[Drew68]

Providing a cathartic release for some pissed-off Eagles fan is the closest it has ever come to usefulness.

LMFAO! Did a FReeper write this?

[tumblindice]

"our guileless, simpleton neighbors to the north" "simpleton"? What's that supposed to mean?

[bk1000]

Still vandalism. Not cool.

[Drew68]

HitchBOT in happier days:

HitchBOT in Philly:

[Sarah Barracuda]

It was beheaded, someone went full ISIS on a robot

[usconservative]

Then it came to the United States, where it caught a richly deserved beating, just like Canada’s hockey teams do when they come here. I do not know what motivated this beating; if it was revulsion at the very notion of a smarmy Canuck trash can with the temerity to expect favors, that’s reason aplenty.

ROFL!!!! Funniest thing I've read all day!

[patriot08]

Wow..that was a bitter piece. Lighten up. It was all just in fun.

[DoughtyOne]

This box is not a robot. If I left it on the curb, it would not be a hitchhiking robot; it would be litter.

Then it came to the United States, where it caught a richly deserved beating, just like Canada’s hockey teams do when they come here. I do not know what motivated this beating

The writer tells us what the HitchBOT wasn't, then moves on to tell us it received a beating it richly deserved.

Perhaps I should write some words on what the destroyer deserved. Why bother?

The HitchBOT may not have been a break-through. I don't really care. It was an interesting entity, which was used for an interesting purpose.

What I don't understand, is all the animosity over an inanimate object, and why someone felt the need to destroy what was clearly not their own property.

Seems to me there was a human defect much more pronounced that any the HitchBOT exhibited.

[Yardstick]

This piece is grumpy, insulting, and hilarious. I got about three very solid chuckles out of it.

[Tired of Taxes]

LOL. Very funny.

HitchBot is like a combination of the game Flat Stanley and the “quests” people take stuffed animals and yard ornaments on.

And now someone went and ruined the game.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

It was someone else’s property and harmless. Destroying it was a senseless act of vandalism and does not make the US look good.

[BenLurkin]

But...but....

“HitchBOT’s murder thought to be captured in surveillance footage”

http://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/hitchbot-surveillance-video-destroyed-philadelphia-jesse-wellens-1.3178244

[corlorde]

Great piece

[JoeProBono]

[RetiredTexasVet]

Saw it on the evening news .... looked like a camera caught one of the Sons of O using kickboxing on the thing... probably just giving it a little “Love from the City of Brotherly Love”.

[RIghtwardHo]

Some people will go out of their way to politicize EVERYTHING. It makes those things that should be politicized obscured by the manure.

This was a crime. I don’t care who it belonged to.

Sometimes I wonder if we are becoming LibTards.

[omni-scientist]

Thank goodness the HitchBot’s name wasn’t CECIL.

[BenLurkin]

All this for a cheap “robot” — what about Cecil the Lion?

[Junior_G]

I have no idea what story the author is even referring to, but this is one of the most well-written articles I’ve ever read.

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