You can blame those guys all you want, but they are NOT taking the robot uprising lightly

Ba da ba ba ba, recording it!

every time i hear "forcibily" i think of farking a girl so hard your penis breaks into two
and YOU get charged with the crime

Why?

"The Humanity!

Subsequently another person within McDonalds physically assaulted me, while I was in McDonand's, eating my McDonand's Ranch Wrap that I had just purchased at this McDonald's

Where did this incident take place again? Burger King?

Gotta love Parisians...

On the one hand, sucks for him. On the other hand, blaming McDonald's for it is stupid. Let's blame France instead and boycott everything from that entire country!

Did he order, perhaps, the Royale with Cheese?

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: Subsequently another person within McDonalds physically assaulted me, while I was in McDonand's, eating my McDonand's Ranch Wrap that I had just purchased at this McDonald's

Where did this incident take place again? Burger King?

They beheaded him during the revolution. Try and keep up.

Canadians speak French too. While we're at it, let's blame them too.

FTFA: That a pioneer like Mann would be accosted - in Paris, of all places - is a travesty. That it would happen in that paragon of openness and light, McDonald's is an absolute shame.

Umm... what makes Paris special? They don't take shiat from customers in Paris. They don't care about your permission slips. Why I am supposed to be outraged over what some moron blogger thinks Paris is supposed to be like? There is no hero in this story, I wish the McDonalds and everyone in it could have been destroyed by some crazed french farming anarchist.

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: Subsequently another person within McDonalds physically assaulted me, while I was in McDonand's, eating my McDonand's Ranch Wrap that I had just purchased at this McDonald's

Where did this incident take place again? Burger King?


Lulz.

For some reason, I chuckled over the fact that he felt the need to mention what he ordered.

McDonald's is a paragon of openness and light? Holy f*ck.

Madman drummers bummers: Did he order, perhaps, the Royale with Cheese?

Unless he went to Mitch Hedburg's McDonald's for spaghetti and blankets.

"A doctor's note"? WTF, is this third grade? Like some McDonalds manager in Paris is going to give a shiat about your Canadian doctor's note about your weird camera-glasses.

This is some Consumerist level blogo-whining.

gilatrout: Canadians speak French too. While we're at it, let's blame them too.

As a canadian, most of us don't, so we're not taking the blame for this.

/there are plenty of other things that we can be blamed for I'm sure

People who video blog in public deserve to be assaulted.

This is not snark or sarcasm. Put your God damned cameras down.

This seems to be the most recent photo of his setup.

ModernLuddite: People who video blog in public deserve to be assaulted.

This is not snark or sarcasm. Put your God damned cameras down.

go be a luddite somewhere else. the internet is recording all your activity. you should abstain from it.

I'm lovin it, He deserved a break that day.

This is what happens when you do the low-class tourist thing. Why the fark would you bother with MacDonald's in Paris? Or anywhere for that matter...?

Lucky it wasn't Raven diong the beatdown on his gargoyle ass

Hell of a lot to go through to trick your wife into letting you film her in the bedroom.

at some point most everything will record to "the cloud" so destroying the device will just guarantee you being seen destroying the device.

The doctor's note said "Please excuse my client for looking like a retard, he thinks he's a special snowflake."

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: Subsequently another person within McDonalds physically assaulted me, while I was in McDonand's, eating my McDonand's Ranch Wrap that I had just purchased at this McDonald's

Where did this incident take place again? Burger King?

Not only a McDonald's. One in France.

Way to break the stereotype of Americans staggering around Europe like zombies, moaning, "Big Mac... Parade magazine ...baseball scores... somebody help me..."



"Would you like some Champagne Américain with your Big Mac, monsieur?"

misanthropologist: This is what happens when you do the low-class tourist thing. Why the fark would you bother with MacDonald's in Paris? Or anywhere for that matter...?

but where else can you get a Mayonnaise Crab sandwich other than a McD's in China?



i took this in 2007, so maybe the menu changed.

"Please allow this person to wear his special glasses" - Epstein's Doctor

I don't get it. Why did they do that? They must have had some reason that (at least in their minds) made sense at the time.

