Have you ever been somewhere you shouldn’t be?
Posted by Efficient_Steak_7568@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 476 comments
In primary school once I sneaked into the cloakroom area during break to get something when we weren't allowed to be there, and I still remember the thrill of hiding when a teacher came in
dfinkelstein@reddit
Falsely convicted.
YUP.
Important-Engineer49@reddit
9 months on remand for fuck all. Was found unanimously not guilty.
Solid-Physics-1218@reddit
Can you/did you get any compensation?
Ok-Switch242@reddit
Unless their case was seriously mishandled then no.
It worth noting remand is quite literally detention without trial and is used usually when the risk the defendant poses outweighs defendant’s right to liberty. All applications for remand are heavily scrutinised.
Source: work in the CJS
Important-Engineer49@reddit
Failed to appear at magistrates Court a couple of times as a teenager on driving offences, boy did that come back to bite me in the ass a decade later. They decided I was a flight risk and insta remanded me.
Ok-Switch242@reddit
Oh that sucks sorry to hear that happened.
Important-Engineer49@reddit
No, nothing you can do.
SelectTrash@reddit
What did you do?
dfinkelstein@reddit
Asked too many questions.
eren3141@reddit
are we allowed to ask what for
dfinkelstein@reddit
of course!
easily-distracte@reddit
My assumption is overly literal replies to Reddit comments. But in the case you conviction would have been correct.
ChangingMyLife849@reddit
I did the same as you, but I was about 6 and noticed someone had lost their PE shoes. Tried to feel each bag to see who’s they were and make sure nobody was missing their shoes for PE.
Got caught and had to spend the rest of my break and lunch times that week inside sharpening pencils and cleaning the classroom and being told each day that what I had done was reckless and a fire hazard, because if there had been a fire I would have died because they wouldn’t have known I was in there.
Felt a bit like an overreaction to a kid trying to be kind
Little_Mog@reddit
I was once bollocked because during a fire drill I stopped to grab my brothers inhaler bag. Got a similar bollocking but I just kept arguing that I'd rather die in a fire than let my brother die from an asthma attack brought on by a fake fire.
They tried to punish me but my parents weren't having it because I was 9 and the only person in the school allowed to give my brother his meds since apparently none of the teachers were trained to do it? I don't know, it was weird but I used to get pulled out of class to help him with it
HelpDaren@reddit
Certified first aider and fire marshal here.
With all due respect, they were right. I do understand why you stopped to grab your brother's reliever (more on that later), especially since you were 9 at the time and protecting your brother was more important than anything else. You did what you thought was best, and no one should've blame you for that.
However, fire drills are in place not just to see how quickly everyone can leave the building, but it's a test to fire marshals as well to teach them how long the "sweep" can take.
Fire consumes everything. Literally everything. If a fire burns hot enough, it can literally pulverize concrete or bricks. It doesn't take long for an average classroom to be engulfed in flames, and once flashover occures in around 3-5 minutes (depending on what burns, but there are many things in a classroom with low ignition temperature), the chance to survive is literally 0%.
So when the fire alarm sounds, the absolute best you can do is to leave through the nearest exit.
The two main reasons you shouldn't take anything with you (apart of what you can instantly grab as you get up, like phone, keys, or whatever is in front of you) is time and space. The more time you fiddle with stuff, the later you get out, and the bigger the bag you're trying to carry, the more space you take through a door. And if a 100+ people are trying to leave a building through a single door, you're gonna need as much space as you can have.
Making sure children (and tbf, adults too...) are understanding this is a huge responsibility. If you're responsible for dozens or even hundreds of people, you'll immediately understand how infuriating it can be if someone is randomly stopping to grab a few things, even if it's just a drill. In a fire, every second means life or death. You practice PEEP procedures to make sure no one dies if there's an actual fire, and trust me, even a drill can be ridiculously stressful, even if you're not rated on it.
Now about your brother's reliever: as first aiders (and I'm sure your scool used to have one too), our job is to help anyone who needs immediate treatment. An asthma attack, although a serious condition, and can actually kill someone, isn't gonna do that immediately, it takes time. To treat an asthma attack without the reliever is pretty straight forward; you sit them down up straight, and call 999. As soon as you tell the operator that you don't have the reliever, it's gonna be a Category-1 (life-threatening) call, and the ambulance will be there within 5-8 minutes. It is absolutely possible that the person will lose consciousness in the meantime, but the upside of that - especially with an asthma attack - is that it'll very likely stop the attack itself as their muscles will relax no matter what. But if even that doesn't help, we can perform CPR.
So while yes, absolutely understand why your first thought was your brother, I also understand your school's response too. You were their responsibility, along with your brother, and since the school knew about your brother's condition (since they were the one pulling you out of classes), they had to be prepared to him having an attack, even tho they weren't (and legally couldn't) trained to administer his reliever. Not even first aiders are allowed to do that. We can assist, we can hold the reliever, push it into their mouth, but we can't push the button, they have to do it.
ffjjygvb@reddit
https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/ambulance-response-times
TL;DR; 7 minutes is the target mean for cat 1 response, but since 2021 that target has not been met it has been most commonly over 8 minutes and at some points over 10 minutes.
The 90th percentile target is 15 minutes so 10 percent of the time it is expected to take longer than 15 minutes.
As a certified first aider you probably have the same book as I have written by SJA, BRC and St. Andrew’s which says that hypoxia will start causing brain cells to die in as little as 3-4 minutes.
You’re right that people with first aid at work and emergency first aid at work cannot administer medication but many schools have a school nurse (sadly the number is falling) and they are able to dispense medication. Schools are also permitted (since 2014) to have salbutamol “reliever” inhalers (the blue ones) and the government advice directed at teachers says
Which suggests to me that a teacher is allowed to dispense and administer salbutamol.
I agree with what you’re saying about not fetching things in fire but given the dangers, schools should probably have a grab bag containing salbutamol inhalers and the paperwork necessary to record their use. So there is no need to require siblings to administer it and families should know about that arrangement so siblings and friends aren’t worrying about that in a fire.
All that said, there’s usually a quiet and serious bit in most first courses where they ask if you’re going to stand and watch someone die because they don’t have their medication but a bystander has the thing that they might need. There’s a time for rules, but if a rule follower gets me killed I’m gonna haunt them.
HelpDaren@reddit
I agree about the time for rules. In normal circumstances, there has to be that 10 seconds to grab your bag with your medication in it.
The problem starts when unusual circumstances arise. Yes, a go-bag is a must, yes, a reliever is very important to have in it, and yes, risking death for a fire drill is ridiculous.
However, we’re talking about kids. It’s even a challenge sometimes to make adults understand the inherent dangers of a fire (there is a reason kitchen fires happen a lot), but trying to explain the same to children without leaving life-long scars in their mind is almost impossible. A 9 years old will not understand that they simply don’t have time. They will understand that a fire is dangerous, they will understand that they’ll have to leave the building, but they won’t understand that 10 seconds can be a matter of maccies after school or asphyxiation. They’ll either laugh (been there) and joke about how they’d look like, or they just ignore you. As a first aider, one of my responsibilities is to know if anyone would need any special medical treatment in case of an emergency (without violating their rights of privacy), and as a fire marshal, my main responsibility is to make sure that in case of a fire, everyone gets out as soon as humanely possible.
If I have to make a choice between someone’a asthma attack or certain death in a fire, I’d choose the asthma attack without hesitation. I can at least start to treat an asthma attack, but I can’t treat death. I can do everything in my power to try to aid someone through an asthma attack until emergency services arrive, I can make them as comfortable as possible, I know how to treat them if they go unconscious, but I can’t, and I will not run into a burning building to try get them out if they get stuck. If in case of a fire, someone deviates from the quickest route of safety, I will drag them out if I have to, but I will not let them run around in panic, trying to find their bag on the other side of the building.
ffjjygvb@reddit
With the rules but I wasn’t talking so much about fire rules, I agree with you completely that in a fire you get out as first priority.
More that most first aid trainers are saying they would rather break a rule around sharing medication or more likely pretend not to notice as it is broken.
breadandfire@reddit
At 9 years, you were already a legend.
Teachers couldn't understand that.
Moniker_Geller7@reddit
Primary school teachers were odd specimens. I remember getting bollocked more as a young kid for innocent stuff like this than actual dickhead behaviour stuff I did with my mates in high school.
Arsenalfantv12345@reddit
I got bollocked for kicking a basketball in year 4 kind of innocent 💀💀😭
Moniker_Geller7@reddit
Jesus!
Okay so it’s a fact, primary school teachers were power tripping bastards who were also clearly scared of kids that came to above the kneecap height so settled for picking on little ones instead of high schoolers 💀💀💀
LloydAtkinson@reddit
Were? Still are
ChangingMyLife849@reddit
I once got told off for sitting up straight in an assembly when a teacher walked in, because I shouldn’t have been slouching in the first place and it was “disrespectful” to have bene slouching
Blackkers@reddit
Yup, snuck into my mum's cupboard at Xmas to see if I could get a sneak peek of the presents when I was eight. Mum came in and proceeded to start watching films back to back, and I was in that cupboard all curled up for 5 hours (she worked nights as a midwife so kept odd hours) on a crinkly bit of something so couldn't even move. When she left my entire body was numb and I had to flop out.
ffjjygvb@reddit
As a parent I would’ve been suspicious that the house was too quiet and gone looking for you. I wonder if she knew you were in there the whole time.
Blackkers@reddit
No idea to be honest. I've sisters as well so other noise, and most of the time I'd be in my room playing computer games anyway.
Moniker_Geller7@reddit
Oh this made me laugh, you poor thing.
Blackkers@reddit
Lol! Never again!
Cumulus_Anarchistica@reddit
Did you ever tell her?
Blackkers@reddit
I didn't! To be honest I'd completely forgotten about it, until the original question open a mental box of worms and it all came flooding back. Next time I see her I'll fess up 😊
Uhura-hoop@reddit
‘I had to flop out’ that’s brilliant 😆
Banditofbingofame@reddit
We snuck into bestival when it was on the isle of wight back in the mid 00s.
It was two of us and we had had high Vis vests, generally dressed as builders and some old stage speakers and waltzed past security early on day one. I was terrified and not very good at that sort of thing but my mate was great at it. He just said something like 'watchbout mate, this is heavy' and we pushed past.
We ditched the speakers and hooked up with some mates for the weekend.
BungadinRidesAgain@reddit
Genius.
CheesyJapsEye@reddit
Well known fact that if you have some ladders, a hi vis and a hard hat, you can get in anywhere.
ffjjygvb@reddit
There are people that are paid to do this kind of thing to test companies security. Once high viz and hard hat stops working they think up other schemes.
If you’re interested Deviant Ollam is one such guy and shares interesting stories.
UruquianLilac@reddit
As long as you've got some uniform that gives you some authority in the context, most people will accept your authority without question.
OreoSpamBurger@reddit
Clipboard too.
TheNutsMutts@reddit
Reminds me of a time my Wife and I snuck backstage at Reading Festival many years ago. Someone was handing out large yellow promotional wristbands that said VIP on them in big gold letters (they weren't for anything, they were just advertising something) but we wondered if we could get past the steward at the entrance of the backstage area by showing them these and acting completely confident. Worked a treat! It wasn't anything too fancy as it was essentially a bar and hang-out area, and the only famous person we saw was Mel B. Still, we were quite impressed that we pulled it off.
UruquianLilac@reddit
That's a good day in my books. And Mel B is a good bonus. But the "acting confident" trick works terrifyingly well.
eckthomo91@reddit
Found myself inside of a KFC once.
Get-Me-Hennimore@reddit
When I was maybe 10, I was in the big city with my older brother waiting for a store to open. It was quite cold so we tried another door and walked in. The door only said “Studio Berlin”.
Inside, we found a manned second entrance decorated with… handcuffs. With the innocence of youth, I asked the guy what kind of place it was. He said “Not a place for you”.
(It was presumably a sex club.)
My brother got the hint and we left.
moschops1956@reddit
Me and my mate went down to London to watch arsenal vs man utd in a cup game. Went to Highbury and managed to purchase 2 tickets. 3rd row from touchline, surrounded by arsenal fans. I was shouting my head off every time united attacked. How we got out in 1 piece still surprises me.
Leipopo_Stonnett@reddit
When I had a psychotic break and got sectioned, I went to three different mental hospitals. In the first hospital, I was convinced due to my delusions that it was an elaborate, live action escape room game set up by my parents, and that I had to escape. I ended up using scrabble tiles to hold the locks of doors open and escaped into a staff only area. I found a kitchen and drank three Yazoo milkshakes from the fridge before someone started to approach, so I climbed up on a cabinet by the door so I was out of view. Four people entered the kitchen and didn’t notice me on top of the cabinet. I must have stayed there for about half an hour. After they left I explored a lot of the facility before eventually getting caught.
CatherineBoylee@reddit
I was once at your Mum’s house
Efficient_Steak_7568@reddit (OP)
Noice
Disastrous_Injury915@reddit
Managed to sneak into the pit lane at Silverstone for a Ferrari racing event. Was on the pit wall watching the cars scream by when a security guy clocked us and told us to get back with the other plebs.
Efficient_Steak_7568@reddit (OP)
Did he poke you with a stick
Disastrous_Injury915@reddit
No just a bit of a telling off, just played dumb and didnt have any issues.
KezzyKesKes@reddit
My husband used to work as a bike mechanic for one of the Motor GP teams. He had too much to drink the night before and passed out on the tyre wall at Donnington Park. He woke up to find they were about two laps into qualifying! 🤣
kebaros@reddit
A few years ago my friend and me decided we were too old for magaluf lads holidays and decided to go to New York.
