TDW 1295 - When You Think You're Going To Jail
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Oh, are you guys in there? Is anyone
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inside? Anyone inside there? Welcome
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everyone. Adam the Woo
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here. I don't know where I was going
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with that intro. It's my second channel,
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Daily Vlog channel. It's the Daily Woo
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and I'm in my van and I'm going to tell
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you a little story today. It's story
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time, everyone. Yesterday, Justin Scard
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and I, we ventured out to the desert of
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California, and we wanted to check out
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an abandoned
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location. And I didn't want I don't want
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to give too many specifics about the
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abandoned location, but we visited this
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massive abandoned location. And it
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worked out pretty well because there was
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a couple places I wanted to check out
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yesterday. And Justin always is saying,
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"I would like to go with you on an
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abandoned adventure." because he's kind
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of like never really been on a lot of
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abandoned adventures before. So, I said,
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"Hey, come along with me." I embraced
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his idea. So, we jumped in this van. We
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cruise out to the California desert and
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things went a little bit ary yesterday.
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We filmed a vlog on his channel, Justin
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Scard. Just
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YouTube/Justinscard. It was a vlog where
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we found this boat in the middle of the
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desert. We climbed the top of this real
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big steep hill, almost a mountainous
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region, and he filmed this vlog of this
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boat. Pretty funny vlog, kind of random
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and impulsive. And then after that,
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shortly after that, 30 to 45 minutes
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after that vlog was
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filmed, things went a little arai, you
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could say. Luckily, they did not go too
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far
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aai. And I don't know what could have
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happened. When you do abandoned places,
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you're always taking a chance.
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especially an abandoned place that no
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one else has filmed. This is what this
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was. This was kind of a place that no
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one else has documented. There's not a
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lot of information online
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about this
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particular property. So, you never know
2:02
if someone is living there, if the
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property is not completely abandoned, if
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someone is standing there with a
2:10
shotgun, an owner or a property
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caretaker. So, a lot of this stuff when
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you do abandoned stuff is really you're
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kind of taking a chance. So, people are
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always saying, "Do more abandoned stuff.
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Do more abandoned stuff. Do more
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abandoned stuff. Do more abandoned
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stuff." And as much as I love abandoned
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stuff, you always have to tread lightly
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and take abandoned location suggestions
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with a grain of salt because when you
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show up to one, you never know what is
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going to be around the corner. And that
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is what happened yesterday. basically
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pulled up to this abandoned property,
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this massive acres and acres and acres
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of this abandoned property in the
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desert. And it's been closed for six,
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maybe even seven years from its original
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operating
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procedures. And it used to be a place
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where a lot of people went and spent a
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lot of
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money. And everything according to
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Google Earth, excuse me, is still there
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except it's deteriorating. You look on
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Google Earth, you can see everything
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deteriorating.
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There's one thing on Google Earth that I
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found though from last year where it
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looked like there was a trailer that had
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been placed on the property. So I
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thought maybe there is a caretaker
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there. So basically the way I surveyed
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the area is drove around the perimeter
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of the property. Drove around the back
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end through this really sketchy desert
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road up to the tippy top of the
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property. I really apologize for this
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for this
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uh crazy glare, this shadow I have. You
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know what I'm going to do? I'm going to
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turn off right up here and get this sun
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out of our face. So,
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basically, we drove around the
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perimeter. Didn't look like there was
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anyone on the property. The property was
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elevated above the rest of the road, the
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desert roads. So if there was someone on
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the property, if they were scouring the
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countryside for people that were going
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to try to either film or just maybe go
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on their property and snoop around, they
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had a very good bird's eyee view. And
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this came back to be our demise. So
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Justin and I parked probably about a
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mile, let's say about a mile, maybe a
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little shy of a mile, 3/4 of a mile to a
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mile away from the front gate. that way.
