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McDonald's Denies Prof's Claim Staff Attacked Him For Wearing Digital Glasses

Posted by samzenpus on from the grimace-on-grimace dept.

Sparrowvsrevolution writes "In an update to a story posted on Slashdot earlier this week, McDonald's has responded to the claims of Steve Mann, a University of Toronto professor and augmented reality pioneer who says McDonald's staff in Paris assaulted him tried to pull off a computer eyepiece he's worn for decades, then threw him out of the restaurant. McDonald's confirms that Mann was ejected from the premises, but denies that there was a 'physical altercation' with staff or that they destroyed any of his property. That last claim is especially dubious, since Mann has posted photos taken from his eyepiece that show McDonald's staff ripping up a doctor's note that he showed them to explain his need to wear the device. The company still hasn't explained why Mann was removed from the restaurant, but Mann has speculated that it has a policy against recording."

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  1. there are signs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    there are signs on every McDonald's across europe (no pictures/no dogs/no smoking)
    it's pretty obvious this is just a paranoid american, incapable of reading door signs..

    1. Re:there are signs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Lol! faggot can't read that he's Canadian. You're a faggot! Eat that tasty fucking penis. Thrust it into the back of your throat faggot.

    2. Re:there are signs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Suck your dad's cock good motherfucker while I thrust my arm into your mom's salty pussy. Look I can get it all the way up to my elbow too! Look at the blood gushing faggot! Don't forget to lick your father's ballsack - that's where the hidden toy surprise is faggot. Mmmmmmm that ballsack tasty faggot? MMMMMM lick it good faggot! It's ice cold too - warm it up with your tongue! Lick lick lick!

  2. Re:Live in Reality by sabri · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nonsense. I read a number of newspapers and Internet news sites, and this is the first I've heard of it, and like most people, really don't care that much. I frequent Burger King (Home of the Whopper), but I think that realistically, only a very tiny number of McDonald's customers know about this, and of those, few care.

    Your first paragraph is entirely hyperbole.

    So, you read a number of newspapers? Wow, you are one of the few who actually still read tree-based news. Either way, just put "mcdonalds staff assult professor" in Google, and you'll see hundreds of hits.

    This is a PR nightmare for McD. If it were not, Corporate would not have been involved. Stop trolling.

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  3. This guy is a crybaby. by outsider007 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Boo hoo I violated a no-recording policy and was treated badly. Wait till he wanders into a girly bar or a casino with that thing.

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  4. Amen! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is nothing but yet another LIEBERAL attack against the job creators. One has to wonder if Hussein Obama, King of Kenya, is behind this somehow.

  5. Re:An Ridiculous Policy by westlake · · Score: -1, Troll

    MacDonald's hostility to photography, like that of Starbucks, is ridiculous.

    It may not be ridiculous to their patrons.

    The geek's sense of entitlement is bottomless --- if he has the tech he can do whatever he wants with it.

    I don't know how to get the message across that this is a very bad attitude to take and wins him no friends.