The Joshua and Esther Blog

Well, hello there all you blogger fans! Welcome to today's episode of our blog straight from Nassau, Bahamas. Last time you found these troublesome whiteboys in a black neighborhood breaking into houses, today you'll find us troublesome whiteboys being taken into custody by police officers to a police station.

Yes, it's true, after we finished interviewing a kid in the program, we were driving around briefly while Tim was getting some footage of the houses and everything in the area. When we passed the police station, a police car happened to be there at the same time seeing us with the camera and pulled Tim, Mark, and Stefan over in the car ahead of Jonathan and I (Jason North [like the direction]). So we pulled in behind them, and Jonathan and I noticed one of the officers very large handgun he was putting his hand on. He was yelling at them to get out of the car and put their hands on top, while the other on who was cool was just saying no they don't have to just stay seated in the car. And, since our kia didn't start back up, Jonathan and I pushed the kia into the compound parking lot. We were taken inside the office of whoever was in charge of that police station who was on a power trip. He asked for Mark to explain who's permission we had to shoot, then when Mark tried to answer, he would cut him off and say he didn't care. And he would say he likes to keep things short and only talk about the facts, but then he went on and on talking about nothing relevant, only things about himself mostly and trying to tell us how he's worked with Navy seals and the air force and some stuff like that. What else did he say, "Everything's changed since 9/11" and "non citizens don't have rights to shoot video footage" (tell that to all the tourists on paradise island) and "we deal with national security" (which they have nothing to do with national security) and other outrageous comments.

We didn't get to explain things to the head guy, but when he left the room the cool cop started understanding what was going on as we were talking amongst ourselves. Really we didn't do anything wrong or break any laws. Jonathan and Stefan were trying to keep themselves from laughing. They broke protocal with not doing a check on us with immigration to see that we were legally in the country and all our video stuff was approved with customs and we had permission from the inspector of police to get footage. So after we left, Mark made a phone call and the guy who was treating us pretty unruly got a call, and may possibly have to write us a letter of apology.

We ended up erasing our 20 seconds of footage that wasn't really usable anyway that the police station was in because that was the easiest thing to do. Had we desired, they could have kept it in their custody until after the weekend when they talked with the inspector and find out we had permission, but it wasn't worth the hassle. Also, they didn't have any equipment to view our footage on with it being in DV cam mode, so we could have given them a blank tape if they were just going to destroy it or whatever.

One of the unruly guys comments was something about us possibly getting footage to make an attack on the station which is a joke on so many levels, but now everyone makes jokes about us being associated with Ben Laden making attacks on the Bahamas.

What else happened? Same old drug offers as usual. I'm having a lot of fun driving down here. Lots of round abouts, on the left hand side of the road that you forget sometimes utnil you see a car coming at you, alley type streets that twist and turn everywhere making you feel like you're in a movie car chase like in the bourne supremacy or something, a car that's an aoutmatic that we use as a stick shift so the engine doesn't die when we slow down, so many different factors that conglomerate to make a mega pie of funness. And as usual, we had Wendy's again today. That seems to be the trend of the week.

Alright, that's some of went on today. Tim loves his Bob Marley tattoo. He's thinking about getting one on his other pectoral muscle. There have been so many misquitos here biting me, I think I only have a few spots left on my skin they can possibly bite me at. Alright, I'm signing off. Tune in next time.

-Jason North (Like the Bahamian)-