We treated it as a 18-30s holiday and spent most of the week hammered and having a laff. One night we were out and about, we came across a restaurant with security on the doors. My friend and I are both 6ft and at the time he had shaved his head and tried to walk in before being stopped by the security guy, I looked at the clip board and selected a name and apologised to the guard and said I was Mr Smith and he let us in. Really didn't know what to expect but it seemed to be an upscale party with a free bar and food being passed about. Apparently it was a famous chefs restaurant opening that we had crashed, I spoke to people and it became pretty obvious that despite my bets attempts that I wasn't a chef or owner of a restaurant like everyone else was.
Also my mate passed out on the free Stella and everyone started taking pictures of him on their blackberries
rubber-bumpers@reddit
Fucking hell look at moneybags here having a weeks sesh with the lads in New York
kebaros@reddit
Back in the days before kids and a mortgage 😉
smigger260822@reddit
Myself & 3 friends once sneaked into the church vestry where the vicar gets ready for the service...there was a box of wine with tap on it on top of filing cabinet, this was for the Communion Cup, we all put our head under tap and had a swig and then snook out.....😂😂😂
Jaytalk95@reddit
Guy left his wallet and phone on the bar. Followed after him once I was informed he was at an event down the road from my local pub. Walked through the front door of this building I had seen so many times before but never knew what it was.
Transpired to be a freemason club. Got mobbed by four people, explaining I was returning lost property to a member who was in fact the chairman of the club. Still didn’t stop them snatching the property off me and bum tossing me into the street.
That was two days before Christmas. Bunch of dickheads.
cactusdan94@reddit
What is a freemason group? All i know about it is as much as the simpsons told me
Jaytalk95@reddit
A social Club involving people with a significant job / person in a good professional position. Example like police, Doctor, solicitor, Company director, a trade. Recognised skill etc. used to be exclusively for men and the only way to join is by invite / recommendation and you can be “black-balled” in the selection process etc. I may be wrong as I’m not a member. I was just a humble electrician that got tossed out into the cold whilst trying to do a nice thing ha ha ha!.
I have been told that if you’re a tradesman and friendly with them, you’ll never be out of work.
PumpkinSpice2Nice@reddit
One of my friends who was a member was just a worker in a B&Q.
fiery-sparkles@reddit
I'd always assumed it was only for white people?
hammer_of_science@reddit
Mate, given the shortage of trades nowadays, if you are a half decent tradesman you’ll never be out of work.
opopkl@reddit
You mean the Stonecutters.
Available-Anxiety280@reddit
Uhh... The Simpsons aren't far from the truth but it's not as fishy.
Basically it's just a blokes club. You're SUPPOSED to have a religion. They keep everything a bit hush hush but if you're actually interested in joining most of the time they'll let you.
It's basically Boy Scouts for adults.
AlfredTheMid@reddit
I'm Mason and I've never heard of any lodge acting like that. I've seen people come by our lodge during a meeting and being curious about what's inside. We usually just show them around, buy them a pint and have a chat.
Caraphox@reddit
Genuine question would this be the case for both men and women?
AlfredTheMid@reddit
I'd imagine it would be! We're governed by UGLE which is a men's organisation, but there are two for women also - OWF (Order of Women's Freemasons) and HFAF (Honourable Fraternity of Ancient Freemasons).
If a woman was interested in our lodge, we'd show her around for sure but then point out that she'd have to apply through OWF or HFAF as ours is a men's lodge
Caraphox@reddit
Cool!
Minimum_Leopard_2698@reddit
Same here, accidentally know a mason and called to drop something off. The blokes had no idea who I was and within minutes I’d been offered tea, biscuits which I declined but then everyone started discussing todays special tea so I was forcibly sat down and given some hotpot and a pint by the chef who is now one of my lifelong friends. I completely forgot to drop off what I went for lol they also showed me round the lodge and were pretty open and level headed about the whole thing. I’m also a woman and there was loads of women just milling about - it was less like “men and their wives” than the local snooker club lol
hammer_of_science@reddit
As I have been told by a few people
“How do you become a Freemason” “First, you have to ask.”
AlfredTheMid@reddit
Exactly, defeats the whole point if we're hoofing people out of the building before we even know them lol
avspuk@reddit
Tho I don't think they allow it any longer, anyone could walk into the freemasonry hq in London, go up the stairs to the lounge & drink the free coffee & read the papers.
Did it loads every time I visited London in the 90s & 00s
AlfredTheMid@reddit
You can still do that! Awesome place and well worth a visit, masons and non masons alike
avspuk@reddit
I was there during the start of the 08 crash
Ppl in the room were discussing how to help 'our friends in Iceland', it was a close to the "secretive group controls the world" stereotype 😉
But its a great room with huge larger than life full length portraits of old member of the Royal family from ages back, that I find amusing.
It's a lovely place to chill & have a free coffee.
WozniakStevie@reddit
Yeah this is absolutely not true.
I am VERY familiar with a group of Masons around the North Hertfordshire territory.
In absolutely any situation, a non Mason would under no circumstances be shown the inside of a lodge, definitely not brought drinks and 'shown around'
AlfredTheMid@reddit
You're more familiar with Masons than me, a Mason?
WozniakStevie@reddit
Yeah I honestly think so.
I suppose I'm talking of the freemasons from years ago, late 90s to early 00s when it still sort of meant something.
The fact an active freemason is chatting shit on Reddit goes to show the level of the organisation in its current day.
DameKumquat@reddit
Even if they're female?
AlfredTheMid@reddit
There are woman's lodges yeah. Two grand lodges govern them, as opposed to the one grand Lodge for the men's one - OWF (order of women's freemasons) and HFAF (honourable fraternity of ancient freemasons) are both women's lodges, whilst the men's ones are governed from UGLE (United grand lodge of England)
DameKumquat@reddit
So to go back to my question - if a woman turned up at your local men's lodge, would she get the tour and pint treatment, or be requested to push off?
Friend of mine started doing a history A-level dissertation on the Freemasons, helped by a couple teachers where he was senior enough in the Masons that his wife was allowed to join the same lodge. After she'd put months of work in, she was informed by the exam board that the Masons was 'not a suitable subject for a history project'.
AlfredTheMid@reddit
Yeah i reckon she'd probably get the same tour, but we'd have to inform her that we'd be pointing her towards the female lodges instead of ours!
IndividualCurious322@reddit
What about the Shriners or Order of the Odd Oddfellows. Both are heavily tied to masonry.
AlfredTheMid@reddit
Shriners are what's called an "appendant body" or 'side order'... which sounds like something you get with a burger. There arent many of them in the uk unfortunately, theyre a fun order that raises a lot of money for hospitals i think. There's loads of those orders, including the famous Rose Croix, the Americans sometimes call it the Scottish Rite - that's the one with the 33 degrees. So whenever you hear about a "33 degree mason", it means they're in that side order. They aren't any higher than a normal Mason, just in a different optional side order.
Odd Fellows are interesting, very similar to masonry but not affiliated. I've thought about joining them a few times
SDHester1971@reddit
There's also The Buffalos, my Grandfather was a Member
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Antediluvian_Order_of_Buffaloes?wprov=sfla1
Good0times@reddit
What is the secret knock knock code
AlfredTheMid@reddit
You'll have to join and find out lol
Jaytalk95@reddit
Wish I wondered into your club mate.
muonmike@reddit
"wondering into a club". Possible new eggcorn.
jdsuperman@reddit
This is a popular one. I know a guy who runs a travel blog and can't seem to stop himself from using "wonder" instead of "wander" in every article he writes.
Mithent@reddit
It sounds like your curiosity resulted in joining the club, perhaps.
No_Astronaut3059@reddit
Wonderlust should definitely already be one.
AlfredTheMid@reddit
A real shame you had that experience of the freemasons tbh. Most lodges would welcome visitors with open arms! One of the best and friendliest groups I've ever been a part of on the whole
ionthrown@reddit
My understanding is that most masons are now open about membership, but can choose to keep it secret - would lodges act differently if they still had secret members?
TurbulentWeb1941@reddit
Well, go into his club next time and ask for Mason. 🤝
AlternativeSea8247@reddit
That's not the right handshake emoji.... that's the one to get off speeding fines /s
claydentures@reddit
Would love to sit down and have a beer with you sometime mate
rubber-bumpers@reddit
Like a Christian Union at uni and toasties
iwanttobeacavediver@reddit
My town’s lodge has actually been opened to the public before now for tours.
lavenderacid@reddit
I wandered into the local lodge to find some auld fella sat by himself who essentially begged my friend to join. He said their average member age was 80, but covid wiped most of them out so now they're down to 50. Said they couldn't really attract new members.
AlfredTheMid@reddit
That'll probably be the Tyler, he sits outside the door of the lodge during a meeting. Unfortunately many lodges have succumbed to ageing membership that was further destroyed by Covid. Ours thankfully has a thriving younger membership and is very healthy!
VixenRoss@reddit
I’ve met a Freemason in the local pub. He teaches everyone a funny handshake and when he’s pissed he’ll roll his trouser leg up. He describes it as real life Facebook when pressed. Really chill guy!
ZimbabweSaltCo@reddit
Yeah I was quite disheartened when I saw it got mentioned they were fellow Masons, as you say, we’ve had people curious at mine and we just show them the public bits and tell them about any open days coming up.
Nolsoth@reddit
NZ lodges can be a bit hit and miss with their friendliness. Our Buffalo lodges however are always welcoming.
Punished__Allegri@reddit
Have you not heard of Propaganda Due (P2) ?
Efficient_Steak_7568@reddit (OP)
He was naked though
westcoast5556@reddit
This is cool.
westcoast5556@reddit
Masons are all pricks.
Kitchen_Ad1529@reddit
They really aren't.
PumpkinSpice2Nice@reddit
I’m female so obviously not one but I know several men who are members and they are all very respectful selfless people. I don’t know exactly what they do but if I had to guess it would be charitable work.
Bonsuella_Banana@reddit
There are lodges that accept ladies now if you were interested! Many don't, but a few have started moving into the 21st century
Nolsoth@reddit
Mostly yes. The core ethos is to serve the community and help raise people up without making a fuss over it.
Percinho@reddit
I'm not a mason but have friends who are, and tbh they're just like any other group of people I've met. Some are lovely, most are just fine, some are picks.
westcoast5556@reddit
I think I have only met bad ones in my later life I guess. It's true I used to know some good eggs who were masons, a long time ago though.
Dark_Akarin@reddit
I dunno, I’m not a Masson but the only one I know is helping me become a charted engineer, great guy.
ihitrockswithammers@reddit
Won’t someone help find the uncharted engineers 😢
TurbulentWeb1941@reddit
They're putting their best Masons on it as we speak.
Brickworkse@reddit
You've met all six million of them, have you?
zq6@reddit
^Another one confirmed
Thi13een@reddit
Absolute virgins.
Gold_Razzmatazz4696@reddit
You have nearly thirty three thousand Internet points from posting on reddit. I have just over 3.5k and I'm embarrassed, don't throw stones in glass houses maybe
Thi13een@reddit
I just comment on things. I don’t decide how many internet points I get
Gold_Razzmatazz4696@reddit
Assuming 15 upvotes per comment its 2,200 comments, and Internet points will generally be less than that per comment. If your making thousands of comments your still in virgin territory regardless of who upvotes you
YazmindaHenn@reddit
Or they've made many comments that others agrees with.
You're literally trying to slag someone for doing the the literal exact thing you're doing right now.
Nah, they're still virgins, weirdos looking to get into an "exclusive" club that only they care about.
Nobody cares about how many points they have for the comments they've left.
Gold_Razzmatazz4696@reddit
Wow, have you ever heard of irony?? Yes I'm trying ti slag someone off for exactly the same thing to foster some self awareness, and obviously to stop an entire group of people being called virgins based on an individual. Do I really have to put /s for dense people like yourself to understand that??
Wild_Ad_10@reddit
Shut up virgin
Good0times@reddit
I once hosted a party for some freemasons in some shitty hotel. They were playing games and throwing money around like Monopoly, literally playing Monopoly. Then everything got donated to charity. Weird experience
AdrianFish@reddit
Sounds about right for masons. Shitheads
steelicarus@reddit
Also a mason, surprised you weren’t invited in and bought a pint .
Current_Election6611@reddit
Jaytalk?
More like Jaywalk ;)
Swordfish1929@reddit
When I was 15 I accidentally walked into the room the freemasons were using at the community centre where I did drama classes (they were in our normal room) and one of the guys physically shoved me out and hit me with the door as he slammed it in my face. Can't stand Freemasons
fat_mummy@reddit
I was once doing service for a Freemasons event and was told “once the men start playing the drums on stage, you put whatever you have down on these tables, and leave”… it was fab. They were all lovely to me (my first event) and gave me a tip, and because they were late coming in, I did about an hours worth of work for a full nights pay!
reginafilangestwin@reddit
Must have been sacrifice night
Thunder_Curls@reddit
Me and some mates went to Kenya in the early 2000's. After doing charity work for a couple weeks building school class rooms we took a day off and went for a walk.
Alot of this walk were mostly thick forests but then it opened up into a field. We then started hearing whistle noises, about 20 of them just over us. Then an explosion happened about 10 meters away.
Turned out we accidentally walked into a Kenyan military practice range, those whistle noises above our heads were bullets and the explosion next to us was a mortar shell.
phatboi23@reddit
you got very fuckin' lucky there.
easily-distracte@reddit
This is almost a scene out of a Malcolm in the Middle episode!
