Google Glasses record person stealing them in a bar

From	RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com>
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Subject	Google Glasses record person stealing them in a bar
Date	2014-02-26 20:50 +0000
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From the "Strange Days are here" department:
Title: Stolen from tech writer, Google Glass dutifully records the suspect
Author: Barry Levine
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 20:12:31 -0500
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Caption: Molotov's bar
Source: Google+

A woman wearing a Google Glass walks into a bar. Then the punchline for this
setup evaporated when someone stole her Glass — which recorded her alleged
assailants.

Tech writer Sarah Slocom was in the punk rock bar Molotov’s[2] in San
Francisco’s famed Haight-Ashbury district on Friday night. As she was
demonstrating Glass to some bar compatriots, she was confronted by two women,
after which a man took the $1,500 accessory from her face. As she reported on
Facebook[3]:

“OMG so you’ll never believe this but… I got verbally and physically asaulted
[sic] and robbed last night in the city, had things thrown at me because of
some wanker Google Glass haters, then some *bleeeeeeeeeep* tore them off my
face and ran out with them then and when I ran out after him his *bleeeeeeep*
friends stole my purse, cellphone walet [sic] and everything..”

According to witnesses, she got her Glass back, but not her purse, wallet, or
phone. On Facebook, Slocum said she had “started recording them to protect
myself,” taking footage of the alleged thief. She has filed a report with the
police, and fortunately has not reported any injuries.

San Francisco’s KPIX5 TV reported[4] that, at first, several people watching
her demonstration were friendly, but others became agitated by the
possibility of being recorded. The station said a man insulted her, another
man accompanying her issued some fisticuffs at the insulter, the small crowd
started jeering, and Slocum was recording.

One bar patron, Brian Lester, told the station that some people were “just
rather insulted that someone thinks it’s OK to record them the entire time
they’re in public.” Another bystander, Brian, described Molotov’s as “not
really Google Glass country.”

Some San Francisco-watchers have pegged this incident as indicative of the
growing tensions between tech workers and the working class in the city.

Regardless, Google may want to add several dos and don’ts to its growing list[5]
of recommended and to-be-avoided Glass behaviors:

* Until the price drops from its current $1,500 price tag, do not demo
Glass in a bar called Molotov’s. Similarly, skip cars while you’re
driving them[6] and movie theaters[7].
* If you are a would-be thief and/or assailant, do notice that you might
want to select something/someone that is not recording you. (Reference:
Strange Days[8].)
* Do watch the expected Law and Order episode where a Glass-wearing
participant tests our understanding of how crime and punishment is
supposed to work.

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[3]: https://www.facebook.com/sarahaslocum/posts/10102879287900773 (link)
[4]: http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2014/02/24/woman-i-was-attacked-in-s-f-over-google-glass/ (link)
[5]: https://sites.google.com/site/glasscomms/glass-explorers (link)
[6]: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-rajewski/arrest-that-person-theyre_b_4638946.html (link)
[7]: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2014/01/20/amc-movie-theater-calls-fbi-to-arrest-a-google-glass-user/ (link)
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Google Glasses record person stealing them in a bar RS Wood  <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-26 20:50 +0000
  Re: Google Glasses record person stealing them in a bar "q.kontinuum" <achsis_of_elvis@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-28 08:31 +0100
    Re: Google Glasses record person stealing them in a bar Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-02-28 10:07 +0200
      Re: Google Glasses record person stealing them in a bar "q.kontinuum" <achsis_of_elvis@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-28 09:33 +0100
        Re: Google Glasses record person stealing them in a bar Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-02-28 12:08 +0200
    Re: Google Glasses record person stealing them in a bar RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-28 15:45 +0000
      Re: Google Glasses record person stealing them in a bar greymausg <maus@mail.com> - 2014-02-28 19:55 +0000
  Re: Google Glasses record person stealing them in a bar "wjwlsn" <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-28 12:49 -0600

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