Police Warning

Its near Preston, Lancashire right Motts? My uncle is a police officer around there, might have been caught by him =)

Kind of curious that they wouldn't just say "no trespassing." Is that kind of notice typical in the UK?

I've not seen any police notices at sites around here, most is usually private security firms promising all manner of hell if you get caught!

Well Brits are sort of anal retentive about those kind of signs. No loop holes

Translation would seem to be "go ahead and take all the photos you want, and take your time exploring"

I doubt very much that the police would bother to patrol a deserted hospital. The signs just supposed to scare people. I'm sure the police have quite enough to be getting on with on the streets!

yeah id aimagine most bobbies would laugh at the idea of patrolling an abandoned building...however...if you WERE caught removing things or causing damage... : /

That note is very British isn't it?

Be careful Motts. Try not to get caught.

its not like they have guns there so it will be "stop, or I will say stop again"

They don't have guns but a whack with their truncheon *giggle* will give you a dead leg for days!

lol. It seems like you were completely in the clear then.

any lawyer can see there's no case for trespass there. as long as you didn't take anything or cause damage.....
-mink-

I dont think either that police would guard those places, imagine that you were police officer, how frustrated you would get if you had to guard an empty hospital.. But my friends mother called the police when she heard noises from empty dairy, threre are lots of teens sometimes partying in there. Every place is torn apart by them. Can everyone explain that why in almost every abandoned buildings have arrows painted on several places?

the arrows or other markings are the route security are supposed to patrol. often there are 'swipe' points where they have to swipe a card to prove they have taken the proper route.

trespass isnt really upheld in the uk anymore.. so its a case of go where you like.. just dont steal stuff or ruin the place with graffiti.

LOL! if only it was like that in the US

Any old buildings that are not completely fortressed up could be used by squatters. if Motts got into these places easily, then anybody else could.

And if anybody else could, then someone looking for a 'dead body hiding place' could also get in. So regular patrols would be needed.

I used to be a security guard at a University and abandoned buildings (believe it or not, also a psych hospital attached to the Uni) were regularly checked by different shifts.

It's a note put up by security to scare the timid. :-) Nothing more, nothing less.

As English law would have it, "Stop! Or I will say stop again!"

i just went 2dat at half 2 am pitch black and i swear i heard screams my friend went in to shock and is said if u smell lavender around there are evil spirits or ghosts as 1ne myt say..it was realy scary ive jus gt bk frm there now and looking it up we heard alot of noices people may think im mad but we even so a pair of eye and something walkn a tall dark figure thats when we decided 2 leave!!

Keleigh, your name sounds so nice to this American pleblein.

haha, there are guards who really do take time to patrol the area to make sure no-one is doing anything they shouldnt
they dont really have a problem with people being in there
just taking things or damaging, as said on the sign

but as happened to some friends of mine, they have fun with their job....
my friends were exploring the abandoned buildings at night [not advisable] so the guards decided to follow them, and try to scare them as much as possible. creeping up behind them, making noises, banging, heavy breathing and the like. then finally jumping out at them, scaring them half to death, then leading them out, laughing and telling them to go home

so yes, us brits really are strange enough to take time to patrol empty buildings XD

An American sign would probably say 'Stop or we shall assume you are a terrorist and shoot you, then panic and invade some poor countries, so actually, feel free to roam' Long sign i know but thats Americans for you, have to be bigger and better at everything when we all know that they are crap at most things. Anyway i live right near Whittingham and when i went there it was scary as hell!

Quite a strong opinion there Gordo.
Good thing we wern't crap at coming to the aid of England when Hitler was attempting to level your country, in fact he was a terrorist, hmmm.

I could go on but I won't, this site is to be enjoyed, not post political views and rants.

IF SLUGS ARE USED police WILL BE CALLED!!

(sign taped to a gumball machine in my neighborhood outside a corner store of Kensington(Phila.,that is) when I was about 9 or 10 and I can't forget that.)

funny that, this sign and hospital being in england and all that! nice comment gordie i also live near here

message above for florida jen

you are all brainless going into buildings you dont know the danger i know how bad it is think before you enter

Why do they always try to take the fun out of things? People like to explore creepy, abandoned places. Let 'em be.

THINGS HAVE CHANGED SINCE UVE BEEN THE GUARDS HAVE CARS AND DOGS NOW IF THEY SEE YOU UR SCREWD

Went Last Night and we got in
was spooky but fun

Perhaps Taylor Miles would sing a different song had he spent his life controld wirhin these walls?

This is fantastic!

nopee i got caught on there with my family we got done soo i advise you not to go and if you do try not to get cought and stay clear of small rooms they callapsed on my friend it was funny but he hurt him self

Peter, we're not called 'guards'.
We're called 'officers'.

And we have many more resources than dogs and cars...

does anybody know if people actually still patrol that place it seems a waste of time??