Thunder_Curls@reddit
Ha ha yes! Too bad Louis wasn't there shouting "BOYS!!" - otherwise it could have been avoided
savagelysideways101@reddit
Accidently drove into a Lockheed Mossley factory in florida. Not only did I get stopped by soldiers with guns, they called some of their buddies to escort me not only of property, but all the way back to my hotel
underrated_prunes@reddit
Haha I had something similar as a young lad. Drove an ice cream van into a military base in UK(took the wrong turn). At the time I still had my Eastern European accent. It was my first time driving manual since the test and the first time driving the van. I couldn’t find the reverse and the soldiers had to push me back out. Still chuckle when I remember that episode. They were very friendly.
spamjavelin@reddit
Did they get some free ice cream for their troubles? That'd go a ways to explaining it.
DoIKnowYouHuman@reddit
Are you imagining a group of hardened squaddies holding an SA80 in one hand while gleefully licking a 99 flake from the other?
phatboi23@reddit
knowing squaddies...
yeah this is exactly how it'd happen :D
adymann@reddit
I'm imagining Banksy could paint this.
yorkspirate@reddit
I wasn't but I am now
GXWT@reddit
There seems nothing more fitting
spamjavelin@reddit
Yeah, they're still human beings!
deltree000@reddit
Copy & paste from an old story of mine I love;
Cornishlee@reddit
The Station Commander on my old RAF base was driven around in a Vauxhall Vectra in 2004 so I can believe a Cavalier would have been used at some point!
twobit211@reddit
you met biggles
StrawberryF5@reddit
Either Biggles or one of the airmen from 'Allo 'Allo!.
fiery-sparkles@reddit
I can picture this as if it's from a movie.
It's all eerily quiet when suddenly an ice cream van comes into shot with the 'ice cream music' playing. If looks completely innocent until BANG‼️ the van explodes taking a few soldiers with it
Jolly-Bandicoot7162@reddit
Standing guard is boring, you probably brightened their day up!
UruquianLilac@reddit
Accidently drove into a Lockheed ~~Mossley~~ missile factory
Edit: typo
It's the most pedantic thing I've done today, but I felt a deep need to bring order into this chaos.
highlandharris@reddit
I accidentally drove into the back of a police station in Serbia thinking it was a car park then approached by armed police, was very confused but they ended up helping me find my Airbnb
Efficient_Steak_7568@reddit (OP)
Damn but how bad is their security that you were able to accidentally do that lol
ClingerOn@reddit
I’ve done it and it’s just a road off the freeway if I remember correctly. There’s signage but it used to look like the kind of sign that suggests Lockheed is just one of the businesses down this normal looking road rather than this is the entrance. Once you get in it’s a one way system and the exit brings you out round the corner somewhere.
Worst part is the exit road leads back towards the entrance so it’s easy to drive right back in. Which I did. Twice.
fiery-sparkles@reddit
That's hilarious m, like Mr Bean
savagelysideways101@reddit
I guess they didn't expect disney tourists to drive down a road like that!
ClingerOn@reddit
I’ve done this. The worst part is the road leading in to it is a bit confusing so I did it three times in a row. Second time the guards were annoyed. Third time they pissed themselves laughing.
savagelysideways101@reddit
I maybe done this after you, hence the armed escort back to the hotel!
bps706@reddit
Do you mean missile?
P33ph0le@reddit
Not sure it quite fits the bill but it still makes me laugh.
I went on a school trip to Canterbury Cathedral, my friend and I ended up wondering off cos we were bored, and started playing hide and seek down near a crypt (I think).
At one point I thought I could hear my friend coming so I jumped out and yelled, only to then realise it was a nun who was absolutely petrified!
I ran for my life back to my group and hoped the teacher didn't realise we'd gone!
just4junk20@reddit
Stayed back in the classroom with a few others while the rest of the class went off to swimming lessons in year 5.
We were in these mobile classrooms that was on the far end of a massive playground so no concerns of being caught, and we knew the code to the door. We were all goody two-shoes as well so would just clean up the classroom and put YouTube videos on the computer!
Did it for the entire term and never got caught… How the teacher didn’t do a headcount and realise is beyond me.
Confident_South7390@reddit
Once drove into a military sight in Northern Spain completely by accident. Took the wrong road in the mountains. Must’ve been their Area 51 as loads of camo clad dudes appeared. They were cool and I apologised and turned round.
jesuseatsbees@reddit
When I was about 14, a friend and I went round town seeing if we could get a job anywhere. We'd walk into a shop, ask for the manager and then ask if they'd hire us for a weekend job. When we did this in M&S, however, it got a bit weird. We asked someone on the shop floor for a manager, they passed us to someone, we asked 'are you the manager?' They said no, go speak to this person... this happened several times until we ended up on the top floor in a back office with a bemused-looking manager sat behind a big wooden desk, wondering why two awkward 14-year-olds were allowed unaccompanied into her office.
She didn't give us a job and she was pleasant enough to us, but you could tell by her face someone was about to get a bollocking.
OreoSpamBurger@reddit
Lol, they probably thought you'd been assaulted in the changing rooms or summat.
UruquianLilac@reddit
It's probably the "they don't pay me enough to deal with this shit, let the next person up deal with it" attitude all the way to the top.
Franksss@reddit
I love this
Professional-You4133@reddit
Inside your mom bro.
Efficient_Steak_7568@reddit (OP)
Hey Dad
Professional-You4133@reddit
Hey son listen I'm sorry I've not been around but your mom just nags at me all the time man, I've got to be free like a bird, I can't be chained down.
Forgetful8nine@reddit
Hey, whilst you're out, can you grab some milk, please?
Aargh_a_ghost@reddit
And a dictionary to learn how to spell mum right
Forgetful8nine@reddit
(Psst...you replied to the wrong comment...)
Aargh_a_ghost@reddit
No no, I was adding to your comment dude
Professional-You4133@reddit
Sure kid, don't wait up though.
solidair1980@reddit
in first year of uni after a drunken night out, about 5 of us somehow ended up in the school across the road from my halls as they had left one of the doors open, 6 years later ended up working there as a probationary teacher
mike20070@reddit
I've just remembered another one. I once had to go to have an ultrasound scan on my testicles. I found the whole experience hugely embarrassing, then I got up and walked through the wrong door, into the store cupboard and closed the door behind me.
Aargh_a_ghost@reddit
I know your awkwardness, I’ve been there before, sat in a waiting room full of pregnant women, me with a penis and no baby growing inside of me, I could sense the evil looks when I got called before all the women, I went in to get the scan, they thankfully put the gel on the radiator to warm it up, my balls came up on the screen and I said “oh god, its twins” which got no laughs at all from the woman scanning my balls and her TWO trainees, they then chucked some tissues at me and told me to clear myself up, I felt like a cheap slut
OreoSpamBurger@reddit
Mark...you're in the stationary cupboard?
QOTAPOTA@reddit
Shit. I wanted the moving cupboard?
mike20070@reddit
That's right Jeff.
Efficient_Steak_7568@reddit (OP)
Bet that was a shock for Sally the receptionist getting more staples
CthulhusEvilTwin@reddit
Took some Polish friends on a road trip in Wales and accidentally found our way into the big chemical/cement works near Port Talbot. First we knew about it was when we ran into a checkpoint and realised it was the way out. I guess because we were a group of twelve in a white minibus they just waved us through
Fit_Manufacturer4568@reddit
Port Talbot Steel Works?
YchYFi@reddit
There is more than the Steelworks there. Probably Heidelberg Materials Cement.
CthulhusEvilTwin@reddit
Yeah I think it was a cement works or similar - all I remember is the confused look on the security guard's face as we appeared from the depths of the complex in a van (looking equally confused).
Bbew_Mot@reddit
The site of the Teletubbies and Tot's TV film sets. They're in adjacent fields so you can see two former film sets in one trespassing session. There's nothing left of the Teletubbies set but the Tot's TV house is still standing albeit in a heavily dilapidated state.
eilataneroomOG@reddit
I’m a tot, Je suis un tot
hhfugrr3@reddit
I was told the other day that whoever owns the teletubbies field got so fed up with trespassers that he turned it into a lake!
Bacon4Lyf@reddit
That isn’t true, it’s an urban myth, the planning permission stated that they had to turn the filming site back into nature when finished, and the easiest thing was lake
AmosEgg@reddit
Location is here 52°07'31.9"N 1°42'12.4"W The Tubby dome supposedly is still there under the water
Hitonatsu-no-Keiken@reddit
Imagine how fed up the owner of the lake would be if he got lots of divers going down to look at the Tubby dome!
Moniker_Geller7@reddit
Should have charged for visits!
GruffScottishGuy@reddit
Pretty sure the Tots TV one is gone now too due to too many trespassers.
Bbew_Mot@reddit
Oh no! I heard it was more heavily vandalised after I went but did the landowners demolish it?
GruffScottishGuy@reddit
I believe so, I could be wrong though. Like the Teletubbies place, it blew up after hitting Youtube. I'd watched a few of the videos and you can see changes to the place from video to video as more and more people have been there and done/taken stuff.
Bbew_Mot@reddit
I went in 2018 but I first heard about it in a video from 2013. In 2013, the front door was still intact but that was gone when I went there (I sometimes wonder if someone stole it and put in a display cabinet in their lounge). I've seen more recent photos of the place and there does seem to have been some structural damage since then.
Interstellore@reddit
You violated Po.
Inner-Conference-644@reddit
😁😁😁😁
Hamsternoir@reddit
You used to be able to get in to Blobby Land at Cricket St Thomas after the wildlife park was closed down. No idea what's there now though.
OreoSpamBurger@reddit
Someone posted from there not too long ago (well, within ten years I think), it was still slowly decaying.
ikothsowe@reddit
Used to work in Castle Street in Liverpool. The building had a basement from which you could access the network of tunnels that run under the Dale Street area. Fascinating, dark and creepy as fuck. All sorts of abandoned furniture, equipment, filing cabinets and boxes. I never did explore the whole network.
SeaweedClean5087@reddit
There was a legend that someone had climbed up to the bell tower on top of out school. It must have been e been 150 foot high. No one could say who it was or when so I decided to give it a go.
I climbed up the outside of the building and got there to find there was no bell and that it was pretty disappointing. The climb down was way more scary and I’m lucky I didn’t kill myself.
I like to think my legend lives on but I somehow doubt it. It probably would have been more noteworthy if I’d been caught.
jaymatthewbee@reddit
Once ran through a farmers field of wheat
Caraphox@reddit
First reference to this I’ve heard in a while but I love that it won’t die
The_Queef_of_England@reddit
Why did this pop into my head too?
icemonsoon@reddit
I tried this with corn and its almost impossible
ThrowRAMomVsGF@reddit
Oooh, we were running with our bikes through a farmer's field of wheat and also flattening some areas to just hang out. He eventually noticed us and started chasing us with his tractor. Don't remember if it was our BMX or Mountain bike era, but we did get away unscathed :D
DJToffeebud@reddit
It’s a slippery slope you’ll be doing shady deals with Northern Ireland paramilitary groups next.
Ecstatic_Food1982@reddit
Ulster says no!
homeruleforneasden@reddit
But the man from del monte he says yes.
And he's an orange man.
(I can't claim this - someone told me they saw it painted on a wall once).
ZakalaUK@reddit
I think you'll find that the Tango man is orange ;)
meyoumehim@reddit
you never seen the TV advert ? https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=2KzmzQFtZbGm0VO7&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&source_ve_path=MTY0OTksMjg2NjQsMTY0NTA2&v=nm6bKkG_Mrc&feature=youtu.be
Ecstatic_Food1982@reddit
Yeah, I used go work with a chap who wore a linen suit who we called Del Monte. Had to explain it to the younger staff though.
Ecstatic_Food1982@reddit
This is brilliant.
anonbush234@reddit
What did she do with the loyalists? I don't remember that?
HermitBee@reddit
£1b extra NI funding in return for a confidence and supply agreement with the DUP.
neilm1000@reddit
When she said that, I immediately thought of the wheat field in Gladiator and thought she'd had some sort of after death experience. Took me a few seconds to realise that she actually meant it.
Unusual_Wind_7270@reddit
Naughty.
devildance3@reddit
Ffs 😂😂😂
Secludeddawn@reddit
Oh Theresa, such a rebel
Former-Variation-441@reddit
Well I never knew you were on Reddit! Don't forget to remind Phil it's bin day on Monday.
Ethroptur@reddit
Naughty. I'm telling.
DJToffeebud@reddit
I bet the farmer wasn’t to pleased about it
funkkay@reddit
Sounds thrilling!
quackers987@reddit
And you're ok with openly admitting that on a public forum? You better be careful, MI5 will be waiting for you when you get home.
thatscotbird@reddit
This made me spit my tea out
Efficient_Steak_7568@reddit (OP)
No way
bidtch@reddit
Abandoned buildings urbexing, abandoned/service floors of hotels, closed malls, abandoned service roads, in-use logging/service roads, out of bounds areas while skiing (but many people do this)
Mundane_Recover1970@reddit
Years of running through farmers fields and climbing into abandoned buildings etc.
I also had a penchant for climbing ontop of schools.
Flibtonian@reddit
After one or two too many beers I ended up on a roof at CERN.
Inside_Sentence_6116@reddit
Went into a drug den (which I wasn’t unfamiliar with) but this was a proper crack den, only used to sell like 20 quid worth of bud give or take to my mates at a time, then first lockdown happened and fuck me, I was out of my depth
harrietmjones@reddit
In primary school, we got a new section build into the side of the school, where the staff room, headmasters office and the register storage was and we weren’t allowed in that area/corridor unless we were on register duty or we were walking into the dining hall (which one of the entrances into the hall was).
