Wednesday, 18 February 2009

365 Ficlets - Day #285 ~ "Photo Legal"

“Excuse me, Sir, but could you explain to me what’s going on here?”

Frank looked up at the Police Officer that had approached him while he was framing the shot. The Officer’s face seemed blank to Frank, seemed to be devoid of anything either positive or negative leaving him no clues as to how to play the situation. His model, Tess, was already hurriedly covering her previously naked form and anxiously looking on to have the best chance of choosing her moment to run if that seemed to be the best course of action.

Frank was still deciding how to play this situation out when his thought process was interrupted by a shift from questions to commands from the Police Officer;

“Could you stand up, please Sir, and pass me your camera, please.”

Frank’s position on the Police had always been that they ought to be respected and obeyed, but he was fairly sure that he had not been breaking any laws, and more to the point that the Police Officer had no legal right to his camera. He decided to meet the guy half way and stood up.

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