robot guard beaten, covered in BBQ sauce -- because he's not meat? hate crime?

[JosephDredd]

http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/12/robot-security-guard-bullied-and-covered-in-barbecue-sauce.html

A robot security guard tasked with “guarding” the streets of San Francisco from the homeless has been put on administrative leave after it was found knocked over, covered in barbecue sauce, and wrapped in a tarp.

However, this is far from the first act of human-on-robot violence in recent Californian history. Earlier this year, a drunk dude was arrested for beating up a security bot in Mountain View. Both victims were Knightscope bots: 300-pound, five-foot-tall machines designed to patrol areas and alert authorities to any “suspicious” activity.

The sauce-covered bot had originally been deployed by the San Francisco SPCA to deter homeless encampments in the city’s Mission neighborhood; however, it was almost immediately met with resistance from locals and government officials alike. In addition to, you know, being designed to terrorize the homeless, some citizens complained that the security bot scared local dogs, and was just generally pretty rude to pedestrians.

Knightscope bots have grown pretty popular in cities with a high minimum wage, as their creepy surveillance services only cost potential renters roughly $6 an hour, and most companies would rather deal with a cheap bot that occasionally commits suicide in public fountains and runs over children than, you know, pay an actual human being a living wage.

 

[spin]

 

[Headkicktoleg]

Hope these pieces of shit get charged with a hate crime.

 

[TheLastSpartan]

Robots are just trying to do their jobs so they could go home to their families. They do not deserve to be wrapped up in tarps and covered in BBQ sauce.

Us organics can be so vile when you think about it...

 

[HockeyBjj]

Welp. Add these things to the list of creepy shit I thought only existed in dystopian novels but apparently was wrong

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

They should not have put barbecue sauce and a tarp on that robot. That was the wrong thing to do.

 

[M3t4tr0n]

Gahdammed roberts taking er jerbs! Go back ta Chinah!

 

[Soul Crusher]

"Androids and liberal sympathizers"



Libs... always ruining everything.

Spoiler

 

[Seano]

I never really paid much attention to how retarded Dredds threads were until he tagged me into one.

 

[Seano]

They should not have put barbecue sauce and a tarp on that robot. That was the wrong thing to do.

Different technology, tough to judge.

 

[hillelslovak87]

#NonLivesMatter

 

[JosephDredd]

I never really paid much attention to how retarded Dredds threads were until he tagged me into one.

I bet you have this same upset feeling when you walk into a library

 

[JosephDredd]

But I did actually mean to start this in the Mayberry. Can a mod move this over there? Let's see if I can message a mod on my phone...

 

[Headkicktoleg]

But I did actually mean to start this in the Mayberry. Can a mod move this over there? Let's see if I can message a mod on my phone...

Seems like a mayberry thread to me

 

[Judge]

http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/12/robot-security-guard-bullied-and-covered-in-barbecue-sauce.html

I say the Ed-209 is made for homeless cleanup

 

[LEGS MAHONEY]

Who hasnt been assaulted and doused with bbq sauce and wrapped in a tarp a couple times in their life?

 

[Boomslang]

I wonder how these robots are “terrorizing” the homeless?

 

[JosephDredd]

I wonder how these robots are “terrorizing” the homeless?

CCTV footage:

I say the Ed-209 is made for homeless cleanup

 

[Naught2Sixty]

What kind of bbq sauce are we talkin'? Spicy? Honey?

 

[j123]

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