Anyway, the door into this section of the school from outside, was keypad locked.
At lunch, we would have to walk all the way around to the front of the school to get into the hall but through this door, it was literally ten seconds to get there.
Me being me, one day my class were lead through this door to get inside by our teacher and whilst she were typing in the code, I subtly kept my eyes on where her fingers were going and memorised the movements/motions, since I couldn’t actually see the numbers.
Lunch came around that particular day and I decided to see if I could get that door to open myself. So, when no one was around, I tested what I thought it was out and it worked! I quickly shut the door, just in case I was pushing my luck this time.
I did however, make the mistake of telling others that I knew the code. No one dobbed me in but it became known, after a few weeks of sneaking into school/the hall this way, that a lot of us children knew the code, so they changed it so we couldn’t use it anymore.
However, I memorised it again!
Then some ‘technical issue’ happened and they had to resort back to the original pass code.
Oh, and if you were wondering what it was, I can still remember it! It looked like a backwards L, so it was:
3-6-9-8
(I also did a similar thing in my first high school too!)
EconomyDisastrous409@reddit
Alton towers used to have a hole in the fence...
Neither_Ad_8825@reddit
I love exploring the parts of hotels that guests aren’t supposed to be in. Nowt better than finding a service corridor or a door to somewhere interesting, like a closed pool or a store room with the little packs of biscuits.
DonaldTrunt@reddit
When I was about 14 or so, my friends and I found a way to access a corridor that acted as a utility or access corridor for a large number.bee of stores in our shopping centre.
It effectively ran behind a row of shops and a number of them just left stock lying about with people very rarely coming in or out as everyone just accessed their stores from the front
After leaving we came up with a grand plan of taking stuff from it and selling it on to make money, before realising that's literally just theft and dropping the idea completely.
TurbulentWeb1941@reddit
This access corridor, was it like the one in T2 where Arnie turns up with a gun in a box of flowers to save John from the liquid metal fella? 😎🤏
MrsFuckinTommyShelby@reddit
This is exactly what I pictured too.
dickwildgoose@reddit
And the pepsi vending machine guy gets wasted. The big silly.
OreoSpamBurger@reddit
This is the sort of thing, where, looking back, and if you'd shut up about it, you could have had free chewing gum (or whatever) for years.
But young people are stupid.
Efficient_Steak_7568@reddit (OP)
You could have taken a souvenir!
HannaaaLucie@reddit
Way too many times to recount. I wasn't as bad as a child, but as a teen.. I spent 90% of my time in places I shouldn't be!
Joy_3DMakes@reddit
Abandoned mental asylum in Salisbury. It got knocked down a few years ago but me and my friends used to play manhunt in it.
It was a super creepy place. Had satanic symbols all over the place, horror messages, dark tunnels underground... It was also falling apart. We got caught a couple times but managed to run
coocoomberz@reddit
Knocked down you say? This wasn't Fisherton House that's now been converted into some plush retirement suites?
Joy_3DMakes@reddit
I believe so, I know it as the old manor?
_DeanRiding@reddit
Oh fuck was that Whittingham Asylum? I went there with my mates once and there were still old records there when they qere in the process of knocking it down. It was indeed super creepy.
Joy_3DMakes@reddit
No, it was in Salisbury...
_DeanRiding@reddit
Oh shit sorry lol I'm thinking of Salmesbury, which isn't exactly correct either
Acrylic_Starshine@reddit
I once sneaked into Buckingham palace and sat on the end of the queen's bed as she slept soundly.
YorkshirePuddingScot@reddit
Nah Mike, you got away with shagging the monarch (and I'd bet more than once).
EmberTheFoxyFox@reddit
Been in the girls changing room at school by mistake.
Told to go into a corridor to get the room the exam was being held in, in an area of the school I had never been in, down the corner was two doors, both completely unlabeled and looked the same, straight on or go right.
Both doors had a wall just inside so that you couldn't see in from the outside and only knew which room you were in once you were fully inside.
Odetospot24@reddit
Cycled on the roads literally through a steel works site , next to the blast furnaces. After about 40 minutes we were escorted off, I had to follow a security truck. A classic example of telling your bf I don't think we are supposed to be here , the cycle route signs didn't point this way etc , oh don't be silly you worry too much. Never enjoyed saying the world's I told you so, so much.
Puzzleheaded-Act3746@reddit
I once stayed on the train after the station which was supposed to be terminated, So I went into a tunnel and turned back to the station after five minutes!
theshortlady@reddit
Being in the vestry of the church at my Catholic school and eating communion wafers. No wine found.
winch25@reddit
I used to be into urban exploring and nothing has ever recreated the thrill of hiding in a high profile building site or abandoned underground whilst there is somebody looking for you.
Ecstatic_Food1982@reddit
Do security etc actively look for you?
Cold_Introduction_48@reddit
Yeah, you just gotta hide in a cardboard box that matches the others in the room though. The exclamation marks soon disappear.
winch25@reddit
If they know you're in there then it's their job to. Some places had patrols. Battersea Power station before it was developed, for instance.
_DeanRiding@reddit
Camelot, before it was turned into a themed horror experience, too.
NoGiNoProblem@reddit
"What was that noise?"
"Whose footprints are these?"
messedup73@reddit
When I was a teenager we lived in a seaside town snuck into many a holiday camp and caravan site to explore go swimming etc.In the 80 s no one ever stopped us was so much fun always stuff to do.
QOTAPOTA@reddit
Same. Hiding from the site patrols. Unfortunately the staff stared to recognise us so kicked us out pretty quickly.
hammer_of_science@reddit
The Parliamentary Group on Military Studies.
I was supposed to be in a different event and took a wrong turn.
Mark Francois is as short as you think.
Vespa_Alex@reddit
I was exploring the old Central TV studios on broad street in Birmingham (which wasn’t exactly legit in its own right) and accidentally ended up in the basement of Alpha Tower next door. Noped out of there ASAP!
Secret-Plum149@reddit
I went to Plaistow once… Enough said really. 🤷♂️
CorpusCalossum@reddit
Used to do a bit of "urban exploration" around shopping malls as a teen.
Down one passageway found a ladder to a trapdoor that let us into the ceiling above the shops.
We moved around on little catwalks, looking down through the grid-style light fittings into jewelers etc. Wondering if we could lift the panels and get things with fishing rods. Went up there twice, and on a 3rd attempt, got stopped, after that the hatch was padlocked.
jdsuperman@reddit
Spent a few years doing urban exploring, so yes. It was usually pretty fun.
Purple_Jump_7403@reddit
What is urban exploring? Is that like climbing cranes and sneaking onto rooftops?
privateTortoise@reddit
https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/
https://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/
https://urbexforum.org/
jdsuperman@reddit
As a couple of other commenters mentioned, some urban explorers do that stuff, but it's more about exploring abandoned places and seeing what they're like. I'm not into heights, so climbing cranes and bridges etc was never my thing, although sometimes you'd have to climb a little bit, or go across rooftops, to access different buildings.
SoggyWotsits@reddit
The idea is to explore abandoned building. Unfortunately some people are trying too hard for good pictures and videos and entering places that aren’t actually abandoned.
KezzyKesKes@reddit
Yes or stomping across people’s gardens at 2am to gain access to the property next door thinking they wouldn’t be seen. My eight dogs chased them off and they had the pleasure of our security lighting showing them the exit.
missuseme@reddit
That is the more extreme end, most people just sneak into abandoned buildings to explore them.
matt_paradise@reddit
Going in to abandoned/vacant properties
mines-a-pint@reddit
Done a bit of this; an abandoned railway tunnel was fun; a site that had been “land banked” by Tesco for over a decade, with a view to some gorilla gardening (not suitable, gorilla gardened elsewhere); a police-taped area after a landslide on the Isle of Wight, that sort of thing; but the best one was the (supposedly inaccessible) rooftop of my friend’s flat in Notting Hill, from where you could climb onto the roof of the next-door NatWest Bank and watch the procession below during the carnival…
Steamboat_Willey@reddit
I remember walking into an empty yard so I could get a peek over the fence at an abandoned railway line, only for the owner of the property to appear, to close the gate. I quickly exited before I got locked in.
Efficient_Steak_7568@reddit (OP)
It’s the risk that I like
QOTAPOTA@reddit
I went for a jog along the beach at Formby. I could hear alarms/sirens going off (faintly) in the distance but wasn’t really paying attention - it’s near Liverpool so lots of sirens (joke). Next thing I know there’s a golf buggy thing along side me with an angry man driving it and telling me to get in as I’ve ran into the firing range. He said you’re not local are you? Not really, no. Apparently there are signs that it’s the military’s firing range but they are up by the dunes. I was by the sea and the tide was out. No signs there which is pretty fucking stupid if you ask me. Relying on one sign at the dunes and on local knowledge doesn’t qualify for doing enough to inform the public they could get shot by some blood thirsty soldier. I’ve been told I’m not the first. No shit, wonder why.
Icy-Revolution6105@reddit
Used the teachers toilets a couple of times in school. felt quite badass. Was never caught
LXPeanut@reddit
A few times. Once accidentally walked into a room full of armed police getting ready for a raid. Another I took a wrong turn and ended up in the BBC area backstage at Glastonbury.
StationFar6396@reddit
Once at uni I got drunk and me and my girlfriend of the moment snuck into the dinner hall in the middle of the night and drank loads of fizzy drinks from the dispensary, then we threw up in the bushes outside. She’s now head of a large accountancy firm and I still tease her about it. Good times.
BarryFairbrother@reddit
On a school trip we got to visit Downing Street and posed for a photo in front of Number 10. The joker of the class turned around, casually opened the door and walked in, shutting the door behind him. The standard policeman had moved aside to let us take the photo. The kid was in there for a good 30 seconds before being escorted out. This was 1998 so different world security-wise. And pre-Love Actually and easy online photo access, so no one really knew what was behind the door.
reginafilangestwin@reddit
I worked in a salon/spa in this huge old building and got locked in the storeroom once so while I was waiting to be let out i thought I'd try the mysterious door at the back. It led into an adjoining apartment block that was all locked up in the front. I ran around the corridors and upstairs for a bit til I remembered I was working
Another time I wanted to skip class but couldn't be bothered to sneak off the grounds so I went and sat outside the headteacher's office for an hour. Loads of staff passed but no one questioned me
When I was a kid, about 5, I used to sneak downstairs in my nightie and open the back door. I'd run around the street in front of the house manically enjoying my freedom. I've always loved that feeling of "no one knows I'm here" (in a non creepy way)
OreoSpamBurger@reddit
What class was so shit that sitting on your own in a corridor for an hour was preferable lol?!!
Classic-Scarcity-804@reddit
I mean nowadays an hour to yourself, completely uninterrupted, is worth more than money.
reginafilangestwin@reddit
I just needed some me-time 😆
Uhura-hoop@reddit
I totally get that
JustMiniBanana_2@reddit
In secondary school there where toilets, that for some reason always locked, but on the rare occasion they weren't, always felt like I'd get locked in there. They where the cleanest too.
newforestroadwarrior@reddit
I managed to find myself airside at an airport while making a delivery once. Not recommended.
anomalous_cowherd@reddit
I went for a work meeting at a customer's very secure site. While I was checking in at reception an employee said "I'm just going to that building so I can escort you there".
When we got to the meeting it had already started so he just let me in then went to his own office and I sat down quietly.
After a few minutes it became obvious that I was in the wrong meeting and they were talking about things I definitely shouldn't have been hearing, so I stood up, apologised for being in the wrong room, and left.
Leaving me alone wandering the corridors of a high security site with no idea where to go. This place had roaming armed guards in the UK, which is pretty unusual.
I realised how bad this could get and grabbed the first friendly looking person I saw, explained what had happened and they figured out where I should be and took me there.
Somebody probably should have got a major bollicking for that, but I think it all stayed under the radar!
Usernamesarehassle@reddit
Good job it stayed under the radar it had the potential to go nuclear
anomalous_cowherd@reddit
Nope, nothing nuclear involved.
Usernamesarehassle@reddit
Bluff
Mister_Sith@reddit
Oof someone most certainly would get bollocked for that in my experience. I have found myself awkwardly ambling about places trying to find things and realise it might be mildly suspicious wandering around unfamiliar offices.
anomalous_cowherd@reddit
Weirdly it probably wouldn't be me as the visitor but the various people who left me unescorted. As long as I didn't start peering through windows and taking photos or anything stupid like that!
Mister_Sith@reddit
Oh yeah its totally on the escorts. If its the type of place I think it is, someone has dropped a proper clanger for leaving visitors unattended
MacDonaldKe@reddit
Was with my family in the Seychelles back in the 90s. My brother and I were bored so we went for a walk. He was 12 or 13 and I was 9 or 10. Left the hotel and followed the road round above the beach. Definitely remember walking past a guard box/checkpoint but it was unoccupied so we just kept walking. Found a large sprawling building site with a cool beach and a boat doxk where we hung out daily. One day some geezer comes and asks what we're doing/that we're trespassing/where are the parents. Explained that we were doing nothing when he explained that his employer is very private and we shouldn't be there before he sent someone to the hotel to collect our parents. My mum was mortified.
I've told this story as an adult and didn't quite realise at the time how wildly irresponsible it was for our parents to let us fuck off for a half day every day without checking on us. Bearing in mind our hotel had its own beach. Who knows what we were thinking.
