Be Warned: Do Not Photograph the Limo in Chief

Apparently, some amateur photogs learned the hard way that you don't take pictures of the President's limo.

Asylum's White House reporter, Tommy Christopher, witnessed a somewhat tense interaction between a Secret Service agent and a man who had snapped an image of the presidential limo's interior.

I was copping a smoke outside the briefing room, where the Secret Service was prepping two of the presidential limos to take him to an event at the Ritz Carlton. They were checking something under the hood when one of the agents pointed through the briefing room window and shouted, "Hey! C'mere!"

Apparently, he had seen one of the cable news tech guys shooting a picture with his iPhone. He made the guy come outside, and show him that he had deleted the photo.

Yikes. Well, now we know. If I had a burly, six-foot-tall Secret Security agent bearing down on me, I'd delete my photograph too.

According to Christopher, the rules are as follows: under no circumstances can photographs be taken of a presidential limo while either the hood or trunk is open.

Despite the no-cameras rule, Christopher was able to take a pretty good mental snapshot:

I can tell you that there were no signs of any hookers or Kenyan birth certificates, but I thought I saw something that looked an awful lot like a flux capacitor.

Maybe that's how Obama was able to travel back in time and save the world, as suggested by Jen Sorenson of Slowpoke comics fame.

Mystery solved.