Are these devices going to turn him into the first cyborg... with brain cancer?



/hot, like the coils around his brain

The person in the center (Perpetrator 1) handed the materials I had given him to the person to my left (Perpetrator 2), while the three of them reviewed my doctor's letter and the documentation.
After all three of them reviewed this material, and deliberated on it for some time, Perpetrator 2 angrily crumpled and ripped up the letter from my doctor. My other documentation was also destroyed by Perpetrator 1.

/Having seen some of the mouth breathers that work at McDonalds, I'm shocked that they could recognize the alphabet, let alone read a note with (I'm sure) at least college level words and phrases on it.

misanthropologist: This is what happens when you do the low-class tourist thing. Why the fark would you bother with MacDonald's in Paris? Or anywhere for that matter...?

Seriously. 5 million and 1 places to eat in that city and he walks into a McDonald's??
He needs his eyes checked.
And his taste buds.

Just wait until every other Parisien is wearing Le Google Glasses Lunettes.



"Jean-Claude! We need more apple pies..."

What the hell is up with these McDonalds? Who gives a crap if someone photographs their menu or not? Sounds like he should be filing assault charges for what happened to him. It is pretty stupid to have a conspicuous set of glasses / camera bolted to your skull though.

Okay....I must be missing something here....Paris or US, McD's or BK, doctor's note or not....but why the fark did this happen and why are so many people in here acting like the attackers were completely justified? It's a serious question....why does he need to carry a Dr's note to where funky glasses, and why did these guys feel the overwhelming urge to rip them off?

pudding7: "A doctor's note"? WTF, is this third grade? Like some McDonalds manager in Paris is going to give a shiat about your Canadian doctor's note about your weird camera-glasses.

I'm guessing he carries it around more for security reasons like if he needs to go through airport security, customs, interact with the police or if he were in a medical emergency.

ModernLuddite: People who video blog in public deserve to be assaulted.

This is not snark or sarcasm. Put your God damned cameras down.

Agreed.

And furthermore, in France you cannot record private citizens going about their business without their express written consent, whether they are in a private place, such as Mcd's, or out in public.

The hell with him. If he feels he must record everything and everyone let him do it in countries like the UK or the US where citizens do not own the right to their own image.

The Flexecutioner: misanthropologist: This is what happens when you do the low-class tourist thing. Why the fark would you bother with MacDonald's in Paris? Or anywhere for that matter...?

but where else can you get a Mayonnaise Crab sandwich other than a McD's in China?

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i took this in 2007, so maybe the menu changed.

you TOOK that?? meaning you stole it?? suprised the CHinaese didn't kill you in one of those mobile death uniform vehicles

Attention whore got attention, what's the issue?

Jument: I don't get it. Why did they do that? They must have had some reason that (at least in their minds) made sense at the time.

FTA: Apparently McDonald's employees in Paris don't like people taking pictures of their menus and this isn't the first time Parisian Friends-Of-Ronald attacked someone with a camera in their stores.

Maybe the French still believe that whole "taking your picture steals your soul" thing.

what i really am dying to know is if those glasses come with that glorious unibrow, or am I required to harvest one on my own?

Are we supposed to believe that this is a real device?

I'm torn.

On one hand, I want to hate France. Because, well, just look at them.

On the other hand, I want to hate on this douchebag for recording people against their desire and having zero respect for privacy.

Weidbrewer: Okay....I must be missing something here....Paris or US, McD's or BK, doctor's note or not....but why the fark did this happen and why are so many people in here acting like the attackers were completely justified? It's a serious question....why does he need to carry a Dr's note to where funky glasses, and why did these guys feel the overwhelming urge to rip them off?

Carry fancy expensive electronics into a slum and see what happens.

ModernLuddite: People who video blog in public deserve to be assaulted.

This is not snark or sarcasm. Put your God damned cameras down.

You farking luddites are a disgusting plague.

When I read this my first thought was "Holy crap, that kind of technology already exists? Why don't we use that here in the USA?"

... and then I remembered, "Oh yeah, cops."