SmolKits@reddit
I haven't really been anywhere I shouldn't be but someone I know managed to sneak into a Bon Jovi gig because they found some discarded wrist bands
cyberllama@reddit
Glastonbury 1995. Couple of mates drove up on a whim and went over the fence. Spent the weekend dabbling with substances and crashing in various tents. It was great. Got sacked on Tuesday for being not entirely sober when I crawled in after not showing up the day before.
misscat15@reddit
I don't remember it very well as I was about 10 but a bit of the Capitol Building in DC that only Americans were supposed to go to, we went behind a velvet rope down an empty corridor and came out at a place where we could watch what was going on at Congress. This was mid 90s. I remember it being full of security personnel when we walked out and they looked at us very strangely when we spoke. I really don't remember it very well unfortunately as I found it all kind of boring and I still don't know why my dad said we should go that way that was clearly marked out of bounds.
Beginning-Leek8545@reddit
School trip. Guided tour of Buckingham Palace. Left the group for about 15 minutes to have my own look around in areas not part of tour. Was eventually found by a maid who escorted me back to my teacher. Parents called in following day and got a weeks detention
fost1692@reddit
Your parents got detention that's hard.
Twat_Wagon@reddit
A week in the Tower of London
j1mb0b@reddit
Queeny didn't fuck around...
nameltrab@reddit
You’re lucky Andrew or Sir Jimmy weren’t around!
hhfugrr3@reddit
Feels kinda like the teachers failed to properly supervise to me! Maybe they should have the detention.
Lululapagaille@reddit
Those bloody teachers !
octopusinatrenchcoat@reddit
Worth it!
Carphead@reddit
On the 3rd October 1995 I found myself on stage at the Norwich UEA with Shaun Ryder and the rest of Black Grape. I shook Bez's hand before flying through the air and landing on my arse.
falsetwat@reddit
Was in Rome sightseeing earlier this year. Walked up to a museum and there was a person out front waiving us in. Wondered in and was directed towards the back of a crowd. Once at the back I was directed to get a chair, looked at the front of the room and it was a summit for something ecological. Walked round the back of the museum, looked at my partner and gave the we should get out of here eyes, through the back of the museum, looked at a couple cool ship relics and left.
Apidium@reddit
My college had 3 floors. Except it didn't. It had 4. The lift went up to 4 and one of the stairwells did too.
I liked it up there. It was quiet. It was dark. They seemed to use it as a storage space for like broken chairs and shit.
I would go up there and hide whenever I thought I was going to have a panic attack. Nowhere else was quiet.
devilsolution@reddit
loads but in terms of cloak rooms, it was ez pickings for pokemon cards back in year 2
SupermotoArchitect@reddit
Once stayed in a hotel in Milan, we found the fire escape staircase and walked to the top. The door at the top was open, and opened straight onto the penthouse's garden. This was a sort of colonnaded space, so it didn't just feel like a roof garden, more like a private enclosed area. It was cool. Good memories. We didn't enter just stood and looked for a few minutes and left. Think it was vacant anyway.
New-account-01@reddit
Lots of illegal raves back in the 90s, held in warehouses, forests and underground carparks etc.
Scoobydoobydoo22@reddit
Our car broke down in the M1 motorway. We stopped in the hard shoulder waiting for AA. I needed a pi55 so took an Umbarella and climbed down the side and had a pee with the brolly covering my dignity. I as I got up there was a cop watching me to ask what I was doing under my brolly.
I also went into a graveyard at night to play hide and seek 😂.
mrfluffypants1504@reddit
I snuck into Glastonbury in 1997 (I was not quite 16). I just went in through the main gate with my stepmum and she dropped us off. We saw Jamie Theakston (90's heartthrob presenter) as we got out the car and he said hi to my sister and I.
Was an experience I'll never forget but one I never want to repeat. It was the year of the mud. I got super drunk, had a 3 day hangover and on the first day, I fell face first in the mud and had very little to wash it off.
ThePylonTalksToMe@reddit
I attended the Brit Awards at Earls Court in 2000. We were sat in The White Hart in Fulham and just randomly decided to head over. Two of us got in by scaling a fence next to a railway line and then going down a very small tunnel filled with what I assume were electrics and what not for the building.
Some other friends got handed tickets by people leaving and we met up inside.
I met Will Smith, Tom Jones and that nice gay fella from Boyzone.
We got into the inhouse after party but no one of any real significance was in there, I imagine they went off to the Groucho or somewhere.
There were PlayStations set up and young women carrying around Marlboro cigarettes on trays.
Also saw Billie Piper arguing with her then boyfriend, Richy from 5ive. Maybe he found out she was boning Chris Evans?
Highlight of the night was literally bumping into Bill Bailey and swapping apologies with each other.
meatballs2022@reddit
Back in the late 80's a group of us around the age of 10yo were at an amusement park that had loads of zoo animals as well as rides ect. a group of us snuck in to this building that had the typical "Staff Only" sign on the door. As we entered why sneaking around exploring ect. We then came across this massive pool with a dolphin swimming around on it own. The dolphin spotted us lot, then came up to us making dolphin sounds then it hit this plastic floating ball with its nose knocking the ball out of the water into our direction wanting us lot to play with it. For the next few minutes we were passing the ball back to the dolphin why the dolphin hit the ball back at us, then we heard someone shout angrily at us, so we all ran off.
To be fair im glad it was a happy dolphin we came across why we were all young and dumb because that zoo also had lions, crocs, apes and god knows what other Apex animals who's habitats we could of walked in to.
Emergency-Aardvark-6@reddit
I, (F) used to use the mens toilets when clubbing when I was younger, as there was always a huge queue for the ladies.
Uhura-hoop@reddit
Oh I’ve done this several times 😆
Efficient_Steak_7568@reddit (OP)
Risky strategy
ThePsychDiaries@reddit
But cleaner. Former club manager. Would use mens over ladies any day 😂😂
SelectTrash@reddit
Same here used to be the glass collector and all around dogs body as I wasn't 18 yet. I'd do anything to get out of cleaning the women's toilets 🤣
KezzyKesKes@reddit
Me and my friend did this at the Army vs Navy rugby match a few years ago. We’d both had had too much to drink and were busting, so we ducked into the men’s instead. Both of us were laughing like schoolgirls while trying to hover over the urinal.
Seeacon@reddit
My school had a disused, emptied and condemned outdoor swimming pool. One school break during 6th form, a mate and I got drunk in the nearby park (because British teenagers) and decided to break into it.
It was fun but not crazy exciting. We just kinda ran around in the pool and possibly kicked a football about in it (it was nearly 20 years ago now so i dont fully remember.) I still have a scar on my shoulder from getting snagged and cut by the edge of the security fence on the way in,as a memento.
Cold_Table8497@reddit
In the '8 items or less' checkout with 11 items in my basket.
Efficient_Steak_7568@reddit (OP)
That’s what they get for bad grammar
OreoSpamBurger@reddit
Found Stannis Baratheon's account.
didndonoffin@reddit
‘FEWER’
Interstellore@reddit
Some people just want to see the world burn
geth1962@reddit
My friend and I went to a gym. It turns out the gym was a front for a brothel. We definitely shouldn't have gone to the showers
Bacon4Lyf@reddit
Semi-Abandoned RAF airfield to see wrecks they used for fire training, my mates got caught got told to leave, but I and another mate were hiding inside a sea king and didn’t get seen. Was pretty cool the feeling of sneaking around
There’s no fences or anything and everyone does it, but still felt cool
madformattsmith@reddit
yeah. i was at 2000 trees this year (for the 3rd time in a row) and was mistakenly given the contractor wristband instead of the normal one plus a yellow disposable wristband for the bar staff volunteers.
I was allowed to sneak into the artist village and even the press area. couldn't use staff catering though as you needed tokens for that and I wasn't given any. I felt like an absolute criminal for even stepping foot into the artist villy.
macaronipeas@reddit
On a walk on holiday in Norway. Thought it was a cafe so went through the gate. Turns out it was a nursery…
BrokenScorpio@reddit
Radio 1’s Big Weekend Preston 2007
A childhood mate rings me up out of the blue asking if I want to go, I assumed he had somehow got some tickets.. load of us jump in my car last minute and head up there.. We park up and walk over to the site.
“So where are the tickets mate” “Oh we’ve not got tickets, let me make a call”
So he finishes his call and we walk over to what looks like the door to Jabba’s Palace. We’re hanging about near this gate, next minute this slot on the gate opens and we hear a voice through the gate, “can you move away lads”
We’re all a little bit like what’s going on..
The gate opens, this man walks through, shakes my mates hand and passes us all front of house wristbands, turns out his uncle is on security and just let us in the back door.
Absolute brilliant day, Dizzee Rascal was nuts, The Enemy, Maximo Park, Klaxons, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, Bloc Party all amazing. Absolute peak 2000s. Not bad for a random Sunday!
trysca@reddit
went off the tourist trail in the gardens at Wells Palace and into the 'special area' reserved for the Bishop- it was like something out of Legend of Zelda with a clear blue spring bubbling out of the ground - absolutely magical
Soft_Rip4605@reddit
Oh yeah I ran into someone's back garden to escape a stabbing. The homeowners were complete assholes about it. When the police came they refused to let me leave through the front and the police had to force them.
amandacheekychops@reddit
When I was at school, I used to get to school early and run errands. (I was a total Miss Goody Two-Shoes.) Sometimes I would be in the building before anyone else, and occasionally I would use the staff toilet instead of the pupils' and from time to time I would sneak into the staff room and see what they had on the noticeboard.
SelectTrash@reddit
Not so goody two shoes sneaking about like that 😉
fluffykittenheart@reddit
Anything juicy on the notice board?
Soft_Rip4605@reddit
I recently blagged my way into UCL to use the toilet. I remember you used to be able to just walk in, now it's gated off with security hassling people. I noticed that a lot of places have started doing this for some reason.
darybrain@reddit
I have done short contracts at nuclear plants and military bases. Each of these roles and locations require national security clearances so they tend to only hire folks who already have clearance. I am not cleared and depending upon the level of clearance it can take many months to get cleared. In many cases the time it would take to get cleared is longer than the contract itself. For whatever reason they hire me probably because they couldn't find anyone else and out of a mix of laziness and just needing the work done they don't want to follow the proper process so there have been many times when I've been met at the front gate every day to be walked in and also need to be escorted around the building so someone can let me through the doors. On some occasions, because that other person has their own work to do, someone will just give me their pass and I wander around myself. This has also happened with security teams. I could go anywhere.
SarkyMs@reddit
I was in a amusement park looking for a clean table to eat at. I wandered round and saw some so made a bee line. It was the staff area, and It provided cleaning supplies so we cleaned our table before leaving.
Shitelark@reddit
If you have a synth riff to go with that I am sure you will have a banger on your hands.
MrSpud45@reddit
Snuck with my father and one of his friends onto the track and pitlane on grand prix weekend at Silverstone in the mid/late 90's. Walked straight through a gate telling security we had already been in. Security was a fair bit more lax in the evenings. Got to see Mclaren working on their cars, Stewart racing reving the heck out of one of their engines, Jackie Stewart showing some Golfer around, a few drivers signing autographs.
BromleyReject@reddit
Being with the home supporters when I was an away fan. Usually when I couldn't get a ticket in the normal way.
stebotch@reddit
Yep. I did that a few years back (Chorley v Stockport NLN) I plan to do it again Vs Blackpool in August. 🔵⚪️🎩
RevenantSith@reddit
DAVE CHALLINORS BLUE AND WHITE ARMY!
Wedonthavetobedicks@reddit
Yep, been in the wrong end at the North London derby. We were totally shit that day too, so generally just a horrid experience.
Efficient_Steak_7568@reddit (OP)
I was sat with my dad with the Watford fans at Vicarage Road when Arsenal won 3-2 twenty years ago
Too young to understand the celebration etiquette
ThrobbingGristle@reddit
Have done that many-a-time. Best one was a couple of years ago when I ended getting heavily featured on a Disney+ documentary series in the final episode of Season One…
sportattack@reddit
Massive abandoned ammunitions factory from the war with many underground areas and tunnels. Would sneak on as a teen and hide from security when they did their rounds. Didn’t go that deep but some older kids did and found a grenade, then blabbed about it in school and a teacher overheard, which got the police involved.
Comfortable_Cress194@reddit
Went under the road in canal in my city.
belchhog@reddit
At 17 I woke up backstage of Download one morning with no clue how I got there, wandered around for a bit before some security asked to see my wristband and how I got in there. Couldn't answer them and had lost my phone, they were nice enough to sort me a lift back to the campsite in a buggy though!
YchYFi@reddit
One wild night lol
doloresfandango@reddit
I was a teacher during lock down but still taught all the way through. The school was quiet with only essential worker kids in. This is so wrong but I took the heads master key and went poking about in every empty class and cupboard. Caretakers cupboard, stationery cupboard and that was fun cos I took glue sticks, highlighters etc for my class. I took toilet rolls cos the cleaners were tight with them. I mooched everywhere and it brightened my day then I put the key back. I didn’t touch anyone’s desk cos that would have been naughty. :)
VariousJackfruit9886@reddit
We went to NY about 6 months after 9/11. We had a rental car and figured we'd just drive around the city late at night when it was quiet and to see all the buildings lit up. I was driving but busy looking up so was just idly tail-gating a truck in front of me. Next thing I know the tarmac has turned to dirt... Turns out I'd tail gated right into ground zero. We were promptly stopped by an officer with a gun, but he took pity on me when I spoke with a Scottish accent and just helped us get back out the building site.
