The press like writing about Urban Explorers because we’re a cheap target. Often a local rag will use loaded inflammatory phrases like “breaking in” and “thrill seeker” to write about a site in their readerships’ locale and then ask the site owner to comment. Frequently they’ll steal pictures off our websites and use them in the article, even though the copyright theft they practice is a criminal offence, vs. the purely civil act of trespass I undertake when exploring a site.
Anyhow, the local paper in Croydon likes writing about their own local mecca of exploration … Cane Hill Hospital. This time the article was about videos of it being explored on YouTube, and of course I like making videos and putting them on YouTube. Indeed my directorial genius and clever soundtrack choice means I’m now famous ;-).
Here’s the article on the Croydon Advertiser’s site and here’s a direct link to the video in question.