Woman: I was attacked in S.F. over Google Glass [View all]
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
In what may be the latest backlash against San Francisco’s tech industry, a woman was reportedly taunted and robbed this weekend in the city’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood for donning Google Glass — the cutting-edge eyewear seen as a revolution in either cool convenience or geeky creepiness.
According to friends and the victim’s Facebook page, Sarah Slocum, a tech writer and business consultant, was in a Haight Street bar Friday night demonstrating how the new device works when someone tore it off her face and ran off with it.
One person with the assailant told Slocum that her and her tech-type friends were “destroying the city,” Slocum says. She pursued the attacker — who eventually relinquished the Google Glass, Slocum explained. But another person with the assailant took her purse, cell phone and wallet during the pursuit.
Slocum filed a report with police, she says, but officials on Monday said they were not aware of the incident.
Read more: http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2014/02/24/woman-i-was-attacked-in-s-f-over-google-glass/
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