I got stopped by two goons taking pictures in, er Cite Europe shopping centre in Calais! As luck would have it, I knew the name of the new commercial director, and told them they could expect to hear about this again. They went away.
Then I got a tug from a security bloke at a publishing house I work at, taking pictures of two nice swans on the office pond. I asked him what could possibly be the problem with taking pictures of swans; I dunno, he said. Just following orders, like all the forelock-tugging numbnuts who wear epaulettes and a badge.
Best of all, I was on an American political forum baiting a couple of Israeli Americans. The topic of a bloke who was 'arrested' at the Israeli Embassy and got compo for having been roughed up came up. "Derserved it," they said. "Pictures of the Israeli Embassy could compromise security."
So a week later, I took a couple of snaps of the embassy and posted them on the forum. You could feel the blast of hot air right across the Atlantic.