Originally Posted by
CargoDane
I do see videos sometimes of someone pointing to their camera and saying "You're on video", making the other person retreat. I guess I could make a dummy camera or find some old non-working for the same effect if I got into enough confrontations to warrant that (which I don't).
Bringing a camera to a potential fist, tire iron, knife or gun fight with an enraged stranger on the street and pointing the device as if it were a defensive weapon may not be such a good idea.
The someone having a camera (or phone or fake camera) pointed at them and told that "You're on video" may not necessarily be intimidated and retreat, but rather may become more enraged and even provoked to at best break the camera or phone, or do something worse.