the facts The journalist counted the number of steps as he climbed toward the president’s palace. He at once came to in front of the palace. On arriving outside the main gate, then he saw a high wall which surrounds the president’s palace. He climbed onto the wall in order to measure the wall’s height .While he was busy measuring the wall, a police saw him and ordered him soon come down from the wall. Though the journalist was trying to explain why he was here, the police refused to believe him. He was arrested and sent to prison because the police thought that he planned to steal something from the palace. When the journalist was trying to escape, he made things worse for himself. This proved to the police that he was a real thief!