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ATLANTA - Cars passing O'Terrill's pub screech to a halt at the sight of a 136 kilogram, waist-high robot marked "SECURITY" rolling through downtown long after dark.
The regulars hardly glance outside. They've seen bar owner Rufus Terrill's invention on patrol before - its bright red lights and even brighter spot light blazing, infrared video camera filming and water cannon at the ready in the spinning turret on top.
"You're trespassing. That's private property," Terrill scolds an older man through the robot's loudspeaker. The man is sitting at the edge of the driveway to a child care centre down the street. "Go on."
I want a Bum Bot! Not to use for harassing the homeless... oh no, I would use it to cruise around the trendy parts of Downtown, using it's water cannon to spray annoying, drunk tweenagers who shriek "Whooooo" at the top of their lungs while having it chant- "Ex-Ter-Min-Ate!" through its loudspeaker system. Of course it would be fun to chase schoolchildren, squirrels and joggers around mercilessly... but mainly I want to use it to harass the amateur drunks of Buckhead. Maybe I could call it "Drunk Bot" instead.
Another option would be to change out the water cannon for teargas, outfit it with some form of taser and then build a small army of them to send to protests where police will be present. If there were enough of us with bum bots then we could roll them down the streets, using the intercom to chant "NO BLOOD FOR OIL" (or whatever) and douse riot police with mace and give them non-lethal jolts of electricity.
I kid, I kid the riot police... but mainly, I just want a Baby Dalek Bum Bot of my own right now!
ltmurnau for tickling the mad scientist in me!Robotic vigilante hits street as homemade 'Bum Bot' patrols in Atlanta
ATLANTA - Cars passing O'Terrill's pub screech to a halt at the sight of a 136 kilogram, waist-high robot marked "SECURITY" rolling through downtown long after dark.
The regulars hardly glance outside. They've seen bar owner Rufus Terrill's invention on patrol before - its bright red lights and even brighter spot light blazing, infrared video camera filming and water cannon at the ready in the spinning turret on top.
"You're trespassing. That's private property," Terrill scolds an older man through the robot's loudspeaker. The man is sitting at the edge of the driveway to a child care centre down the street. "Go on."
I want a Bum Bot! Not to use for harassing the homeless... oh no, I would use it to cruise around the trendy parts of Downtown, using it's water cannon to spray annoying, drunk tweenagers who shriek "Whooooo" at the top of their lungs while having it chant- "Ex-Ter-Min-Ate!" through its loudspeaker system. Of course it would be fun to chase schoolchildren, squirrels and joggers around mercilessly... but mainly I want to use it to harass the amateur drunks of Buckhead. Maybe I could call it "Drunk Bot" instead.
Another option would be to change out the water cannon for teargas, outfit it with some form of taser and then build a small army of them to send to protests where police will be present. If there were enough of us with bum bots then we could roll them down the streets, using the intercom to chant "NO BLOOD FOR OIL" (or whatever) and douse riot police with mace and give them non-lethal jolts of electricity.
I kid, I kid the riot police... but mainly, I just want a Baby Dalek Bum Bot of my own right now!