I can agree with you to a certain extent and in principle. It was drilled into me from a young age that when you sit down for a meal, especially with family, that that time is sacred and shouldn't be disturbed. Of course a lot of that goes out the window when you're in a public dining establishment. Lots of places are loud, busy, and annoying. Regardless, I would never do anything to bother someone famous if I saw them in a restaurant. But that's just me and it's certainly not against the law to do otherwise.
I'm not sure but it may be 'bordering' against being against the law. Depends where you are.
But the simple truth is that the amount of privacy you're entitled to when you're smack dab in the middle of a public place is... slim, to say the least. Jeremy can't stroll down to the nearest public beach, strip down and enjoy some skinny dipping, and then get pissed off and start yelling at everyone who'll be staring for "invading his privacy". You're in a public place genius, if you wanted privacy, you should have gone somewhere private. It's not rocket science.
Again, I agree for most of it. For me, if I took my friends or family to a restaurant where my table wasn't ready, and were all sort of milling around the front part, drinking beer or wine, then yes, that is sort of a
quasi-public place. If one of the people standing there close to us, also waiting on a table asked politely if they could take our pics, I'd gladly say yes. No matter how tired or crappy I felt.
You DO owe your fans...well...almost everything really. No fans means um...no fan base.
Just to throw an un-TG-related analogy out there; this forum has an entire section dedicated to vehicle sightings. If you're out and about and see a cool car, you can snap a pic and share it with the forum here. So imagine that you're at a local hot spot, going for a walk, checking out the shops, etc, when you hear a wonderful low growling exhaust. You look and spot a Lamborghini Reventon gliding down the street towards you. You happily fish out your camera, kneel down on the sidewalk, and snap a few pictures as it drives by. But the driver sees you, slams on the brakes, jumps out of the car and accosts you. Strips the camera from your hands and yells at you for "invading his privacy". How do you respond? Do you drop to your knees and grovel at his feet, begging for forgiveness for being such an inconsiderate selfish asshole? Hardly. The guy is driving a flashy car on a public road in broad daylight inches from hundreds of people. If he wanted privacy, he should take his overpriced Murcielago back home and stay there. Or buy a normal car that doesn't attract tons of attention. Sometimes you just can't have your cake and eat it too. Life sucks, deal with it.
And again, I mostly agree with that scenario.. If you see a beautiful car coming down the street that you just
need a pic of, then just do it in a way that it doesn't focus on the driver, the plates on the car, or anything but the car. Most drivers if approached in a polite way, will be more than willing to show off their babies.
Yes, some are just twats, but...there's nothing to be done with them. Just move on.
Now if you've been
obviously stalking that car or driver for a bit, and the driver knows it....Hell, for me, I might just drive over
by you fairly fast, and 'ahem', fairly close as well.
Just to say "Howdy!"
It all breaks down to plain old fashioned common sense folks.
Put yourself in their shoes for a week. Where just opening the front door for the mail can be a photo opportunity. Wether you want it or not.
It doesn't matter if your in a 5 star restaurant, or in line at Micky-Dee's. Once you've been sat down and want to just eat, for me...all pics, signatures and etc can and will have to wait till I'm done.
Or, if you really know how to take pics while being truly unobtrusive, then click away.
But just give them some respect.
