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Man Physically Assaulted At McDonald's For Wearing Digital Eye Glasses
RockoW writes "Steve Mann, a long-time researcher of computer vision systems, (i.e. Augmented reality, Digital Eyeglass) had an incident at a McDonald's in Paris, France. He was assaulted by three men during his visit to get food with his family. They had a problem with his digital eye glasses and tried to take them off his head. 'The eyeglass is permanently attached and does not come off my skull without special tools.' The men also tore up Mann's documentation and a letter from his doctor explaining the device's use. Fortunately, the rough treatment of the device caused it to keep recent images in its memory, instead of quickly overwriting them, so Dr. Mann has pictures of the men who assaulted him."
As Paris has a mixture of many races, it is advisable for all to know the racial background of the attackers, so that, future visitors to Paris would be well advised to avoid any contact with people of that race.
So he provided this information, sat down, and then, out of the blue:
Subsequently another person within McDonalds physically assaulted me,
This report sounds like bad fiction from someone with a gigantic ego and an armchair law degree:
1) He thinks that "a letter from my doctor" is some sort of do-anything-you-want card in private establishments across the world. Hey, look, I have a letter here which looks like it's signed by a doctor, I can come into your establishment wearing whatever I want!
2) He thinks that the correct thing to do when you are "assaulted" is to write a report for the Internet and to supply random pictures, calling lots of people "perpetrators";
3) He says that these "perpetrators" caused the pictures because his system automatically takes pictures when it is knocked to the floor. Unless you're a lawyer, buddy, don't try to lawyer an argument;
4) He claims that he "contacted the embassy, consulate, police, etc. without much luck". In what way did he lack "luck"? I've got several family members living in France and they've never suffered from lack of "luck" when reporting a physical assault. Maybe he doesn't know how to speak French and refused to accept a translator or find his own. Maybe he presented this weird page instead of stating that he had been attacked, answering the inevitable questions concerning what happened, and leaving the law to do its work.
Must be :)
In any case, this guys seems a bit disconnected from reality:
1) He comes from a country (the US) with some of the most strict rules on security at airports and whatnot... I think I hardly ever visited a country is more paranoid (and this is not intended as a slur) and then he goes off and bolts something to his skull that makes him look like the terminator of a Navy seal on a covert op. And you Sir, hold a phD? :)
2) He takes his kids to go and learn "true Parisian French"? Lol...
Looks like a bad case of attention whoaring to me...
Of course, I do, and they've never eaten fast-food (5 years + 2 years) and counting. Fast food is not a replacement for lazy planning/parenting.
So, you have to absolutely conform to YOUR assumptions of what is normal or else you deserve to be assaulted?
Go and die and make the world a better place. What an elitist pig, deserve to be beaten up for daring to go to McDonalds. Well you deserve a whipping for a number in your nickname, couldn't think up an original one?
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How much do you want to bet they were ragheads. They ought to send those muslims and burqa wearing women and their ideas of global islamic conquest back to their own countries where they belong.
He was with his CHILDREN you asshole. His CHILDREN likely wanted McDonalds, and wanted to practice their french with a menu they were familiar with. Children can often be picky about food, and can prefer something they already know.
You're right, he brought children into a McDonalds! He deserves TO BE PHYSICALLY ASSAULTED. (Its not like McDonalds caters to children with playgrounds or anything, oh wait...)
Who the hell do you think you are?
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