Reasonable-Level-849@reddit
Yes : I've always been told throughout my entire life (by others), that I am a typical lifelong 'Alpha Dominant' male, although that didn't sit easy with me as kid or teenager, especially Church Elders telling me continually.
My true real life story for this thread starts at 1969 when I was at the first stage of my Junior school years.
56 seater Coach outside full of 3rd year students, when I said to Mrs Gatrell "Damn I've left my swimming trunks", to which she snarled "Well GO & GET THEM THEN YOU STUPID BOY" simply because I was holding the coach up !!
Breathlessly, I ran like Ussain Bolt thru the Pillars of the school gates, down the long path, thru the whole school, then dashed up the stairs, totally out of breath to our classroom (locked, she gave me the keys) to retrieve them.
Man, I just SO knackered & utterly shattered & simply out of breath, totally - So I thought, "You know what" followed by "F&&K IT they can all wait, I don't wanna die of heart attack, just over a stupid pair of swimming trunks.... I mean I absolutely loather, despised & HATED swimming back then as a kid, being forced against my will, repeatedly.
I was then that THE most bizarre thing happened = I got a massive, massive "Hard On" & I just didn;t know why !!
It was simply because I was looking out the huge 16 glass windows to the 56 seater coach outside & thinking..... "Do You know what, I'm in control now, here, I'm in control & all you other Pupils & Adult Mugs down there CAN WAIT for me, until I'm good, hard & ready to WALK so calmly back downstairs, pressing my "Hard On" into a radiator.
Looking back with hindsight, it just made me laugh (I'm NOT like that now, honest !!!!!)
Holding up 56 People, inadvertently & such power & 'control' for a skinny 7 year old lad for some 12 mins or so.
Bizarre, but it just cracks me up, every time thinking about it - Wish I could go "Back in Time" to the Late 1960's
Such a better time to live thru, especially for an Anglo-Saxon lad like me & no risk of Sharia Law....
toady89@reddit
I got locked in a music room and missed afternoon tutor group and half of science. We were allowed in the practice rooms at lunchtime, there were two down a sub corridor and the teacher decided to lock the door to the sub corridor without checking if the rooms were empty. I’m just now realising this is the second instance of me being locked in somewhere where if there was a fire I’d be at risk. The other time it was a toilet on a construction site with a metal door which the cleaner locked from the outside, a couple of months later I was sent a photo of it burned out where a guy had been smoking in the men’s side.
Braylien@reddit
Snuck into Legoland once, used to climb the fences to get into Glastonbury when that was still a thing. And snuck into a concert at Wembley Arena once. It’s always fun getting into places for free. Glasto was the best though, in the later years they would have security in buggies that would catch you and take you back outside and then you would try again haha. Started the festival off the right way.
AgitatedPear5922@reddit
Walked through a crime scene once I wasn't on earth so I didn't notice at first
sloppysmusic@reddit
I worked in a camera shop Birmingham 1982 and heard that Princess Ann was leaving via New Street Station at 2pm (you would NEVER get that info these days!)
I grabbed a Nikon F3/MD4 and Canon F1 plus Metz flash setup/2 rolls Tri-X and ran round to the station. Security was locked up round the front doors I just screamed PRESS PRESS!, which platform?
Some nice copper jogged with me to the platform and muscled me up to HRH just as she was boarding 10 yards away. I hastily burned through all 36 shots. Got back home to my darkroom and turned out I'd forgotten to focus...only ONE was recognisable as Ann but it was a good shot of her stepping onto the train.
Just TRY running at security these days around Royals and see where that gets you...
lungbong@reddit
I used to live near Shepperton Studios and a friend of mine regularly sold the prop people various bits and pieces. Late 90s they were filming the Lost in Space film there and my friend asked if I could deliver a load of stuff they'd ordered as I was going passed on the way home.
The security guard directed me to park somewhere and take the props to the props people. Ended up getting lost and almost ended up on a live set, sadly didn't see any of the stars but did get escorted to the right place by one of the production staff.
penguinsfrommars@reddit
Took a staircase in a hospital without noticing the staff only sign. Emerged into the guts of A&E... 😬
Mari-Loki@reddit
My husband and I were mistaken for press at a hotel and spent about 30 minutes at a junket for a movie. It was wild!
_tuesdayschild_@reddit
I was driving in the Granada studios in Manchester as I was delivering some kit. I got a bit lost so I pulled up outside a pub to ask directions. Thought it looked quiet and a bit familiar. Then realised that the Rovers Return probably wasn't what I thought it was.
I took a photo just to prove I'd been there.
YerDaSellsAVON360@reddit
When i was in primary school, my best mate and a laddie we knew went into the classroom while everyone was in ICT, never locked the door or anything so we let ourselves in, there was a gala day float that everyone was working on, took AGES, long story short we got a bunch of paint and for whatever reason we put it all in the toilet, then went back into the classroom and smashed up the float, then i threw a tantrum and saved all 3 of us from exclusion, embarrassed myself but you’ve got to take one for the team 🤣🤣
PKblaze@reddit
In secondary school I used to go into the music room at lunch with some friends. Nobody ever went in there so I skipped many math lessons. Still passed with a B without studying so it all worked out.
Hopeykinss@reddit
An ex once dragged me into a closed part of a hotel/banquet hall/restaurant back home. I believe the one side of the property was still used as a hotel, but the banquet hall area, if even used anymore, was only open when in use.
We were walking by and my ex starts telling me about the place and drags me over to look around. He’s looking in the door and pointing things out, and then pulls on the door, and it opens. He pulled me inside and started looking around. My scary cat self was like, “I don’t think we’re supposed to go in here.” He just says, “If you weren’t supposed to go in the door would be locked,” or something along those lines.
We headed down the stairs where we found a small kitchen area (there was a drink dispensing machine and I think a couple beer taps around). I, of course, am freaking out at this point. We clearly shouldn’t be there and especially not the area we were in, that was clearly meant for staff or people paying to use the space.
He starts playing with the drink machine, I think he even drank from it. Disgusting, I know. At this point, I was beyond done, I was leaving whether he came with me or not. I ran up out of there and never looked back. I feel like I’m lucky we didn’t end up on the news, “Video/Photos of Alleged Burglars of Banquet Hall.” One of the scarier ones in my life.
There were others but I don’t think I’d want to post those online. LOL
Jonseroo@reddit
Well!
One. I sneaked into a rented house I'd moved out of, because I still had a key, and the new tenants hadn't sent on a birthday card with money in. Found the opened card in the kitchen bin. So when I came back later and they were home and denied ever seeing a card I told them to check their bin, and it was awkward for them. they said I was cheeky.
Two. My neighbours were away for the Summer but left an upstairs window banging. One night there was a storm, and I'd had enough of it, so I climbed out of my house and along the wall to their window to fix it. Turns out they'd got home, and were rather startled to see me at 1 AM hanging from their window. We had a chat about whose responsibility it was to fix the window, after they'd got the screaming out of their system. They thought the landlord should have done it.
Three. My girlfriend rented a room and I stayed with her without the landlord knowing, and had to hide in a cupboard when his wife came round to clean. I remember being awkwardly splayed at angle whilst she vaccuumed, hoping she wouldn't open the cupboard door, but she didn't. Phew!
Four. I was buying a house, and secretly had a copy made of the key before the sale went through, so I could sneak in for a bit of peace and quiet. One day the owner cam in and I had to hide in the loft but they found me. It was a bit embarrassing.
Five. There was an abandonned old folks home down my street. I thought it would be a bit Scooby Doo to break in. I climbed up to a bathroom window, forced it open, and got inside, only to find that the room had no door. Just four walls. They'd sealed it off for some reason. So I had to get in another way to liberate some curtains and a Hammond organ before they knocked the place down.
Six. My drunk friend wanted to climb Nottingham castle in the middle of the night. The ivy of the cliffs was easy, but the walls themselves defeated us. On the way down his cowboy boots lost their footing, and he fell on me, we landed on top of a house built into the cliffs. He thought we could just jump off, not realizing it was a two storey house. I persuaded him to go via ivy again, and go first this time.
This isn't even the full list, but you get the idea.
kestrelita@reddit
I went on a university trip to Israel about 15 years ago. Tensions with Lebanon bubbled over while I was there, and a lot of the sites we were meant to visit were closed. Our tour guide was a bit of a character, and we were encouraged to break into one of the sites by climbing over the fence. We were escorted out by armed soldiers...
Mrteamtacticala@reddit
My primary school had lots of open land, and in the middle was a place called "the dell" that was fenced off and covered in nettles, rocks, holes and overgrown woodland ish stuff. And beyond that at the bottom of the grounds was another fence, we'd hop the fence, go down to the river, up the other side and hop another fence into an apple orchard. We'd be like half a mile into this orchard messing around throwing apples at each other. the teachers hated it and you'd be fucked if they found you hopping the fence. We would set up little bases around the river and have stashes of doc leaves and stuff. Not a single person ever snitched on anyone too! Of course I see now how dodgey it was for 8-11 year olds to be hopping fences and rivers at a time when the teachers are responsible for us, and would have probably made them shit themselves if they ever actually caught us there lol
Mrteamtacticala@reddit
One time, in the orchard, a friend of ours was separated, and the farmer came along on his tractor, we didn't know where around friend was, until the tractor drove past us (we where well hidden in the bushes down nearer the river) and our friend just dropped off the bottom back of the tractor! Somehow he hopped on the back and was hanging off the underside of it
Oh-Its-Him-@reddit
Once walked into the wrong lecture at university. Didn’t realise until I glanced around and didn’t recognise anyone. Ended up sticking it out and enjoying the presentation to be honest.
charley_warlzz@reddit
Following on the school one, I once needed the bathroom in year 1 and the teacher gave me the ‘in a minute’ response. I asked again five minutes later, and then ten minutes after that, and got the same response. At that point it was an Issue, so I managed to get up and very sneakily just slide out the classroom and go to the loo.
When I came back (after sneaking back in) my teacher had given out worksheets, and i didnt have one (as no one had noticed I wasnt in my seat). Instead of putting my hand up and admitting to my crime, i decided to just wait for an opportunity to sneak back out and then spent the rest of lesson until lunch wandering the corridor and hiding in the bathroom. It felt very rebellious and thrilling at the time, and it’s the only time I’ve ever skipped class lol.
And they still didnt notice, lol.
SwordTaster@reddit
I went into the boys' toilets when I was about 9 because the netball rolled in there
1205lp@reddit
Once drove to Alton towers, a theme park in the UK. It’s in the middle of nowhere and it’s sort of one road in one road out and the traffic was about an hour to drive one mile. Had a look on google maps and I could see a little road that took us right to the gate more or less so I thought f it and drove down it, ended up driving through a farm house, farmer screaming at us, sheep in the middle of the road beeping them out the way.. worked though and we skipped tho whole queue!
thombthumb84@reddit
Went backstage at a festival To the VIP party.
We were expecting rock and roll excess, what we got was professional networking over beers and small Talk.
FeekyDoo@reddit
Grace Jones' golden mobile toilet block .. at a festival, we risked our lives by using it 😅
Alone-Sky1539@reddit
I used to be a Postie an at saturday nights often I had the overnight security job of doing feck all. anyways the Head Postmaster had a posh toilet in his office an we all pooped in it on saturdays. the convention was - NO flushing so this hoity toity nobber had full enjoyment of our contributions
Kubrick_Fan@reddit
I walked down the approach road of Dungeness B when I was applying for a job as an outage cleaner about 6 years ago.
I was told on the induction day by the head of security that I was lucky the armed Nuclear Constabulary units and the On site Military units usually deployed there were on exercises.
LegoVRS@reddit
A lad I know has a fantastic story about breaking into a university ball and ending up in the gents with Gary Glitter in full stage outfit. Lol.
SlimeyGremlinz@reddit
Pulled up to the Yas Marnia for the 2015 F1 GP, Taxi took us the wrong way and we ended up in between a Sky presentation and I got to meet David Coulthard.
Speedbird223@reddit
Runway of a US military base in a car.
When I was growing up we had a Scout meeting at a local USAF base. The place was in the process of being decommissioned so they still had security personnel just not from the US directly. We had to drive from the main gate around some of the taxiways to the building hosting the event which was around 1.5 miles. At the end of the event we were supposed to go back the same way which took us across the end of the runway (one of the longest in Europe) at one point. The cars were fairly well spread out and so my father chose to take a hard turn at the end of the runway and just gun it. Think we got up to about 140 before he slowed up and we went back to the place we turned off. It was quite fun but since it was dark and runways are so expansive it wasn’t the same as driving that speed on the motorway…
LowStrawberry6494@reddit
Hopped the fairly sizable fence at Spreepark in Berlin which was an abandoned theme park. I stayed out of the open areas to avoid being really obvious due to security, but got a good look in the boathouse for the log flume, and at a few bits of roller coaster. Annoyingly my phone broke the day before, so I had to borrow a mates one and only got a few pictures!
Boseph_1444@reddit
Snuck into a country club without paying. Got caught but blagged my way out of it and they let me stay. Good times.
orbtastic1@reddit
I was working in Egypt and had a day off. The Taxi driver decided to take me to the Aswan dam (the regular one is quite boring, it's just a narrow bridge high up) but I didn't want to go, I wanted to go in the other direction. Anyway he took me to the BIG ONE built by the Soviets and plonked me at the end near all the electricity generators and missile emplacements. I thought hm this doesn't look right but let's take a look whilst I'm here (didn't get camera out) and before I'd finished looking over the edge and thinking even louder to myself ok I shouldn't be here, at least four soldiers/police came running over, two of them sticking their AK barrels in my ribs painfully and making it clear in no uncertain terms that I needed to get back in the car and leave.
