Hey dude, give my phone back!
Last week, while innocently driving through Sharjah with a friend we managed to get caught up in a drugs raid. Crazy stuff like this could only happen to me on my holiday!
While driving along the water side we saw what looked like a group of people wrestling each other. Some in head-locks etc. So i naturally pulled out my N96 and snapped away. Almost instantly, one of the guys outside ran to our car and confiscated both of our phones. Turned out they were undercover drugs police on a raid. We were given a number of the drugs police department to get our phones back.
After what seemed like hours of driving, we finally managed to find the police station. We were summoned by the undercover police from the scene and asked a few questions. They mainly wanted to see the pics taken at the scene. The funny video of Arab Usher on Zain's phone induced an interesting reaction when our phones were being interrogated :-)
Tip: Be careful what rubbish you store on your phone in case you get pulled.
Lessons learnt: All this Citizen Reporting stuff is risky business!