A San Francisco Bay Area woman was reportedly attacked at a local bar while showing off her new Google Glass device.
Sarah Slocum, a tech writer based in San Mateo, was allegedly assaulted on Friday night at Molotov's on Haight Street.
Slocum wrote on her Facebook wall that she was demonstrating how her Google Glass worked to some people at the bar when two women accosted her. A man then tore the pair of high-tech glasses off of her face, according to a report by CBS' local station KPIX.
"OMG so you'll never believe this but...I got verbally and physically assaulted and robbed last night in the city, had things thrown at me because of some *** Google Glass haters," Slocum posted online.
Additionally, she said, someone nicked her bag and cell phone. Although she never found the stolen purse, she did get the Google Glass back, which held video recordings of the man who removed the Glass from her face initially.
According to eyewitnesses who spoke with KPIX, Slocum was relatively jovial and non-confrontational while showing a group of curious people at the bar how her wearable computer worked. Suddenly, a handful of attendees inside Molotov's grew anxious that Slocum was recording them without their consent.
Brian Lester told KPIX that he saw a man verbally assault Slocum. Another man who was with the San Mateo resident then started punching the guy who originally delivered the insult.
"The crowd was jeering as any last call crowd would do with a fight outside of a bar," Lester recalled. "She was running around very excited...and people were telling her, 'You're being an a** take those glasses off.' I think everybody was just upset that she would be recording outside of a bar this late with obvious embarrassing behavior going on. And just rather insulted that someone thinks it's okay to record them the entire time they're in public."
Google recently released a post on how not to be a "glasshole," in which the tech giant mapped out how wearers should act when wearing the Glass in public.
It seems general disdain for Google, its products, and the large number of techies moving into the Bay Area has created a rift between natives and transplants.
Much of San Francisco's local community has lamented the enormous spike in tech employees that are moving into the area and driving up rent, leaving many citizens priced out of their communities.
Slocum wrote on her Facebook page that she's lived in and around the SF Bay her whole life.
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