@yogibear 550944 wrote:
Thanks for your replies.
Friends and open laptops! Never a good mix… I’ve seen a place that is boarded up, but it is next door to a police station. It seems pretty secure from what I can tell and would need some proper ninja squatters to open it.
if it is still an operational Police Station (many have in fact been closed and are empty, some friends did actually once squat a former Police Station :laugh_at:) then that is way too risky. Even if its commercial property, the cops are more than likely going to keep an eye on it and often (along with other Emergency Services, especially the Fire Brigade) have an agreement with the building owners to use it for training purposes (practising raids or rescues, training GP dogs and drugs dogs etc). where I used to live in SE England the Fire Brigade kept a close watch on empty buildings.
If they did get squatted they didn’t grass on the folk but they did count them (which was fair enough, as then if there was a fire or other emergency they’d know if they needed to be worried about anyone being trapped).
when my mates did squat the old Police Station of course the feds did eventually turn up but to be fair even they saw the funny side of it and they were more concerned because some folk were European and had brought a small child with them (not in a racist way, they were worried about child welfare stuff and the kid being vulnerable etc…).
