Posted on 02/25/2014 8:58:19 AM PST by rawhide
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) A Bay Area woman said she was attacked for wearing the Google Glass wearable computer at a bar in San Franciscos Haight-Ashbury.
Tech writer Sarah Slocum wrote on her Facebook page that she was at Molotovs on Haight Street Friday night. Slocum said she was showing someone at the bar how the high-tech glasses work, when two women confronted her. Then, a man ripped the Google Glass off of her face.
OMG so youll never believe this but I got verbally and physically assaulted and robbed last night in the city, had things thrown at me because of some *** Google Glass haters Slocum wrote on her Facebook page.
Several witnesses told KPIX5 that Slocum was very friendly, as were others in the bar who were excited to see the high tech glasses demonstrated.
But then, the witnesses said some people inside the bar got upset about the possibility of being recorded by the glasses. Brian Lester said he watched as a man insulted Slocum, then a man accompanying her retaliated with his fists.
The crowd was jeering as any last call crowd would do with a fight outside of a bar, Lester said. She was running around very excited and people were telling her, youre being an *** take those glasses off.
I think everybody was just upset that she would be recording outside of a bar this late with obvious embarrassing behavior going on, Lester added. And just rather insulted that someone thinks its okay to record them the entire time theyre in public.
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Especially a place that serves cocktails.
Apparently, at least one guy thought his fists might serve that purpose.
That’s why some Seattle bars have specifically said that people wearing a Glass are NOT welcome in their establishments.
Questioning if this really happened at all. The story has the scent of a FB attention whore.
So we can see what Google Glass cannot do....protect you.
Perhaps she should start with a Kimber and then move on to the expensive toys. If you cannot defend it, you don’t own it.
It’s not about the glass, babe. What the hell are you doing in a hippie bar in San Franciscos Haight-Ashbury? Do you expect to be treated with respect in the lowest depth of the counter-culture?
I wonder if they serve Molotov cocktails there................
Beat me to it.
As with lots of other tech, the genie is, or shortly will be, out of the bottle on this one.
There are some really good uses for this tech, notably requiring police officers to wear them at all times.
Police brutality (and false accusations thereof) would largely disappear.
THANK GOD THERE WERE NO CELLPHONE CAMERAS AT THE BAR!
. . . what happens in a dive bar stays in the dive bar (or parking lot)
no recordings please...
That 3rd eye needs UV protection, too......
Maybe it was a gay bar. Thus the hostility.
Diversity, multiculturalism, and above all; tolerance. All on perfect display in San Francisco!
You have to think like a liberal.
Big Brother doesn't worry you.
Being in a viral YouTube video terrifies you.
Then don't go out in public because in the United States the right of the people to record or photograph anything that can be seen in or from a public space is a protected activity under the First Amendment.
Which is exactly as it should be.
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