Do yourself a favor and do not photograph anything in any
city in Zambia. My son and I were arrested by beret
wearin', machine gun totin' paramilitary types downtown
Lusaka, Zambia in April '99 when I photographed the
reflection of us together in a plate glass window. We were
accused of spying and were in the process of being booked
and transported to the central jail when they initiated a
bribe. To make a long story short and skip all the details
we finally got out of there after they took what they
believed to be all of our money. (98,000 Kwacha and $60
U.S.) That was by far the most horrifying hour of my life.
Later another American told us the same thing happened to
him when he took a close up shot of a basket of fish in a
market.
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These types will back down if you let them know that you
aren't going to pay. They can't put a foreign national in
jail without creating a major ruckus.