Probably so... this was the San Diego ComicCon, and that's the biggest annual comics/gaming/media con in the country. There were probably several thousand fan people attending, with a lot of them on the gaming floor or nearby. You can imagine the stir of a couple of thousand fanboys and fangirls all turning around to watch Frodo fleeing from security guards... and then all of them moving to get a closer look. Could have been a big mess... wish I'd been there.