If I suddenly go missing, you should probably call the U.S. Capitol Police. For the second consecutive Thursday, I went down to D.C. to cover a story for Maryland Newsline.

You’ll recall that last week I was stopped and given a talking-to for not having a tripod permit for shooting on the Capitol grounds. Well, this week I was in Southeast D.C. at the site where they are going to build the new Nationals stadium. There’s nothing down there. It’s desolate, dusty and pretty much abandoned–the last place where I expected to talk to anyone, let alone police.

So I am doing this sort of wide shot of this street, then turn to get a closeup of this one building. As I’m doing the closer shot, a white SUV pulls up behind me and I hear “What are you doing” in a quite-stern voice. I explained what I was doing, and the kind U.S. Capitol police officer kindly informed me that during that wide shot, I had managed to shoot his “secure facility.” Whoops. He asked for my ID and all of my info and asked me to erase that portion of my tape–which of course I did since I am pretty sure that next time I go to D.C., I’m going to run afoul of them again and I really don’t want to go to jail.

But fortunately this situation ended amicably, and I was able to anchor a pretty rockin’ show. Check it out. It’s the March 9th episode.