top of this hill to check out the view when I see...the red pickup.
I lay down in the high grass and watch as the red pickup drives around to where my g/f was walking. He's driving real slow, and I'm figuring he was going to leave, saw our car, and turned around to find us. Well I watch as he lazily cruises through the junk yard, pausing every now and then and then moving on. He starts to leave so I get up and run down the hill to a dry creek bed that circles the facility. As I run down the hill I see my g/f run out from a tree line, heading towards me.
We meet in the creek bed and she said the red truck stopped up the road a little bit. So we start to follow the creek bed and look for him. We find him sitting in his car on the road that leads out of the facility. So we get smart, and figure we'll follow the creek bed the other direction, till it ends at the other side of the prairie then hike through the woods, and come out on the road away from him.
It takes maybe an hour to hike through the woods, when following the road would have taken 15 minutes. But we finally arrive towards where the gate is and guess what....the red truck is now parked, blocking he front gate. So we had three options basically:
-wait till the red truck got bored and left (not likely because he's been waiting for us for an hour and a half)
-follow the woods, come out on the main road, and walk to the car...which means we have to walk in front of him and he'll obviously know it's us he's been looking for.
-back track, cross the road, and approach our car from the other side (so he can't see us), jump in the car and drive off like a bat out of hell before he has a chance to follow us.
Of course, we choose option 3. On the other side of the road is THICK woods, and slight prairie (it has small bushes), so we start to jog, bush to bush, across this section and then suddenly we hear his truck start. We freeze and drop. I see him turn his truck around and then turn it off, but he's coasting...he's in neutral and he's coasting down the hill. That sneaky bastard is hoping he can sneak up on us because we wont hear him!
So we wait till he's out of view, then make a mad dash the last 100 feet to the car, to hell with thorn bushes! we both run through, tearing our clothing slightly, cutting ourselves everywhere and getting thorns stuck in our skin. We jump in the car, start it up, and take off!
I didn't really get any pictures...due to constantly being chased, but here's a few of the shots...I wish I knew what he wanted to do to us...he was certainly going to great lengths to try and catch us, so I think he was going to do more than "hey you kids! don't do that again!" and then leave.
my g/f taking a picture of the drainage that runs into the dry creek bed..
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