Originally Posted by flymo

this is a point thats crossed my mind every time I watch a programme like Road Wars, often you see people getting agitated by the presence of a TV camera and they are told they have no rights to tell the guy to stop filming them. A number of times the presence of the camera has wound up the person to the point that they have gone on to be arrested for swearing or some other undesirable action.

So its ok to get your pals on TV and to make a programme like that without any regard for the persons preferences but not for some 'obnoxious squirt' to take pictures in a public place?

DP, sorry but I dont agree on the military in public thing. I know its your personal view rather than a right but taking part in a uniformed parade along a street in a public place puts you in a position where you should not be at all surprised to be photographed. If it creates a risk to have military personnel pictured in public then they should never have been there in the first place.

The inspector was raking up excuses to win an argument. The kid may have been a little obnoxious but he had every right to be there in my opinion, good on him for standing his ground.