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I didn't want anyone seeing a van, this
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van sitting there at the front gate and
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then call the police or get a hint that
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we were actually on the property. So, we
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walked about a mile and the way I pretty
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much operate when I film an abandoned
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place is I make no bones about the fact
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that I am actually going in there. So,
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basically, I took my camera. I have my
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camera back at the house now, but I took
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my camera. I had this I have one of
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those little dead cat things now. Not a
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real dead cat, but one of those those
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little like fluffy mechanisms you put on
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a microphone to keep the wind down. I
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bought one of those the other day uh at
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a camera place around here in close to
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LA. So, I was trying that out. So, I had
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my camera, I had my camera bag, Justin
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had his camera, I had my tripod walking
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extended. We were walking down kind of a
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main thoroughare in the desert towards
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this abandoned location. And look,
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everything looked good. And the reason I
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do that is because I want people to
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know. I want people to stop me before I
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go in an abandoned place because you
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never know if a place is completely
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abandoned or completely desolate or
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people are living there or are watching
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over the property or maybe a new owner
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has bought it and doesn't want people
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snooping around. You never really know
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the situation till you actually get
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there. So we were walking. I was
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thinking, well, someone hopefully will
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stop us. Somebody somebody will stop us.
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Somebody will stop us. Somebody will
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stop us. Nobody stopped us. We get up to
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the front gate. We turn to walk up this
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hill towards the property. There is a
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gate
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there. And there is a guy, a man that
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looks like he could win an arm wrestling
6:00
battle with Charles Bronson. This guy
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was John Wayne times
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10. He was an older gentleman, but this
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guy I would not want to mess with. He
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was he was he was a real man. Let's just
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put it that way. He was driving this old
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beat up I think it was a Chevy truck and
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he was just sitting there mean mugging
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and staring at us and I am not trying to
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sugarcoat anything. So I basically
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walked up. Justin was beside me and I
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said, "Hello, sir. Are you the property
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owner?" And he said, "Yes, I am the
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property owner." And I said, "Oh, I
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travel around the country. I take
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pictures and I film little videos of
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abandoned locations." And he promptly
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said, "This is not an abandoned
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location." Well, it actually is an
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abandoned location because it's
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abandoned from his original use. But
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then he informed me. I said, and then I
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said, "Do you mind if I go take some
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pictures?" And he goes, "Not up top." So
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I said, "Okay, sir. I understand you
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letting you letting us know we're not
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allowed on the property." And he then he
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said, "The police are always out here.
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The police are always out here with
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guns. They're shooting guns."
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So, this kind of like frightened Justin
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and I a little bit, but I kept my calm,
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kept the conversation going. I do not
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film any of the conversation. Sometimes
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I will turn my camera on, but it all
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happened so fast I forgot to record the
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situation. And I always think I don't
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want to secretly record someone when
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sometimes people actually grant you
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access to places. I didn't want to be on
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the cusp of actually being able to be
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granted access to this location and then
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him realize I was filming and then his
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attitude change. So, I decided not to
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film it. Looking back on it now, I kind
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of wish I would have had some footage to
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show you guys of of what actually
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happened. But that is not the crescendo
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of the story. After he told us all this
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information and a sad trombone went off
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in my head, wamp wamp wamp. We had just
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drove an hour and a half, maybe 2 hours
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out of the way and then walked a mile
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out of the way to go to a place that we
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were not going to be documenting at all.
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And of course, Justin was let down
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because he wanted to see this abandoned
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place. I'm not going to mention what the
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place is because then other people will
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go and probably bother this guy. And he
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does not want people on the property. I
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assure you, he does not want people on
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the property. And here's the twist. So
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basically afterwards I shook his hand. I
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said, "Nice meeting you, sir." He told
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me his name. I told him, "My name is
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Adam." He told me his name. His grip was
8:30
like something that like Popeye would be
8:33
proud of. He was his grip for an older
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gentleman was like a vice grip. And I
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think he had a lot of respect. The fact
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that I walked up to him. I did not try
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to run away. I walked right up. I
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announced who I was, what I was doing.
