Friday, June 20, 2008

Berlin Premiere of Hancock

We went to Potsdamer Platz for the red carpet thing for Hancock. Yes, we saw Will Smith. Talya wanted to jump over the rail and get onto the red carpet. Thankfully, she didn't.
After the thing was pretty much all over, I decided that I wanted one of the banner things that was covering the railing keeping us off the red carpet. So I pulled out my trusty pocket knife and started cutting through the zip ties holding the banner one at a time. At one point I was cutting through one on the bottom and my friends were like "don't get up. just stay down." When they told me that, I stayed down and slipped my knife into someone else's purse. After the coast was clear, I got back up and started cutting. The key was not to draw attention to what I was doing. That meant not letting banner fall where it was already cut. Easy solution: there were like 7 of us so the others spread out and held the banner in place until I was finished cutting. When I was done we passed the news along and on the count of three like two people walked off with the banner and shoved it in Cheryl's purse.
Then I cut off a second banner. Then the employees started to come out and take them away. Kyle tried to bribe one of the guys working. That didn't work. The same guy gave Kyle a banner later when someone else just tried to grab it.
So now I have this huge banner from the Berlin premiere of Hancock that I have no where to put. You see that white thing at the bottom of the picture by Will Smith? It's one of those.

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