Once upon a trespassing day

Once upon a time my friend Jordan and I explored a nearly demolished building on campus. Behold:

We entered from this window right here (after clearing some glass):

This is what we first saw inside after entering from the window above:

 

Then this:

We learned that they didn't completely clear the building of school materials.

It was so cool. I think we would have tried exploring more of this section of the building if we had brought breathing masks, sturdier shoes, and thick, working gloves. As it was, we were unable to conduct a deep search with duck feeding attire (i.e., the attire worn on duck feeding dates). 

Far from being ready to stop exploring, I had this brilliant idea to continue our adventure by scaling the second story of the building from the outside. Jordan agreed to come along.

We exited the building from the same window we entered, carefully avoiding the glass and placing our feet on a sturdy bent wire curving upward from the ground. Jordan helped me out a lot for this part. As I stood there awkwardly trying to help him (and not really doing anything helpful), I noticed this red-headed man watching me from outside the fence. At first I thought he was just curious so I waved and smiled, but as he kept staring, I got the impression he didn't approve. Jordan assumed he was someone he knew, but when he called out to him, he quickly walked away in a huff. 

I didn't think much of it as we walked to the other side of the building and tried to climb to the top. I noticed other people staring at us outside the fence of another portion of the demolition site. Before we were able to make it to the second story, the BYU police came. 

Here I was, seconds before they called to us to come over.

It turns out that that guy I saw totally ratted us out. 

WHAT A BUTT-HEAD! 

Who DOES that?!

Seriously! 

I would have loved to see his stupid, judgmental face when we only received a warning (it was a close call, guys--Jordan did a good job at placating those cops (and reminding them that there weren't any signs on the fence telling us that we couldn't explore the area)). So take that, you big dummy! 

I'm so so so so glad we only received a warning. I'm also glad the police officers were really nice. I probably would have cried if they yelled at us. I'm ALSO glad we didn't get hurt climbing through bent metal wires and broken glass (and piles of brick and cement that could have shifted under our feet and left us vulnerable to sharper objects underneath). Yeah, that was pretty stupid.

But what a cool adventure! I think this will count for my goal of climbing the life science building.