Getting stopped by two soldiers armed with machine guns and being threatened with jail time was to me one of the funniest things I've ever experienced. Let me explain.
On a day trip to Jinja with some friends from the local Ultimate Frisbee team, I got to drive part of the way, when we were sure that the roads were safe enough. While I drove, the owner of the car took some pictures of the scenery using my camera, including some ill-fated pictures of a bridge over the Nile.
A pair of guards standing at the end of the bridge saw this, and asked us to pull over. At first it seemed that it was the picture-taking itself that they were irritated about, but it soon became clear that it was not. They had seen foreigners in the car. Foreigners means rich. Rich means ching ching.
They had seen a bribe opportunity.
Only problem was, they had no clue how to elicit a bribe from people. All they did was jump from one wild accusation to another, in desperate hopes of frightening us. We merely answered their questions politely, and told them that we'd be more than willing to speak to their boss if they wanted. This was apparently not something they wanted, so they let us go with a warning. How nice of them.
We ended up driving from there, leaving the soldiers' wallets a little less filled than they perhaps had hoped for.
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