Journalist: I was assaulted on street for wearing Google Glass

There's a temptation to believe that San Francisco is in the middle of severe social tensions around tech.

When Yahoo buses are vomited upon and Google lawyers are the targets of a protest for allegedly evicting teachers from their homes, you'd conceive that things can only get worse. And then there's Google Glass.

Already the subject of an altercation in a San Francisco bar, now it appears to have incited violence on the street. Business Insider journalist Kyle Russell says he was walking in the city's Mission District when someone came toward him, put his hand in his face, yelled "Glass!" and ripped the device off.