trouble or Trouble (spot the one with a capital T)

As of December 15, 2009, I am pretty sure that MT has made it on some governmental watchdog lists. Oh yes, I am pretty sure he has. "But why do you say that you strikingly gorgeous hunk of a blogger?".... Hah, you lovable platypusses. I will tell you why if you only stopped fawning so.

Let me start at the beginning. Marcus Aurelius the Third (AKA MT), Prince of Deep breaths (aka PD) and I decided to go on an adventure. We decided that we were going to find our way around by walking. This was fine as we wanted to get to Jantar Mantar which was fairly close to the hotel.

We must have taken a wrong turn, because soon we were close to office buildings including one with with a  high wall and even higher fences. I saw other people asking security guards directions so I decided to do the same. I started to ask a guard the route to Jantar Mantar, and while he was explaining in very vague terms where we were, MT and PD stood a bit behind me looking at the traffic. MT decided that this would be a good time to test out his early christmas gift (Hi K! Lovely gift BTW.) The gift in question is a RCA HD video camera. As I was asking for directions, I hear another guard yell, "No pictures NO PICTURES." The guy I was with suddenly snaps into action yelling " NO CAMERA, NO PICTURE.". MT, who up till then was filming the traffic on the road, was looking at me, and I was busy putting two and two together, and was not liking the answer. All I could say was I don't think we are allowed to take pictures here, and MT instantly apologized and put the camera away. Things seemed to have calmed down, when within minutes were joined by a young man who was very angry looking. He wasn't angry but just angry looking. He demanded to see what he had filmed, while the other guards tried explaining that he did not film the building. This is when I glanced at the young angry man's ID badge.

G4S Security

U.S Embassy

It struck all of us at the same time that to all others it must have looked like a scam where one distracts the guard and the others take pictures of the building. And when the building in question is not just any building, but the U.S-freaking-Embassy things get warm very fast. Mark quickly showed the angry young man that he only took the shot of the road and complied with the request to delete the video. As we left we heard a senior officer coming and berating the other guys and more shouts at each other.

Once we had moved about a kilometer away, MT decided that he still wanted some footage of the traffic, and so he scanned the surrounding area for tall office buildings with taller fences, stood behind a lampost and took a very very short video of the traffic. You could say we were a bit shaken up by that incident. regardless of this I am sure we have more adventures awaiting us.

P.S I have a video of PD that I shot this morning. This unedited video will make it up later up this afternoon.