The Denver police were on high alert thanks to a tiny robot that appeared in the city out of nowhere.
When the upcoming robot invasion is spoken of in popular media, it usually involves huge machines equipped with missiles and lasers that we must fight off with mechs of our own. An incident in Denver last week may have clued in the world's population to look out for something less noticeable. Denver police were forced to cordon off an area of the city after a robot was found hanging around the base of a pillar acting mysteriously.
Police were alerted by a concerned citizen that noticed the robot was actually cemented into the pillar and not just sitting upon it. The 8-inch-tall robot, supposedly a toy, didn't indicate any sinister motives, but the situation was taken seriously regardless.
A 5-block stretch of the street where the robot was found was closed until police could resolve the situation, and pedestrians were kept 100 yards away. The bomb squad was sent in to negotiate with the robot, but they didn't want to take any chances. It couldn't be determined if the robot was hostile or not, so police killed the robot with a detonation to ensure that it wouldn't be a danger to humanity.
Denver Police Spokesman Matt Murray said that the robot was "strange enough" to warrant the use of the bomb squad, especially because it was cemented into the pillar. In the end, the robot was harmless and just an innocent bystander that became a victim of the ongoing prejudice between humans and robots.
Police are not currently sure how or why the robot got there. Did anybody try just asking it nicely? We can only hope this robot's big brother doesn't come knocking on the planet anytime soon.
Update: The invader appears to be RAD 2.0, a robot that will even do your laundry. I think we can all be glad this menace has been destroyed. Thanks for pointing that out Sir Kemper!
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Man, US police is really paranoid. Coming from a country in which bomb squads sometimes have to detonate... you know, actual *bombs*, this feels like overkill.
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I'll volunteer! I can be angsty, emo, cold and quiet, whatever you want. I'll even flip chairs and choke a female friend randomly!
Shows you the level of moronic paranoia in America today. First the Adult Swim PR problems with a little neon Err sign, and now this. I wouldn't be surprised at all to find out that this robot was just a plushie.
Good to know that the people being paid with our tax dollars are completely out of the loop with modern society and have no common sense.
Xzi: Shows you the level of moronic paranoia in America today. First the Adult Swim PR problems with a little neon Err sign, and now this. I wouldn't be surprised at all to find out that this robot was just a plushie.
Good to know that the people being paid with our tax dollars are completely out of the loop with modern society and have no common sense.
As I said, disguising explosives as toys and other foreign objects is an unfortunately real occurrence. The idea behind that of course being that you can get someone (apparently normally a child) to pick it up so you can kill them with it. I wouldn't say it's being 'out of the loop' or 'paranoid' so much as 'knowing a fuck of a lot more about bombing than people who only ever see videogame violence'.
I thought this article was a joke at first but.. what? And what removes the logic that some random guy/gal could come by and plant it there for teh lulz?
Is this actually a joke? Because I don't think even americans would act like that (no offense guys). But that is slightly crazy. Why not even just try and look it up online to see if it was a toy? Pretty damn funny though.
Now they might have taken it a bit too far what with cordoning the whole area off and getting a bomb squad, but I do think othat it was good that they acted with suspicion. It isn't normal for a small toy robot to be cemented into the pillar. I'm glad to see that they at least realized that this could have been a clever way to hide a bomb.
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So to fight the robots we're going to use a giant robot? Why does that seem like a bad idea to me?
Generic Gamer: As I said, disguising explosives as toys and other foreign objects is an unfortunately real occurrence. The idea behind that of course being that you can get someone (apparently normally a child) to pick it up you can kill them with it.
Then we must ban childhood! If we don't ban children, and toys, and childhood, and video game systems, and netbooks and LCD televisions, and WE MUST BAN VIOLENCE! otherwise the terrorists have won!
I am, of course, being completely facetious. I respect the fact that terrorists will go to such lows as to try anything to rack up a body count, but on the other end of the spectrum we have the ultra-right-wing conservatives who would rather see us lose all liberties and freedom than 'lose' a war on terrorism.