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And then as Justin and I walked off,
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this is when it got really weird. He sat
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there. So, we're walking down this
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desert road about another mile. As we
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are walking down this desert road, a car
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approaches us while his truck is still
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on the property line. A car approaches
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us, pulls off maybe 30 feet behind us,
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gets out, opens his trunk creepily like,
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and is kind of looking around. I didn't
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even want to look at the guy with the
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trunk open. Justin's like, "A guy just
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randomly pulled over for no reason in
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our vicinity and he's opening a trunk."
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And this guy was, the other guy, the
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property owner, was saying about there's
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police presence. There are people out
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here with guns. They're shooting stuff
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all the time. Stay off my land. Stay off
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my land. So, our pace quickened as we
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walk up to my van. And my van was
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probably another half mile from where
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this opening of the trunk escapade
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happened. We get to my van. We get to my
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van and on my windshield. This is no
9:48
exaggeration. On my windshield are
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these. Now, what are these exactly? When
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I first saw them, I thought it was a
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note written to us. I thought it was
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photos of us walking up to the property.
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But in reality, these are photos of the
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police officers shooting guns and on the
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property that we were
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about to trespass and walk on and film.
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And they are dated early this year
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and late last year. So look at this.
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1218 2015. And of course, this one's a
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little more recent. This is only gosh
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112 which was very recently a few days
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ago
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112 2016. And you can see there's the
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back of the gentleman's truck. There are
10:43
the police officers up the hill which
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they might have been there if we would
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have walked up there. And here's another
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shot. Look at these guys. They're fully
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armed. They have their vests
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on. Who knows what they are doing up
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there. Maybe that is why he did not want
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us on the property. Now, this story is
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kind of long-winded and I wasn't even
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going to talk about this and then I got
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to thinking. A lot of people are always
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saying do a ban and stuff. And if you
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choose to do a ban and stuff, I have
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some tips for you. When you go to a
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location, don't sneak around. Try to be
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obvious on what you are doing. Try to
11:17
make it known that you are up to no
11:19
harm. Most property owners do not want
11:22
people going in there with crowbars or
11:24
spray paint or people trying to
11:26
basically loot the place or pull copper
11:29
out of the walls. If you walk up with a
11:31
very nice professional camera, a tripod,
11:35
a nice
11:36
microphone, usually you can actually
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talk your way out of something. And
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sometimes, this has happened many times
11:42
in the past, you can get permission. And
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I really want to thank that guy who I
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will not name his name or his property
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out of respect to him. I have to thank
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him for being so kind for not arresting
11:53
me and Justin. That would have been a
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heck of a first abandoned location video
11:58
for Justin to go to jail or to call the
12:02
police and have to deal with that whole
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rigomearroll. So, it worked out very
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well. Quite the experience. These photos
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are pretty insane. And I didn't know how
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to react when I saw these. Justin was
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sitting over here and I was like, "What
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the heck is on my window?" They were
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right there on my window.
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And as I opened the window and actually
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I actually opened the door and walked
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out and grabbed them, I did not know how
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to react to them. It was very took me
12:28
back and I I kind of had a lot of
12:31
respect for the old guy. So here's what
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I am thinking. Did he put the photos on
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my van before we approached him? Or did
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he pass us as we were looking at the guy
12:44
with the trunk opened? Lord knows what
12:46
that guy was doing. I don't even want to
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know. And did he drive and then put
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these on my van after? He was thinking I
12:54
was hesitant in believing that there was
12:56
police presence on the property. A very
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peculiar thing. The thing about these
13:01
vlogs is sometimes I go film abandoned
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places on these vlogs or theme parks or
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roadside attractions or movie locations
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or I talk about personal stuff. This is
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a personal thing because this was kind
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of dramatic. I started to think I really
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do not know need another legal another
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legal thing on my past not history but I
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do not need another legal aspect.
