Dear Ashley and Joe: Your poor sweet mommy just got arrested in China...

[proud2BlibKansan]

I woke up early this morning and decided to go off and take some pictures before breakfast. The air was chilly but the sky was clear and it was a beautiful day in Shenyang so I walked along singing "Here comes the sun." And it's all right.

But it wasn't.

I took pictures of some spring cherry blossoms and some shops and alleyways and the North Korean consulate and the Russian consulate next door to it. Good. Now I'll have more scenic photos to e-mail back home. And then I took a photo of the American consulate. And then all hell broke loose.

"Halt!" a rent-a-soldier type in a green uniform screamed at me in Chinese. I tried to ignore him and keep walking but by then I was surrounded by five or six more green rent-a-soldiers, all yelling, pointing at my camera and pointing at me. OMG. This can't be happening!

The soldiers kept yelling stuff like "Stop right there!" and "Hand over your camera!" and "I think we got us a terrorist spy here, caught in the act!" and "20 years in the gulag for her!" At least that seemed to be the gist of what they were saying in VERY expressive Chinese.

I'm screwed. I'm screwed. I'm screwed.

more . . . (chilling!) http://jpstillwater.blogspot.com/

[justinaforjustice]

1. Very Nice Writing! So Glad...

You didn't get shot by U.S. Embassy rent-a-cops before you could submit it!

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. It really exposes the evil in China

Great blog too. Check it out.

[PetraPooh]

3. China's evil??? Seems like it was USA's evil, it was the US Consulate that

was being photographed and caused the uproar; she had photographed two communist consulates with no incident. As much as I don't care for the ways of the Chinese, it is not accurate to blame this incident on them.