I am fairly new to the game, so I generally just try to avoid looking in areas if people are hanging about. In times when I've been searching in more public areas, I've gotten a few strange looks, but no one has ever questioned me. I did have one funny experience though. I was in a parking lot, in a handicap parking sign that was cemented into a weight - nothing else around it. I figured it was a micro somewhere hidden in the sign. The parking lot was empty and it looked like the stores were empty. I was trying to look incosnpicuous... tying my shoe while looking all around. Then I realized someone in one of the darkened stores was watching out a window. I got back in the car and left, as I didn't want him calling the police. As I pulled out of the parking lot and looked back, I saw the guy out by the sign, looking all around it and looking very confused! It was pretty funny.
