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Source: San Francisco Chronicle
In what may be the latest backlash against San Franciscos tech industry, a woman was reportedly taunted and robbed this weekend in the citys 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 victims 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/
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,325 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Wholesale gentrification, it's not nearly as egalitarian as it once was.
Never cared for it though I still have to go there from time to time.
When I moved to Manhattan after leaving a job near Jackson Square in SF, I found New Yorkers far more kind and civilized.
pothos
(154 posts)kinda tells you where the city is headed...
LuvNewcastle
(16,844 posts)pothos
(154 posts)i'm not buying the quote "destroying the city." it sounds like she was mugged, plain and simple. someone wanted a high priced electronic device. there's no verification of the quote, and no police report.
edit to clarify: there's plenty of tech backlash here (and rightly so) and I think she made that quote up to make it seem like anti-tech people are willing to resort to violence/physical attacks.
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LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)No police report? You need your report number to get your phone replaced by insurance, and no self respecting tech blogger made it all the way to her coffee break on Monday without knowing a new phone was being overnighted. I call bullshit.
Making shit up for click$ is the blogger's shortcut to viral fame these days.
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)Backwards B girl, too.
Serial GOP: Media loves repeated Republican protester, alleged assault victim
Research September 17, 2004 7:32 PM EDT OLIVER WILLIS
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On September 17, The Drudge Report home page featured a September 16 Associated Press photo of a 3-year-old girl, Sophia Parlock, holding a ripped Bush-Cheney '04 sign and crying as she sits on her father's shoulders. Drudge captioned the photo: "GIRL CRIES AFTER BUSH/CHENEY SIGN RIPPED BY THUGS...". Later that day, The Washington Times published an interview with the Parlock family, whom the paper described as "proudly patriotic."
As The Washington Times reported on September 17:
"They just pounced on us," said Phil Parlock, who took his 11-year-old son, Alex, and 3-year-old daughter, Sophia, to the Democratic rally at Tri-State Airport in Huntington, W.Va.
Sophia became briefly famous yesterday when an Associated Press photo showing her in tears after Democrats tore her sign to pieces was posted on Matt Drudge's Web site, www.drudgereport.com.
"She was crying; they were pushing and shoving her," said Mr. Parlock, a Huntington real estate agent. "She was scared."
Both The Washington Times and Drudge failed to mention that this is the third time the Parlock family has been involved in so-called assaults involving campaign signs.
As noted by the blog Rising Hegemon, Phil Parlock has claimed he was assaulted at a 1996 protest.
The Huntington man said he was knocked to the ground by a Clinton supporter when he tried to display a sign that read "Remember Vince Foster," the deputy White House counsel who committed suicide in a Washington, D.C., park. His death has become the subject of much debate among Clinton opponents.
"It must have been a strict Democrat who did this," Parlock said, feeling the red abrasions on his face. "Everyone with the exception of him was real peaceful about our protest." [Charleston (WV) Daily Mail, August 27, 1996]
In 2000, Parlock found himself in yet another confrontation with Democrats at a campaign event:
Phil Parlock didn't expect to need all 12 of the Bush-Cheney signs he and his son Louis smuggled in their socks and pockets into the rally for Vice President Al Gore.
But each time they raised a sign, someone would grab it out of their hands, the two Huntington residents said. And sometimes it got physical.
"I expected some people to take our signs," said Louis, 12. "But I did not expect people to practically attack us." [Charleston (WV) Daily Mail, October 28, 2000]
The photo of Sophia Parlock was taken by Randy Snyder. Apparently, Snyder is not an Associated Press photographer; he is listed as "chief photographer" on the masthead of The Herald-Dispatch, which bills itself as "the online news authority for Huntington, West Virginia, Southern Ohio and Eastern Kentucky."
The Parlock family has been featured numerous times in the Herald-Dispatch, including in a July 5 article about an Independence Day rally attended by President George W. Bush. The July 5 article also featured photographs by the same Randy Snyder.
On September 17, Parlock was interviewed by nationally syndicated Clear Channel radio host Glenn Beck. Regarding the Parlock family's attendance at a brief appearance by Senator John Edwards in Huntington, W.Va., at which the photo of Sophia Parlock was taken, her father recounted:
PARLOCK: The painter's union guys took a couple signs off of us. ... Um, some women and old ladies did it too. I mean, but you can see, clearly in that picture, he has a piece of the sign in his hand and he is dropping it onto the ground.
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http://mediamatters.org/research/2004/09/17/serial-gop-media-loves-repeated-republican-prot/131878
frylock
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(16,950 posts)seveneyes
(4,631 posts)It sounds like the snatch and grab of the glasses was a setup for the thief and accomplice to purloin her purse, wallet and phone. For thieves like this to be so bold, they obviously are not facing enough prison time for their criminal acts.
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)the USA has more prisoners per capita than any country in history, and California has a three-strikes law (second offence, double the length of the sentence for the first offence; third offence, automatic 25 to life). So obviously the answer is in harsher sentences, because hey, it's working so well!
seveneyes
(4,631 posts)And make those that harm others pay dearly. There is never an excuse to harm innocents intentionally. There are too many people locked up that did nothing to harm anyone, so just let them go free.