A San Francisco reporter working the tech beat said his Google Glass was stolen right off his face while he walked in the city's Mission District.

20-year-old technology journalist Kyle Russell told the SF Gate that a woman passing by Valencia and 16th Streets on Friday night snatched the $1,500 wearable computer from him, then smashed it on the ground while yelling, "Glass!"

"The way the person said 'Glass' when they pulled it from my face and also the flourish with which they destroyed Glass made me suspect that it was about the device itself, not so much about getting it to sell it," he told KRON 4 News. "It was more of a, 'I want to destroy this thing.'"

Russell, who was covering a protest against Google that afternoon for Business Insider, wrote a response to the event that expressed sympathy for the assailant, and discussed the larger issues that tech companies moving into the San Francisco Bay Area have triggered.

Much of San Francisco's local community has lamented the enormous spike in number of tech employees moving into the area and driving up rent, leaving many citizens priced out of their communities. It seems general disdain for Google, its products and the large number of companies getting comfortable in the Bay Area has created a rift between natives and transplants.

Russell, who lives in Berkeley and attends UC Berkeley part-time, said he's unsure if he'll get another device to replace his Glass.

"If I'm someone giving off the appearance that I'm flaunting it or flaunting wealth...I don't know if I want to wear it," the self-proclaimed gadget junkie told SF Gate.

Another California man was robbed of his Google Glass on Monday night in Los Angeles, just one day before the device went on public sale.

The victim, whose identity has not yet been released, said he was at On The Waterfront Café in Venice Beach when two men approached him wielding a Taser. They managed to steal his Glass and laptop computer, the Associated Press reported.