Friendly hitchhiking robot is found DECAPITATED in Philadelphia

Daily Mail ^ | 2 August 2015 | Regina F. Graham

[Malone LaVeigh]

Only two weeks into an attempt to travel across the United States, the friendly hitchhiking robot's journey has ended in Philadelphia after being beaten to a pulp.

HitchBOT, who was created by a team of communication researchers from Ontario, was found damaged beyond repair early Saturday in the city of brotherly love.

[Gaffer]

Granted. However you perhaps confused me with a ‘robot’ aficionado. Hitchhiking implies to me some sort of action to attract drivers other than ‘sound.’

[dfwgator]

Kind of sounds like what we used to do with my Son with “Flat Stanley”, chances for cute Photo-Ops from around the country.

[Gaffer]

Like that traveling Gnome I guess.

[exit82]

The torso is a white 5 gallon paint bucket.

White privilege was his downfall.

[conservativeimage]

I’m agreeing with you. The Daily Mail/Canadians called it a robot but it’s just a voice-in-the-box.

[Gaffer]

Okay. Sorry....I think what I’d have done is held the sucker hostage. Make them pay a ransom in bitcoins.

[Slings and Arrows]

Sounds like Philly.

[TexasRepublic]

So, what sociological conclusions can we draw from this experiment? A dorky-looking robot got trashed in the USA, but not Canada or Europe. No surprise, really.

The next experiment ought to be a Terminator robot, dropped into Afghanistan.

[Army Air Corps]

I think that book was made into a short subject film.

[Biggirl]

Should have stayed out of the cities, period!

[kvanbrunt2]

not true. PA is “shall issue” and plenty of law abiding people in philly are packing. Also open carry except you will get hassled.

[a fool in paradise]

[conservativeimage]

I would get it stuck in a self reference paradox and admit that it’s own existence is unethical.