how to almost get arrested in berlin

1. stand in line for the dome of the reichstag (euivalent to the white house) which you can go up in for free.
2. get inside after an eternity in front of the rudest woman alive. pack yourself into the corner of the holding room that is quickly filling
3. realize that you have your huge knife in your bag
4. begin to calmly panic...run through your options in your head, while ttrying not to say the words 'huge knife' too loudly when explaining your rising blood pressure to your traveling buddy. you could run out those glass doors that are quickly closing and push past the 30 people in your way...crap! the doors closed whilst you were pondering this!! ok, so now, you think that maybe before you get to the metal detector and the scrary german officials there to give you a pat down and then a once over with the wand, that you have this big old knife in your purse for no apparent reason. this also seems like a bad idea.
5. stand in line for the metal detectors and break into a sweat as you watch the thourough search that all the others who DONT have weapons are going through...and think about your life getting deported from germany.
6. locate an exit!!! yes!!! there is an exit!!!! away from the mean security!!
7. head towards it...
8. get yelled at in german by a mean security woman...
9. feebly mutter 'exit...ausgang...exit...' and point at the only door that guarantees you and your knife toting ways freedom.
10. stand there as the woman gives you a once, twice, and third time over...till she finally decides to let you out.
11. get outside of the reichstag
12. proceed to run far, far from the reichstag...