Oh yeah, I frequently find myself shopping at Target with my SLR out of the camera bag, the lens mounted and the mode set to RAW, just in case I need to do some serious PhotoShop work. ;-)
Shades of that retired couple with the tape-recorder-enabled, cell-phone-intercepting, dash-mounted-scanner in their Lincoln Continental.
>>Oh yeah, I frequently find myself shopping at Target with my SLR out of the camera bag, the lens mounted and the mode set to RAW
I think the story said that the photographer had been tipped off beforehand.