Seattle becomes first to ban (Google Glass)

Says "it is because it's kind of a personal place that public go" Will other businesses follow?

Google Glass won't be accessible to clients for months, but there is at least one Seattle bar where the eye wear will not be salutation.

The 5 tip, a person described dive bar in Seattle's Belltown area, posted a notice to its Facebook page this week influential Glass Explorers looking to take a pint that they will require to get rid of their $1,500 glasses. The story was noted today on GeekWire.

"For the proof, The 5 tip is the first Seattle business to forbid in advance Google Glasses," the post reads. "And ass kickings will be encouraged for violators."

"I'm a consideration leader," deadpanned Dave Meinert, the bar's holder, in an interview on Seattle's KIRO-FM. "Primary you have to appreciate the culture of the 5 Point, which is a sometimes sleazy, maybe notorious place. Public want to go there and be not known...and definitely don't want to be clandestinely filmed or videotaped and immediately put on the Internet."

Meinert admitted he was having a bit of fun: "Part of this is a joke, to be funny on Facebook, and get reaction."

Seattle is a famously tech savvy town and the 5 Point sits shut to a new Amazon campus. But it's that similar tech savvy that's most important business owners like Meinert to think the implications of having clients with face mounted cameras, snapping pictures of a varied and sometimes under the influence clientele.

Update is: Google representative responds: "It is still very early days for Glass, as well as we wait for that as with other fresh technologies, such as cell phones, behaviors and common norms will develop above time."