Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass

Dr Steve Mann's blog ^ | July 16, 2012 | Steve Mann

[CORedneck]

Wow, what douche bags. Of course I wouldn’t patronize a McD’s or any other fast food place while on vacation. My rule is if I can get at home, I don’t to that place elsewhere.

[jboot]

Depends who sees it, mostly. Get in a punch-up in front of the Gendarmie and you will experience French jail, even if you didn't start it. If you are a US serviceman, the MPs will stop by to get you out. Back in the day they'd drive you back to base and let you go with a stern warning. Not sure how it might work nowadays. Worse, I imagine.

Otherwise, if you make it quick and don't do any permanent damage people tend not to see what happened.

[Manic_Episode]

Perhaps they didn’t want anyone to know that the quarter pounder is called a royal with cheese there.

[publius911]

Odd - you'd think that the McDonald's menu was a top-secret document from these reactions to people with camera phones and, apparently, eyewear that has a "spy camera" appearance. What, are they afraid someone will deduce that the "Special Sauce" is Thousand Island Dressing? Makes no sense. Unless this is just excuse for harassing tourists.

Starting in 1972 I spent a month in France almost every year, mostly in or around Paris.
Being a lifetime photographer, I always had my camera. On my first few trips, I started taking pictures inside every McDonalds, and new ones as they popped up.
Never got beat up.

I guess I'm lucky to be alive.

Eventually, I was given a list of no-no things to photograph, including the highly secretive national police swat team as they traveled around Paris, but my greatest faux pas was unconsciously spending an entire afternoon in a strange neighborhood, full of anti-American grafitti and generally run down. Family had a hemorrage when I described the area to them : the muslim quarter. I will have to dig those photos out one of these days.

I have gotten wiser, the last 40 years...

[<1/1,000,000th%]

This looks more like a sales and marketing pitch.

Where is it written in the article that he contacted police?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Where is it written in the article that he contacted police?

Near the end after the pics;

"I also contacted the Embassy, Consulate, Police, etc., without much luck."