They also pointed their guns at the Taxi driver's head and told him very plainly, drive or we will shoot you. The colour drained out of him and he drove off sharpish. Then he apologised to me and said I'm going home, I won't be driving you anywhere today now.
Dashie_2010@reddit
Exploring on my bike when I was about 16, came out some woods and accidentally found myself the wrong side of some security gates for a base, got escorted out to the main road.
bunnyswan@reddit
I once accidentally ended up on a train that wasn't meant to have any passengers on it, the conductor found me once the train had already set off. he asked me what I was doing there and I said going to xyz station, I don't really understand how it happened because I literally just walked onto the platform and walked onto the train but he made me feel really bad about it, luckily for me the train was a fast train going to the station I was going to I didn't stop anywhere which was so fast it was amazing and after the conductor told on me to the driver he came back and we sneakily planned for me to get off the train without anyone noticing so I think mostly it was about me not getting him in trouble.
AdThat328@reddit
An asylum while it was being demolished...did a whole photoshoot...
Dangerous_Fox3993@reddit
Me and a bunch of other friends broke into a abandoned hotel in our teens and even though I’m 40 now I still remember the feeling how fun it was walking around and jumping on the beds and playing hide and seek in this absolute huge hotel! We went up to the top floor and got scared and ran out because we heard a noise but that was definitely the best summer of my teenage years.
lavenderacid@reddit
I lived alone in a school for a few months over the summer. Boarding school, so all the kids were gone, and no other staff lived in the building. Super eerie walking round at night, even though I lived there, it still felt forbidden.
Interstellore@reddit
I went to LA and the Hollywood sign wasn’t accessible.
I went to the top floor of a building off in the distance from it and crossed security tape etc. to be there and took a selfie of myself with the Hollywood sign behind me.
MikeSizemore@reddit
Flew into the Cannes film festival at the last minute and of course everywhere was booked to the hilt. Blagged our way past security at the hotel that Spielberg was staying in as we were (maybe) due to interview him the next morning. We told the reception we had to ‘get the room ready’ for the next day and then just crashed in it. The room was booked as part of the press junket and paid for by the studio so we ate and drank the minibar dry. Slightly naughty but it was either that or kip on the beach.
mirjam1234567@reddit
In High School, our class went from Holland to England on a ferry. Wandering around the ship, I opened the wrong door and ended up in the personnel-only section. Got quite lost before a sailor helped me to the right section again.
Steamboat_Willey@reddit
I once autismed my way into an autism awareness ourse. So the story starts a couple of weeks prior, at a careers fair. I signed up for a recruitment day for social security Scotland (which was just being set up so they were recruiting office staff en masse), so I turned up at this office building at what I thought was the right time, and after checking in at reception, I was shown into this room. And instead of being a recruitment day, it turned out to be not a recruitment day at all, but an autism awareness training course. Now the irony here is that I have autism myself, and by the time I realised I was at the wrong event, it was too awkward to back out, so I ended up sitting through the whole thing. After double-checking, it turns out I was at the right venue at the right time, but on the wrong date. D'oh! I never did get to the actual recruitment day, and ended up in a job more suited to my experience.
Efficient_Steak_7568@reddit (OP)
Are you now more self-aware?
Steamboat_Willey@reddit
Yes lol.
ciaraaaaaaaaaaaaa@reddit
I used to go to 'illegal raves'back in the day, mainly in London so have been in a fair few places I 'shouldn't' have been.
The old Royal Mail sorting office on New Oxford Street for a Halloween party in 2010 was a great one. It was on the news. And a multi story warehouse full of furniture and stuff in Acton - think it was a TV/film prop storage place. That was great fun! Old police stations and banks being other (semi) memorable places.
Got locked in a shopping centre after closing once, thankfully found our way out after a little bit.
Sneaked into lots of backstage/crew areas at gigs and festivals etc.
Kijamon@reddit
On a similar thread as yours when I worked in Matalan I used to slack off something rotten. My favourite was them calling me over the tannoy and the manager knew I was probably chatting to the person on fitting room duty. When I hear him coming I hid in one of the cubicles. Not like he was going to be able to open them was it?
Then I beat him back to the tills and was logged on and serving before he got back. The perfect crime.
Efficient_Steak_7568@reddit (OP)
The perfect crime…
No-Locksmith6662@reddit
On holiday in Belgium we took a wrong turn in Ghent looking for a car park and ended up in the trams only zone. Let me tell you, having multiple big trams approaching you from different directions all ringing their bells to tell you to get out their way is not a relaxing experience.
twentyorange@reddit
The NSA.
I was travelling though Maryland on a holiday and saw signs for Fort Meade. I knew there was a cryptology museum near the NSA so made a detour.
I followed the signs and came to a large building. The security seemed pretty tight as I got heavily searched.
Part war during the pat down while being overlooked by armed guards I quipped "This is a bit high security for a museum" and much hilarity ensued when I was informed this was actually the main entrance of the NSA and the museum was a few 100 meters down the road.
It was pre 9/11 so we all had a good laugh.
salomesrevenge@reddit
my mate took a wrong turn lost in manchester city centre just after passing his test and drove along a tram lane for a while along a pedestrianised road, i still remember the confused faces of the people on the platform looking down at us as we passed
WarmForbiddenDonut@reddit
We have a large forest area near where I live, so I decided to go for a walk there one day with a friend and we both had our toddlers in pushchairs. As for usual arrogance from growing up in the area, we decided that we didn’t need to purchase a map of the walking trails in the forest and we could easily follow the trail markers on the posts, which would only take us about 1.5 to 2 hours in total.
Let’s just say that we diverted from the trail somewhat! So we kept going until we found somewhere that would point us to a location marker… that’s when we realised that we were right in the middle of the military academy firing rage, which was used pretty often for live rounds practice. We bid a pretty hasty retreat in the direction that we came from and eventually came across a forest ranger who gave us a lift back in his truck.
Glittering_Habit_161@reddit
I walked out of Geography class once in Year 8 ten minutes before I was supposed to because of my 5 minute pass and I never got told off for it.
brokenbear76@reddit
I went to primary school from 1980 - 87 and security of us kids just wasn't a thing back then.
During morning registration you'd answer the teacher calling your surname with either dinners, packed lunch or home - you were allowed to walk home for lunch on your own once you were a junior (year 3 in new money)
I don't know why, one day I just decided to say "home" despite usually having school dinners and felt a massive rush as I left school grounds, walked myself to the local park and played for a bit before I returned to school for the afternoon.
Emboldened by this, the next day I said the same at morning registration, but immediately left school and had a good wander around the local area, walking down to where the school did their swimming lessons (just about a mile away) and back to the park for a play and went back to school for lunch time, and back to aftern registration like nothing had happened.
Teacher asked where I was in the morning and casually lied saying I needed to go to the doctors.
Parents never found out, or if they did I didn't get in trouble for it, and I never did it again. I don't really know why I did it to be honest, but 8 year old me obviously had a reason...
MargotChanning@reddit
Not me, but someone at my sisters uni who was doing a journalism course speculatively went down to 25 Cromwell Street to have a nosey. They flashed their student ID at a copper who was guarding the door only for them to take it as a journos ID and let them in. They had a good wander around the house but the cellar was all blocked off. No one twigged who they were and they left before they pushed their luck.
Majestic-Pen-8800@reddit
Back in the early 90s there was a show T Haydock Racecourse involving celebrities of the day such as John Leslie and a few others. It was a whopping £25 to get in, so we bribed a security guard to let us through the back.
To get in we were directed to climb underneath a marquee, which we did only to emerge in front of a a bar area in the middle of a press photo call, where Noel Edmonds was pulling a pint, ruining the photoshoot. I was right next to Mr Edmonds and all I could think to say was “go on Noel! - pour us a pint!” and in reply he whispered to me under his breath and through gritted teeth “piss off you fucking bastard”.
So I did.
b-e-r-n@reddit
So I was hiding in my step-sisters closet when....
Consistent-Fuel7438@reddit
Every time I go to ASDA I feel I'm in the wrong place lol
Urgulon7@reddit
This will completely single my account out so I'll delete this account in a week or so, but:
I once used one of the Prince regent's private toilets in the Royal Pavilion in Brighton.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=royal%20pavilion%20Brighton%20
I was there for a book signing for Sir Ranulph Fiennes about 10 years ago. It was fairly late in the evening and I saw a sign for the toilets so went through a big, grand wooden door. The next door on my left I opened and saw the most historic (read old, wooden bench with carved hole for a seat) looking single toilet Ive ever been in. Weird I thought, but hey ho, nobody about, so I went in, had a wee, flushed and came back out. There were three museum staff members standing outside bemused that I'd come out of this bathroom.
I said the sign pointed this way and they said it meant that it was further down the hallway. They were surprised that the flush even still worked.
This was a completely off limits to the public area of the palace and I think the original door I went through was supposed to be locked.
See me looking slightly embarrassed, but also quite proud I've just used a toilet that probably hasn't been used in a hundred years and hasn't been used since. 😂
General_Ignoranse@reddit
I did a similar thing to you, in year 7 we weren’t allowed inside at lunchtime. Even when it was raining!
My tutor’s classroom was inside a maths block, separate from the main school. Me and a friend a few times hid in the store cupboard in the classroom, so when the teachers locked up the block for lunch, we could come out of the cupboard and open it up again. We’d have been in so much trouble if we got caught, but they never worked out how we were doing it!
Delicious-Cut-7911@reddit
My 10 yr old friend and her 7 yr old sister took me to her uncle's farm to see the piglets. He did not know were were there. The 7yr old climbed over the wall into the sty to cuddle the piglets. The sow was having none of it and started to bite and attack her. The farmer heard the screaming and got the girl out and told us off for being on the farm unannounced.
Eclectic-Eccentric88@reddit
Not super relevant but I'm autistic and sometimes find things overwhelming, I was at the cinema with a date and tried to find the bathroom, he did point in the direction of the right exit but I got so embarrassed because people could see me getting up from the seat and so self conscious that I went for the other door...
Turned out to be a handleless fire exit door, so I was in the cinema's fire exit stairwell for a bit but I managed to catch the door and pry it open just before it shut lol
Efficient_Steak_7568@reddit (OP)
Don’t worry I’ve seen that happen before, easy to do especially in the dark
Eclectic-Eccentric88@reddit
Thank you! I don't feel so alone in my tomfoolery now
Miss_Type@reddit
I sneak down to the boiler room at work (I work in a school) and have been through the weird tunnels under the main hall. It's very creepy, and there's signs to say no unauthorised access, but I'm nosy and always think it's better to seek forgiveness than ask permission. I help myself to anything I find that's useful - not to take home, to use in school, so it's sort of cheeky but not really naughty.
Efficient_Steak_7568@reddit (OP)
Naughty girl
DeviousWhippet@reddit
Look under your bed...
Efficient_Steak_7568@reddit (OP)
No that’s where I keep you
greenhail7@reddit
Aged 13/14, we used to sneak onto the municipal golf course in the town I lived in at the time with a 7 iron and a few golf balls and play a few holes, gratis.
When I lived abroad, aged 11, we used to sneak onto the nearby railway line and put coins on the line, to get them flattened by the wheels of a passing train. Was monumentally stupid. Also remember seeing the stones that are used as ballast being crushed to fine powder by the weight of a passing train. Was mid-80's.
IntelligentDeal9721@reddit
Wrong side of the security in an airport. In my defence they got us off the plane pointed us at a gate and left. The gate was locked so we went for a wander air side to try and find people. In the end someone managed to force a gate part way and set the alarms off so that someone came.
Security in the UK is indeed frequently a joke.
HELJ4@reddit
I was maybe in year 3. We were preparing for a play at Brownies and needed costumes. One of the older girls mentioned that we could get some from school because they had a room filled with costumes and props for school plays. The leader said ok, great, go and ask a teacher. So at lunch time a group of us went in to raid the prop room. When a teacher came by we all hid whilst the older girl made up some excuse as to why she was inside during lunch. I was so scared! I thought we'd been given permission to take stuff
BbyJohnny@reddit
Yeah a supermarket after closing and all the employees went home lol
StitchConverse@reddit
A school boyfriend discovered one of the local garages was unused and accessible. He made me stand on the lookout when he went to explore further. Then a couple of days later invited me inside to "visit". Inside was a grotty piss soaked mattress he'd found and dragged in, boxes of someone's belongings and a packet of condoms he'd stolen from his dad. He was so proud as he held the broken door open so I could squeeze in and thoroughly intended it would be our love nest. Needless to say it was the most unromantic place imaginable even as a teenager. I never visited again!
Apprehensive_Bill339@reddit
Hiding ontop of a primary school roof from the dibble, couldn't get caught as they'd poor away all our beer
To be fair we had carried 4 plastic garden chairs up there and were just say drinking an laughing so prob could've seen us for miles before the dibble got called and we all just lay flat for 10 min
champion1995@reddit
Ocne went in a friend's house that had been sold and was empty. It was creepy as heck in the middle of the woods, and it was massive and fancy. I think the friend was with us, and had left a window ajar so we could get it. We used the loo, got scared and left.
pr8787@reddit
In the summer of 1990, my mate and I (both 11) found we could lift open the window of a school building near where he lived and climb in. We never took anything, just literally did it for the thrill.
On about the 3rd occasion, we lifted the window and climbed in but an alarm immediately went off. We both shat ourselves, scrambled out as quick as we could, and ran back to his house just in time to watch the England v West Germany World Cup game (which means this happened around 19:45 on the 4th July!).
