[squirrel516]

Hey everyone. These pictures were taken in the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City in mid-September '09. A true story/description precedes the pictures.

So there I am, sleeping in my room at about 3am, when I hear a bunch of noise out in the hallway. It wasn't very loud, but at that hour, everything is amplified by the surrounding quiet. I was annoyed, because the noise (consisting of whispering and giggles) wouldn't go away. I waited about 5 minutes, but the noise makers weren't moving away or going to their room, so I finally got up to investigate. I fully intended to rip whoever it was a new one for being so rude as to make all that noise for so long at 3am.

But when I go to the door and peek through the peephole what do I see? A girl in a black dress with a camera giving directions to someone on the floor. I could only see the black dress girl and a few legs sprawled across the floor to my left, just out of view. As I listened I realized that they were drunk, acting silly, and using the background of the floor and hallway to take naughty pictures just outside my room! I couldn't see much, and after a minute or so the "photographer" moved off to my left, leaving only a few bare legs in my view. I continued to listen and couldn't believe what I was hearing. Stuff like, "Come on, just take your top off." And, "No way! What if someone sees?"

The photographer continued to press on, apparently having succeeded with getting two girls to go topless, but not the third. "No one's gonna see...everyone is sleeping. Come on have fun for once in your life!"

"Fine!" the holdout said. "You promise not to show anyone right?"

"I promise. Only the four of us." Even though the photographer was a girl, and obviously friends with the others, I couldn't help but think that she was acting like a guy trying to get a girl to strip on camera. Anyway, she won, and the holdout agreed to get topless, who kept saying stuff like, "OMG I can't believe I'm doing this! Shhhh! Don't make so much noise! Someone is gonna hear us and catch us!! If someone comes out I'm gonna die!"

It was at this point that I snapped out of my trance and half tip toe'd and half ran for my camera. When I got back to the door I quietly started to open it. I decided to turn the flash off and go with the burst mode. I also figured they would see me as soon as the door opened. So at first I only opened the door a few inches and stuck my hand and camera out the door. I couldn't even see where I was shooting, but I just aimed as best I could and started taking pictures. After a couple of seconds no one seemed to notice as they kept giggling and taking pictures (using their flash). So I got more bold and worked my way out the door. Then I heard it...

"OMG!!!!" One of them noticed me. I could tell by the nervous voice that it was the holdout. We all pretty much froze for a moment. Except the photographer in the black dress. She kept taking pictures and didn't seem to notice me. I finally snapped out of it, raised my camera, and started shooting again. It took all of a few seconds for them to jump up and run for it. One of them threw their drink at me (you can see the glass in one or two of the pictures) causing me to drop and cover my camera.

As they ran down the hall I heard a mix of "F-you a**hole", giggling, and "OMG he had a CAMERA??"

Alas, the pictures didn't come out very good at all. It was a difficult stealth situation delt with in the sleepy haze of 3am. Many of the pictures were to blurry to post, and only a few are worth posting at all. I did my best. Hopefully the true account of the story helps with the details. The pictures are posted below.