Posted on 11/30/2013 5:02:33 PM PST by rawhide
Seattle may be home for tech giants Amazon and Microsoft, but Google Glass isn't welcome in one local diner.
Nick Starr, a network engineer, found this out the hard way after wearing Glass to Lost Lake Lounge last week. (Via Facebook / Nick Starr)
After being seated, Starr writes, "A woman who works there comes up to us and tells me that the owner's other restaurant doesn't allow Google Glass and that I would have to either put it away (it doesn't fold up btw) or leave." (Via Facebook / Nick Starr)
The two then reportedly had a back-and-forth.
Starr says he's eaten at Lost Lake with his $1,500 headset before and asked to see where the restaurant's anti-Glass policy was posted. He and his specs eventually left. (Via Google)
But both Starr and the restaurant continued their disagreement on Facebook.
Lost Lake Lounge posted its policy Tuesday. "We kindly ask our customers to refrain from wearing and operating Google Glasses [sic] inside Lost Lake. … And if we ask you to leave, for God's sake, don't start yelling about your 'rights.' Just shut up and get out before you make things worse."
(Excerpt) Read more at ajc.com ...
I need to have control over what other people do!
Nerds who think they are soooooo special..typical narcissists...rules of common courtesy and privacy don’t apply to them.
I imagine this google-glass wearer will soon be bring up a lawsuit. Long gone are the days when a business could decide who they want to sell to.
those people can secretly be taking pictures and that can be banned by the business owner
People banning on cellphones at restaurants is also rude.
“And if we ask you to leave, for God’s sake, don’t start yelling about your ‘rights.’ Just shut up and get out before you make things worse.”
Excellent!
You want to control business owners?
I believe it's covered in the Constitution Bills, in the 57th Amendment, isn't it?
Or is it in the Declamation?? Something like that!
He better hope he doesn’t get me on the jury.
google glass seems pretty awesome actually. I want it.
I’m still of the mind that a business ought to be able to serve whomever they like, but if you’re going to have a policy such as this it’s only common courtesy to post it at the door so people don’t walk into this sort of problem unknowing.
I well remember the days when restaurants could post signs that said “We have the right to refuse service to anyone.”
That’s fine. But if you wish to speak to me, and decline to remove it when I ask, I’ll slap it off your face.
people’can have personal recording devices on them and using them in their daily functioning.
it’s why we can record cops, it’s why we have dash cams when we drive, it’s why we have recording devices going when we carry, to have evidence of what really happens to us, in case we have to deal’with liars and criminals.
In most places, that's considered assault.
/johnny
google glass is not invisible, they knew he had one because he was wearing it plainly and they saw it.
No, actually. Battery.
In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Google glass-wearing customer kicked out of diner, 1rudeboy wrote:
That’s fine. But if you wish to speak to me, and decline to remove it when I ask, I’ll slap it off your face.
Correct answer...LOL
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