A tech writer has claimed she was assaulted and robbed by patrons of a bar in San Francisco because they didn’t like her Google Glass.
Sarah Slocum wrote on her Facebook page that she was demonstrating how the wearable computer worked in Molotov’s bar when she was “verbally and physically assaulted.” A thief allegedly grabbed her $1,500 headset and took off. She was able to pursue the attacker and recover the Glass, but not before another person made off with her cellphone and wallet.
Local news outlet KPIX interviewed witnesses who were at the bar when the incident happened. One said that punk rock bar Molotov’s was “not really Google Glass country” and that a “level of tact in that sort of establishment might have behooved her.” Apparently, patrons were not pleased with the possibility that Slocum could have been recording them without their knowledge.
The incident takes place during a time of increasing hostility toward the Bay Area’s tech industry. In recent months, protestors have blockaded Google buses and complained that highly paid tech workers are displacing long term San Francisco residents, driving up the cost of living and escalating class tensions.
- How to Help Victims of the Texas School Shooting
- TIME's 100 Most Influential People of 2022
- What the Buffalo Tragedy Has to Do With the Effort to Overturn Roe
- Column: The U.S. Failed Miserably on COVID-19. Canada Shows It Didn't Have to Be That Way
- N.Y. Will Soon Require Businesses to Post Salaries in Job Listings. Here's What Happened When Colorado Did It
- The 46 Most Anticipated Movies of Summer 2022
- ‘We Are in a Moment of Reckoning.’ Amanda Nguyen on Taking the Fight for Sexual Violence Survivors to the U.N.
