Originally Posted by
LilAbner
On a tour of Egypt about 15 years ago we had 2 guys with Uzi's escorting us on our bus and on our flights for 10 days because as we were told, some dissidents want nothing more than to stop foreigners from going there to screw up Egypt's economy by causing tourists to stay away.
Escorting tourist buses while showing off their automatic weapons is the favored form of autoeroticism among Egyptian petty law enforcement officers.