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Bluffboy says: My mate cheated death and burned his eyebrows off looking down the barrel of a potato gun. Tell us about your brushes with the Grim Reaper through stupidity.

(, Thu 12 Feb 2009, 20:01)
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Urban exploring
So I was wandering through an abandoned and partially demolished neighbourhood in Seoul, Korea, with a fellow Canadian named Brandon.

We were taking pictures, going into abandoned buildings, etc. This is a dangerous practice, so we of course follow a lot of rules. One is never to go into a building that's been partially demolished.

So while wandering around, a bunch of Korean art students show up and look around the place. We kept our distance from them, until I saw this genius standing on top of a half-demolished building (see comments).

Me and Brandon start yelling at him to get down. He looks back at us, goes "Ah! White people!" and points us out to his friends, all sort of reminiscent of that movie Invasion of the Bodysnatchers.

I took this picture of him staring at us in astonishment and pointing, while we were staring at him in astonishment and Darwinness.
(, Fri 13 Feb 2009, 2:54, 8 replies)
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(, Fri 13 Feb 2009, 2:55, closed)
'Kinell!!
Now it makes sense! How public spirited, taking yourself out of the gene pool like that!
Ooh *click*
(, Fri 13 Feb 2009, 9:38, closed)
Now that,
is genuinely fucking hillarious!

I like the Invasion of the Bodysnatchers ref. Nice one!!!
(, Fri 13 Feb 2009, 9:43, closed)
Are you sure that's Korea?
Looks remarkably like Basildon to me...
(, Fri 13 Feb 2009, 13:10, closed)
Basildon...
...don't you mean Vange or Pitsea?
(, Mon 16 Feb 2009, 21:12, closed)
Yeah
As a friend who lived there once told me, "The Posh End" !
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 14:58, closed)
I must of missed that memo
I tend to be the guy on top of building like that - only I'm taking pictures.

Seen your stuff on some other forums; keep up the good work :-)
(, Mon 16 Feb 2009, 16:55, closed)
Not me
I'm not going any closer to buildings like that. I'll photograph them from a distance.
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 11:16, closed)

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