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I'll volunteer! I can be angsty, emo, cold and quiet, whatever you want. I'll even flip chairs and choke a female friend randomly!
Will you do inappropriate things while a female friend is in a coma? If so, you're our man.
Am I really the first to comment on the fact that A TOY ROBOT WAS CEMENTED TO THE PILLAR!? Like, how long was it there? No one noticed until recently? WTF?
Generic Gamer: As I said, disguising explosives as toys and other foreign objects is an unfortunately real occurrence. The idea behind that of course being that you can get someone (apparently normally a child) to pick it up you can kill them with it.
Then we must ban childhood! If we don't ban children, and toys, and childhood, and video game systems, and netbooks and LCD televisions, and WE MUST BAN VIOLENCE! otherwise the terrorists have won!
I am, of course, being completely facetious. I respect the fact that terrorists will go to such lows as to try anything to rack up a body count, but on the other end of the spectrum we have the ultra-right-wing conservatives who would rather see us lose all liberties and freedom than 'lose' a war on terrorism.
...what the fuck are you talking about?
The common opinion here is roughly "lolol, silly America, toys aren't bombs" but on several occasions bombs have been disguised as toys. Since bombs are not normally manufactured by ACME I sincerely doubt anyone here has more real experience of bombs than a bomb squad. I don't see any 'freedoms' being threatened by the almost Seussian Rightwing Arglebargle that people roll out on this website to try and make themselves seem profound. The only freedom I can see being lost is the freedom to cement objects to public property.
Xzi: Shows you the level of moronic paranoia in America today. First the Adult Swim PR problems with a little neon Err sign, and now this. I wouldn't be surprised at all to find out that this robot was just a plushie.
Good to know that the people being paid with our tax dollars are completely out of the loop with modern society and have no common sense.
As I said, disguising explosives as toys and other foreign objects is an unfortunately real occurrence. The idea behind that of course being that you can get someone (apparently normally a child) to pick it up so you can kill them with it. I wouldn't say it's being 'out of the loop' or 'paranoid' so much as 'knowing a fuck of a lot more about bombing than people who only ever see videogame violence'.
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I'll volunteer! I can be angsty, emo, cold and quiet, whatever you want. I'll even flip chairs and choke a female friend randomly!
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Miniature Robot Invader Threatens Denver
The Denver police were on high alert thanks to a tiny robot that appeared in the city out of nowhere.
When the upcoming robot invasion is spoken of in popular media, it usually involves huge machines equipped with missiles and lasers that we must fight off with mechs of our own. An incident in Denver last week may have clued in the world's population to look out for something less noticeable. Denver police were forced to cordon off an area of the city after a robot was found hanging around the base of a pillar acting mysteriously.
Police were alerted by a concerned citizen that noticed the robot was actually cemented into the pillar and not just sitting upon it. The 8-inch-tall robot, supposedly a toy, didn't indicate any sinister motives, but the situation was taken seriously regardless.
A 5-block stretch of the street where the robot was found was closed until police could resolve the situation, and pedestrians were kept 100 yards away. The bomb squad was sent in to negotiate with the robot, but they didn't want to take any chances. It couldn't be determined if the robot was hostile or not, so police killed the robot with a detonation to ensure that it wouldn't be a danger to humanity.
Denver Police Spokesman Matt Murray said that the robot was "strange enough" to warrant the use of the bomb squad, especially because it was cemented into the pillar. In the end, the robot was harmless and just an innocent bystander that became a victim of the ongoing prejudice between humans and robots.
Police are not currently sure how or why the robot got there. Did anybody try just asking it nicely? We can only hope this robot's big brother doesn't come knocking on the planet anytime soon.
Update: The invader appears to be RAD 2.0, a robot that will even do your laundry. I think we can all be glad this menace has been destroyed. Thanks for pointing that out Sir Kemper!
Source: Denver Post, via Blastr
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