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Another thing too it's interesting I
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mentioned this before is abandoned
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places are abandoned and they are owned
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normally even though a building is
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abandoned property is owned by someone.
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And here is a major point that most
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people need to realize when they film an
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abandoned place. When you go on
13:44
someone's property and you're sneaking
13:46
around and no one is there and you're
13:47
filming this huge abandoned building,
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you have to realize that after your
13:51
footage is on the internet, you have now
13:54
proven that you were there. So, expect
13:58
to get some recourse and the
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expectations. Reap what you seow. You
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have
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to make sure you know the risk versus
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the reward. In this case, the risk
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worked out and that we did not actually
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get the short end of the stick. So, one
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last look at these weird photos. Look at
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these. These are pretty crazy. This
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photo
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here and then this photo right
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here. Pretty crazy.
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So, our desert adventure, part one of
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our desert adventure did not work out
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the way we thought it was going to work
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out. But luckily, I had a part two. I
14:39
had another secondary video planned and
14:41
that one actually was accomplished. In
14:44
fact, I will be editing that tonight and
14:45
probably uploading that tomorrow. A new
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awesome video Justin Scarard from Live
14:51
Fast and I did. Check out his sometimes
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vlog that he did yesterday on
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YouTube/Justenscard. We found this weird
14:58
abandoned boat out in the middle of the
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desert. So check out his channel and
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tell him. You could even say, "Woo,
15:05
thankfully you're not in a jail cell
15:06
right now with Adam because that would
15:08
be at least I wouldn't be lonely hanging
15:09
out with Justin. We would kind of
15:11
protect each other from whatever the
15:14
whatever happens in there. All right,
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I'm going to let you guys go. Thanks for
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watching this very incoherent rambling
15:21
vlog. Remember what I said about
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abandoned places. And remember this when
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you're always saying go to more
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abandoned places, more abandoned places,
15:27
more abandoned places. I try to go as
15:29
many as I can, but you always have to
15:32
tread lightly, especially when you don't
15:34
have legit permission to film somewhere
15:36
because you never know, especially when
15:38
you're out of your element and you're
15:39
out in the middle of nowhere, especially
15:40
in the desert because some places in the
15:42
desert or in non, you know,
15:44
non-populated areas, some places look
15:47
like they might be abandoned and someone
15:49
might be living in that house or that
15:51
building or that establishment that you
15:53
thought was abandoned. It may just be
15:56
run down and people just are living in
15:58
that rundown place. And you never also
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another thing is terrifying too. He was
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even saying what if we walked on some
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kind of like drug farm or something and
16:06
they shot us, you know, like Justin's
16:08
very paranoid. I am used to this whole
16:10
abandoned thing. I'll pretty much grab
16:11
the bull by the horns and walk into
16:13
anywhere. But it was interesting seeing
16:15
his point of view and he is right. You
16:17
never know what you're going to stumble
16:20
upon. Just like this vlog, you never
16:22
know. Like a box of chocolates, you
16:23
never know what you're going to get. As
16:24
Forest Gump says, check down below for
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the Woo Patreon. I think you can just
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Google that. Google ad theWoo Patreon. I
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have this thing with Patreon where if
16:42
you are going to be a pledger and a
16:44
supporter to help fuel the woo to put
16:46
gas in this van and help out big the
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foot to try to keep your pledge at at
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least $5 or less$1 to5. That way
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everyone can help out and it becomes
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like this whole like circle of goodness
17:01
to where it is on the low end and no one
17:04
is really breaking their bank account to
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help out. Yet we're all going to
17:08
different places. We're experiencing
17:10
things together vicariously and I'll see
17:13
you guys in tomorrow's vlog. Also,
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adamthe.spreadshirt.com. Leave some
17:17
comments down below if you have ever had
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an experience like this and what you
17:21
think about what I have talked about.
17:23
And I'll see you guys mñana. Goodbye.