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Avram Piltch , Laptop

Its just another one of those Cyborg said, McDonalds said disagreements.

After Human Cyborg Steve Mann published a blog post on Monday saying he wasassaulted by employees at a Paris McDonaldsearlier this month, the fast food chainstruck back on Wednesday, saying its own investigation had determined that staffers did ask him to leave but that their interaction with Dr. Mann was polite and did not involve a physical altercation. However, after we wrote Mann and asked for his reaction, he sent us a previously-unpublished photo that appears to show a McDonalds employee grabbing his glasses.

The shot above comes directly from Manns EyeTap Glass headset, which he was wearing when a McDonalds employee he calls Perpetrator 1 allegedly tried to rip it off his face. The employee and his coworkers were apparently trying to enforce that particular restaurants strict no-photo policy and were concerned that Manns headset was shooting pictures or video. According to Mann, the EyeTap Glass does indeed capture images of everything the wearer sees in real-time, but does not permanently store them by default. However, when the device was damaged, it retained images from the incident, including this one.

Were not forensic photography experts, but this new image certainly makes it look like the McDonalds staffer in question has, at the very least, made physical contact with Dr. Manns glasses. Since we dont have video, we have no way to determine from the photo alone whether he brushed up against the glasses accidentally or was actively trying to pull them off of the professors head. In addition to this grabbing photo, Mann directed our attention to a different picture he had posted where another McDonalds employee appears to be tearing up a piece of paper, which he says is the doctors note he showed them to explain why he needs to wear this non-removable headset.

Judge for yourself, he told us. Plus they cant deny tearing up the letter from my doctor, so that also would seem to suggest ill intent, e.g. that in itself is also willful damage to customers property.

As of 1 a.m. ET, the new photo of the employee allegedly grabbing the glasses had also been added toManns original blog post.

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Countering McDonald’s denial, cyborg posts new photo of alleged assault