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by Merem 3557 days ago
I actually did partially witness something like that back in 2007. We were a group of students and visiting a historic site. One girl (probably) started recording while eventually, a rather fat man (which wasn't that common here) walked past her. She was talking with her friend, found something amusing and the man jumped to the conclusion that she had filmed him and laughed about his weight. So he walked up to here and slapped her phone out of her hands which fell to the ground and broke. In the end, he walked away while she remained on the spot, crying.

What I want to say, this actually does happen...though, probably more back in the day since nowadays, pretty much everyone has their phone out all the time. And you can't slap that many phones out of people's hands.

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There's always the potential for misunderstanding. The world's a wide place, and there'll always be the exception that proves the rule. We'll get early stories about situations that blow up bigger than they should've, and then things will settle into a new normal (whatever that turns out to mean).