This is one of the funny quirks about football, I can tell you exactly where I was and what I was doing on so many specific days throughout my life just by googling when certain fixtures happened
Lonewolfhf@reddit
Was down in Portsmouth doing the tourist tour of the naval dockyards, I was still at school and it may have been just after the Falklands because there were a lot of ships in. My brother and I fancied going to see Nelson’s flagship “Victory” so we joined a long queue of fellow tourists, it was a hot day and queues, whilst a British institution are terribly boring for a young lad. My brother saw that a queue of kids our age was going up a separate gangway and just seemed to be getting straight in so we joined it. Had a lovely private tour of the boat and met some fellow kid, no idea where from. Almost got rumbled when the tour ended in the gift shop (of course) and I tried to buy a penknife, the guide said he would have to ask the teacher if it was ok. So we legged it.
premium_bawbag@reddit
Hahaha, nice try GCHQ
Dull-Perspective-90@reddit
When I was in primary school, about 9 years old, after school one of my friends showed me an "abandoned" warehouse, camper van and old car in a field about a mile away from the school. Eventually word spread and 5 of us would go and explore the field it was in. We found a porno mag in the camper van (I still remember the topless blonde standing in front of the union Jack) and in the big shed/warehouse was about 20 vans gathering dust. We started to get bored and found a brick and vandalized the car and shed a bit and found a fire extinguisher and sprayed that a bit but then to our surprise from the fence a man shouted "I'll skin you alive" or something like that and we ran. I ran very fast and jumped a fence at the other end of a field, followed a stream to a hill and went up the hill to go home but unfortunately for us the man had reached the top of the hill in his car first and cut us off. Instead of getting the police involved they settled it with our parents :). I'm not sure how my friend had discovered that the site was unoccupied or gathered the courage to sneak in because it was quite exposed.
chrisjjones05@reddit
There was a trapdoor in the gymnasium leaving to a floorspace beneath it. Me and my friend hid there during a PE lesson while everyone else was running round above us. Me and the same friend went to the school and climbed up on the flat roof and walked around. Did it once on a weekend and at a disco. Did lots of stuff like that as a kid. It's thrill seeing really.
justADDbricks@reddit
I’ve technically ‘illegally’ trespassed on an old grain silo/gun tower in the Thames Estuary
No-Court-9980@reddit
I’m secondary school, I snuck out of my school and into another one.. I did all the afternoon lessons and went home with everyone else at the end of the day 😂
Cold-Vermicelli-8997@reddit
Back in the mid 90s I was visiting Warwick university on an open day.. I was looking for a loo and walked over an internal bridge. At the end of the bridge there was a door held open with a fire extinguisher, should have been locked. I popped through and looked around. That part of the building was used by Jaguar Land Rover for development. There were clay models, drawings, renders of all sorts of cars. Sadly this was pre smartphone so I didn't get any pics. One was the land rover Freelander before release and before any photos had been seen.
ZimbabweSaltCo@reddit
On a family holiday in Turkey many years ago we were driving back from Kaş and my dad insisted we go up into the mountains as opposed to the regular coastal road. As you can imagine in rural Turkey the roads were a nightmare, all unpaved and some just tracks in the dirt. Eventually came to a fork in the road with one very dusty dirt road and one that was all paved, very well maintained tarmac. No signs on either so my dad assumed the paved one was the main path so go that way. The road starts going higher and higher up the mountain and these big concrete bollards start appearing along it, eventually it takes us to some sort of military base right at the top with signs showing men with guns on them. Dad tries to reverse but stalls the car in a panic and two actual men with guns (and a dog) come out and ask what we’re doing here. Once they realise we were just some hapless English tourists they become a lot friendlier and give us directions back to town. Nice chaps in the end.
Honest-Lunch870@reddit
When I was c.6 years old, I wandered onto the bridge of the Rosslare-Fishguard ferry and started telling the captain about Phantasy Star or whatever shite I was playing at the time. One of the officers escorted me back down and gave me a sailor's hat. These days, you'd probably be shot as soon as you opened the door.
chiefgareth@reddit
Once went into a hotel that was closed. Didn’t plan it, the door was just open. Walked around a bit. All the rooms were open too. I didn’t stay long once I realised there’s probably cameras.
It was being refurbed, obviously none of the workers were in that day and someone forgot to lock the door.
hhfugrr3@reddit
I went to a gig at Wembley stadium years ago... possibly even the old Wembley. I had a ticket but the queue was really long. I spotted a fire exit that was open so just walked in there with my gf and off to my seat. Felt like a proper wrong 'un 🤣
mythos_winch@reddit
One time a bunch of armed police were all pointing their guns at a house while hiding behind their shields and I just nonchalantly walked through the front garden between them and the house.
I got told off but that seems fair tbh
dbltax@reddit
Hundreds if not over a thousand different places now. In a lot of different countries, too.
TurbulentWeb1941@reddit
You didn't happen to bump into Lord Lucan by ac? 😀
BungadinRidesAgain@reddit
Plot twist: that is Lucan's reddit account
mike20070@reddit
I accidentally joined the wrong rugby match when I played my first under 11s game. I ran on and got involved with the under 14s game, lasted about five minutes before I realised my team were on the next pitch.
Monster_Fucker_420@reddit
Wandered into an army base field place bc I was exploring. Had to climb onto a dock and through a broken fence to get inside. Was scared when this big tall dude came right at me and demanded to know why and how I was there lol
dancroofers@reddit
A few years ago I was a bicycle courier in London and was delivering a small parcel to someone that worked at Kensington Palace. I asked one of the tourist guides at the front where to take deliveries and she gave me some directions that I followed too literally without using any common sense and ended up on this bit of lawn that was off limits.
For about 30 seconds I was stupidly looking around and then a lady popped her head out of a window and asked what I was doing and told me I shouldn't be there and I've set off the alarm. So I walk back to the front to be met by 2 staff members and a security guard who tells me I've caused "quite the stir". I had to stand with them awkwardly for about 5 minutes with my big stupid courier bag and wearing my stupid bicycle helmet looking like a total idiot while they decided that I wasn't a threat.
Then I went to where I was supposed to go to deliver the parcel and when I got there the deliveries guy laughed at me.
Evil_Martin@reddit
Back in the 90’s we walked purposely past reception into The Grouch Club in Soho. Lasted quite a while until chucked out for trying to put our drinks on Nick Cave’s bar tab… was worth a try!
deltree000@reddit
I was assisting at a photoshoot at Guards Polo Club in Windsor a long time ago. The models had finished off all of the food laid on by a celeb chef and so the photographer told me to go see what I could russell up in the kitchen... of the Royal Box. Well fridges were empty of all food so our lunch that day consisted of Heinekens and a bottle of champagne.
FuckedupUnicorn@reddit
Used to live near a women’s prison in the 70s when I was a small kid. My cousin and me used to sneak into the grounds through a kid sized hole and play on the farm there.
I_ALWAYS_UPVOTE_CATS@reddit
My gf and I hid under the stairs rather than going outside when the fire alarm went off at her uni halls. She found it beyond hilarious, while I was bricking it.
Darkened100@reddit
At primary school me and a friend sneaked out and went to the corner shop, got a toy car which we played with in detention
Efficient_Steak_7568@reddit (OP)
Worth it
BreakTheSuicycle@reddit
I “camped out” on top of our school roof as a kid with my mates, bottles of lambrini and no tent in winter
It was cold
hellhound28@reddit
I'm a little embarrassed to admit this, but when I was a teenager, I broke into my friend's house on more than one occasion and waited for her in her room so we could hang out. She had the only ground floor bedroom. She was fine with this, but I cringe at the thought of how angry her parents would have been if they'd known. Worse yet, my friend's boyfriend at the time did the same thing but for plainly different reasons, and I once broke in to find him on her bed in nothing but boxers.
bioticspacewizard@reddit
My whole family got locked inside Pompeii for a couple of hours after closing when I was a young teen. It was really eerie!
We'd parked at the front, but we were near the back of the site as closing time approached. Instead of heading to the nearest exit and going around, my Dad insisted we walk through back to the front gate. It got dark really quickly and then we realized all the gates were locked while we were walking. We fully expected to have to stay the night, but managed to flag a patrolling employee about two hours later, luckily.
professorgenkii@reddit
I walked onto a film set on holiday in Los Angeles. A crew were filming some sort of police procedural on the street in Venice Beach and I didn’t realise what was going on. Got turned around quite quickly.
beccapenny@reddit
When I was doing my Duke of Edinburgh expedition, my group got a bit lost. We sat down on some grass and tried to work out where we were. An armed guard came and made us move as apparently we were outside Paddy Ashdown's house. Weird!
eggmayonnaise@reddit
When we were kids we broke into a boarded up old peoples' home. It was a grand old building with a huge ballroom and all sorts of amazing features. It was almost pitch black inside because all the windows were boarded up and we had had to climb over barbed wire and tar traps to get in. What a rush. We were terrified inside but it was so much fun.
MrPogoUK@reddit
I went to a Marilyn Manson concert in Las Vegas at a venue where the backstage pass stickers apparently have really shit glue, as after the show finished I found two on the floor. Me and my mate then ended up at the after show party with the Marilyn Manson band plus Korn and also Ozzy Osbourne in attendance, not that we got near any of them as there was a further level of security stopping anyone not personally invited through get within ten feet of that table, so we’re just kind of milling around in an expensive bar with a load of other random people.
php64@reddit
My dad was a policeman and we lived in a house connected to the towns police station. The local court house was just behind us. My friends whose dad was also a policeman and I used to climb up onto the roof and watch through the windows of the courtroom.
JennyW93@reddit
Once went to visit CERN. Thought the security guy was waving me through, so we drove straight in. Then ended up in some back car-park, looking for the visitor’s centre, when a lady asked “are you visiting?” So we said “yes”, and she told us where to park and then let us into one of the lab buildings before asking who we were there to see. Didn’t see anything but corridors, but I was surprised how far we accidentally got behind the scenes before we were able to explain we were tourists, not scientists (I mean, we were incidentally scientists, but not that kind).
Earlier that day we’d also blagged ourselves onto a private tour of the UN building.
It occurred to us later that we might have been getting away with all of this because we’d stuck mini Luxembourg flags on the front of the car a day or two earlier in our Eurotrip.
stebotch@reddit
I was desperate for work about 15 years ago. I knew a bit about a large local company so I decided to go in and blag an interview.
Diesel1donna@reddit
I once offered to stay and wash paintbrushes, I was desperate to try a spoonful of complan that my teacher drank every day I scooped a HUGE spoonful of this powder into my seven year old mouth, only for teacher to come and thank me, chat with me and generally stick around. I had a mouthful of cloggy, fluffy dusty muck that wasn't going anywhere, escaping in tiny puffs of dust. Looking back I'm sure teacher knew, but the horror of it has never left me... Plus complan is revolting
MRRichAllen1976@reddit
I once got lost walking round the old Norton College, and ended up coming down a "staff" tunnel, I was behind an actual staff member so fortunately they didn't see me.
SubstantialFly3316@reddit
Yes, I did a bit of urban exploring some years ago. I managed to do what was then the holy grail of Urbex in 2010, the derelict National Gas Turbine Establishment, Pyestock. Spent hours in there hiding from the security patrols. It was an incredible place, massive and like a real life science fiction research establishment. Sadly demolished now.
dreamer02468@reddit
That's so cool, and so sad it's gone☹️
rezonansmagnetyczny@reddit
Worked as a labourer for a fanily-friend owned construction company from about the age of 9. ( I'm from Yorkshire and it was the 90s/ 00s). We did a lot of shop fitting.
Because of my work, by the time I hit my teenage delinquent phase i knew all of the secret tunes and corridors in most of the shopping centers within a 50 mile radius which meant me and my friends pretty much spent entire summers roaming around the guts and glory of said shopping centers.
There's not actually anything interesting to a teenager, I guess it was just cool at the time because we thought we were doing something naughty and high risk.
In reality the worst that would probably happen is that we'd get shouted at by security.
tarmac-the-cat@reddit
large leisure centre near where I lived in the early 80s used to leave a fire exit open in the hot summer days. A few times me and a friend entered that way. We didn't do any sport (swimming, badminton, squash) it was just something edgy to do. I think you could pay 10p to be a spectator anyway if you wanted to go in.
AdverseTangent@reddit
The Northern Irish Parliamentary chamber. Took a wrong turn during a tour. Gave the guards a fright when I exited through a different door.
George9816@reddit
Ran through a farmers field with my brother and second cousin we got chased that resulted us thinking of a brilliant idea of climbing down a 30-40ft cliff face to get away
dreamer02468@reddit
I was high on K in KFC and saw people leaving a different way from how I came in. My high self thought they were entering a secret nightclub(!), so I followed and ended up going in the KFC kitchen... It was a quiet morning there, so I was unseen for about 20 secs then told to get tf out 😆😂
TheRyanGiggs@reddit
My sister-in-law's snatch.
Caused a bit of trouble.
Questingcloset@reddit
Hi Ryan
togtogtog@reddit
We climbed into the gardens of Blenheim Palace, borrowed a boat from the boathouse and went for a row on the lake. I felt like a person out of Brideshead Revisited! Then we put it all back and left the way we came.
Savings-Seea@reddit
I wouldn't dream of it. By the way, on a completely unrelated note, does anyone know of any mods that could unlock the camera in the shower? Asking for a friend.
Jacktheforkie@reddit
Took the wrong entrance on my first day of work, I’d worked previously on the site and we used to go in that way but they had changed it since, they escorted me to the right place
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