I dropped the Employer of those guards an email telling them what I think of the situation.
Guards that would bear false witness and lie to cover up an abuse of an innocent persons rights are NOT the kind of people I would want working for me, nor the type a customer would want to have to deal with. .

AWSOME! Occams Razor in action!

take what you like about that shot (nice by the way) and recreat it when the sky is a little darker or with lights you can control.. perhaps a hdr image when the sky is darker..

one eg:
highspeed sync flash.... one flash with shoot through umbrella behind your subject, one flash infront both off camera both set to HS mode to use a fast enough shutter speed to bring down the ambient sky...

another eg:

Powerful strobes that give you a small enough aperture to bring down the sky to within range of your shutter sync speed...

plus what george said...
add your own background or scrim...
also photoshop... use threshhold filter create a layer mask then fill in the sky....
lastly there is a graduated nd filter and reflector combo to bring down the highlights and fill in the foreground.

Being short with people that are harassing you is understandable...

Making up false accusations (he was in the lobby, he photographed us) proves they KNEW what they had done was wrong.

I wouldn't want people I knew to be liars guarding my bank, and would support any protests calling for thier dismissal.

I often take a reading off my palm and open it up a stop.... when ever I don't have a greycard handy....
learned from experience that is close enough.... usually.
the way to check is to take one reading off a grey card, then in the same light, take another reading off your palm... then figure out how far off grey your palm is... you'll always have your hand handy, even if the greycard is not.

I solved that issue a long time ago.
tripod (two legs padded with foam, mine also has a pistol grip, manfrotto).
Superclamp (clamped onto the non padded leg near the top of tripod).
mini ball head with quick release plate.

I clamp the camera (my video cameras are quite small and harrd to hold steady) to one tripod leg, hold the pistol grip (angled down 90 deg) and rest the padded legs on my shoulder, to make a nice, comfortable over the shoulder camera rig.

pop the camera off the tripod pistol grip, snap it into the ballhead on the clamp, and away you go, nice and steady.

rosco make a nice gel kit for portable flashes.
link
I once got a sample pak I think they disconued it and started the "Strobist pak" due to strobist creating a huge demand for sample paks...

there are sunpak and quantim flash units that bridge the gap between portable and studio...
link

as Asian markets open up, and Asian consumers increase in numbers, Marketing trends will reflect the need to sell to those markets. Nothing to do with anything but using Asian faces to sell to Asian consumers.

Never lose you boat anchor again, with these floating anchors.