Back in 2001 or 2002, my buddy and I were messing around with his camcorder, driving around doing dumb shit and filming it. No vandalism or anything, just being idiots and annoying people. At one point, we drive past this couple walking their dogs at night. I get the idea to suddenly stop right next to them, film them, and then just move on. They were really confused and we laughed about it. Several minutes later we see another couple and decide to do the same thing, only it's the same couple. More confusion and more laughter. Then we call it a night.
I think it was the next day or a couple days later, we're doing the same dumb shit with the camcorder and we see a couple walking around and decide to do the same thing. You guessed it, same freaking couple. More confusion, more laughter, but a little more aggravation on their part. And this is where we fucked up. I said, "Let's do that again on purpose." At this point, they're on a side road just around the corner, we film them, but the husband comes at us. We gun it and laugh our asses off. Until we realize we're in a small part of the neighborhood that only has one exit and the couple are standing right by it.
We give it a minute and try to leave but they're not budging, determined to do who knows what to us. So, we give it about ten more minutes and they're still there and now there's a car blocking the road. Fuck.
We wait even longer and decide we can only just try to jump the curb and gun it past them. We give that a shot, but they maneuver too quickly, we hit reverse, end up hitting a bush, and that's when the car blocking the road turns on the red and blues. Fucking undercover cop car.
Fortunately, we knew enough to know we hadn't actually broken the law save the bit with the bushes, so we just calmly did what the cop said. First of which was "PUT DOWN THE CAMERA!" Then he asked the driver, my buddy, to come over. He asked him what we were doing and my buddy explained the whole situation. The cop said something about doing that in "times like these" (post-9/11) but he was good natured enough to not arrest us or anything. He did make my friend call his mom and tell her what happened (which was a pretty hilarious conversation; "I've been stopped by a cop." "What? Why!? Were you speeding!?" "No, I was filming pedestrians." ".....w...what?"). Then he took our information down and said he'd be watching us. And that was that.
So, we don't film pedestrians anymore.