Posted on 06/21/2008 1:26:52 PM PDT by mainestategop
Believe it or not, Rufus Terrill, owner of a downtown Atlanta bar named O'Terrills, has had it with the drug dealers, vandals, and other riff-raff that frequent the area around his business. So, he has done what any sane American man would do in this situation—build a robot out of a meat smoker to lay down the law. The "BumBot," as many of O'Terrills' patrons have dubbed it, is basically a meat smoker mounted onto a three-wheeled scooter. Armaments include a spotlight, loudspeaker, water cannon and an infrared camera. Plus, the whole thing is covered in rubber for protection.
When necessary, Terrill fires up the 400lb device and powers it from afar with a remote control. Using the control and a walkie-talkie, he approaches the vagrants around his bar and a local day care center to inform them via the robot's loudspeaker that they are trespassing on private property. If that doesn't do the trick, he gets rough with the water cannon. Apparently the robot has been so successful that the owner of the day care facility wishes she had three more just like it.
Naturally, some have objected to the use of the robot, saying that it is inhumane—especially towards the homeless. However, Terrill insists that his creation is intended only to fight drug dealers and other criminals. If that is true, the way I see it, if you can successfully fight crime screaming like a lunatic armed only with a squirt gun, more power to you.
When the sun goes down in Rufus Terrill's neighborhood, criminals and vagrants swarm in like Night of the Living Homeless. You remember when we first told you about BumBot, the solution contrived by the former DoD contractor. "If it wasn't chasing criminals, it'd be fighting Osama bin Laden." Granted, it's only equipped with a deBUManizing water jet turret, but his dreams were bigger: "I wanted to put a flamethrower on it, but they wouldn't let me do that." The police shut down his Taser plans too.
They have been talking about it on youtube and the colbert report. Of course as you can imagine the bleeding heart libs have been throwing a hissy over it because it harms the homeless. The fact is that the homeless in Atlanta have been trespassing at his bar and at a local daycare center pleasuring themselves, selling and doing drugs and making a mess. We need more of these in our neighborhood.
I think it’s cool and open back up his tasar plan.
Even a robot has to have protection.
I’ll laugh the night the operator gets mugged and the robot is stolen.
So, you’re on the side of the bums and drug dealers?
You sound like a real fun guy who has taken your share of ridicule over your own failures. That is if you ever bothered to try anything worthwhile in the first place.
No, I’m on the side of not using a silly squirt gun gadget that can be flipped over or picked up and tossed into a garbage dumpster to protect anything.
Batons, mace and dogs do a much better job.
Dr. Phil?
BumBot has no effect on Homeless Humanoid.
Is there a reason you have chosen to be a mocker?
If a squirtgun gets the job done, why not? The affect on the rest of us is much nicer than living in a neighborhood like the one you envision.
-PJ
Yes there is. Bringing a squirt gun to a knife or gun fight is just plain stupid.
Use your brains people. The device has no defense, unless the operator is armed he’s asking for trouble using this at night in homeless areas.
Put some high voltage bug zappers on it and arm the operator and I’m all for it.
The way it is presented the operator deserves what happens to him if he relies solely on its squirt gun for protection.
I don’t think the operator is as dumb as you are being about this.
Radio controls have a reasonable range, and I expect he operates his machine from inside his business, not standing on the sidewalk beside it, as in the photo.
The thing weighs 400 pounds. Not to many people are going to toss it in a dumpster.
You may also have missed the part where the police have already nixed the idea of arming it with a Taser.
I have chosen to radio control humblegunner instead.
I set a small radio on AM Talk, strap it to his head and let him loose outside.
He keeps the streets clean around these parts.
Later on in a other tiny bar I was talking with the owner/bartender and he said it was true. They didn't bother calling the police, the HA were way more effective and cheaper.
I like to go outside! There is colors and smells and sometimes animals.
When necessary, Terrill fires up the 400lb device and powers it from afar with a remote control. Using the control and a walkie-talkie, he approaches the vagrants around his bar and a local day care center
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