LRC to the Rescue. wrote:
I see some people maybe wanting to follow him with out being in direct contact via an personal introduction. May be legal where you live, but I would think twice about potential liabilities . It could easily look like stalking and harassing and if an accident happens on your watch, that won't be cool.
Don't do stupid stuff.
IANAL, but it seems like a pretty big stretch to suggest that going out to a public road to watch a very publicly announced event for legitimate purposes is "stalking".
Missouri Revised Statue 565.225.2:
2. A person commits the crime of stalking if he or she purposely, through his or her course of conduct, harasses or follows with the intent of harassing another person.
("Harasses" means "to engage in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that serves no legitimate purpose, that would cause a reasonable person under the circumstances to be frightened, intimidated, or emotionally distressed.")
Illinois (next up):
720 ILCS 5/12-7.3. Stalking. (2011)
(a) A person commits stalking when he or she knowingly engages in a course of conduct directed at a specific person, and he or she knows or should know that this course of conduct would cause a reasonable person to:
(1) fear for his or her safety or the safety of a third person; or
(2) suffer other emotional distress.
(a-3) A person commits stalking when he or she, knowingly and without lawful justification, on at least 2 separate occasions follows another person or places the person under surveillance or any combination thereof and:
(1) at any time transmits a threat of immediate or future bodily harm, sexual assault, confinement or restraint and the threat is directed towards that person or a family member of that person; or
(2) places that person in reasonable apprehension of immediate or future bodily harm, sexual assault, confinement or restraint to or of that person or a family member of that person.
(a-5) A person commits stalking when he or she has previously been convicted of stalking another person and knowingly and without lawful justification on one occasion:
(1) follows that same person or places that same person under surveillance; and
(2) transmits a threat of immediate or future bodily harm, sexual assault, confinement or restraint to that person or a family member of that person.