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To: Sarah Barracuda
It was beheaded, someone went full ISIS on a robot

Ok, I confess: I did it.

My youngest son when he was @ five years old had one of those stupid toys that you had to "feed" and take care of every day via pushing buttons on it when it was "hungry" or something else. It was what I'd call a loud toy. Maybe not "loud" in the sense of high volume, but "loud" in the sense that the noises it made would carry throughout the house. He called this toy "Dinky." Dinky was one of those Tamagotchi kind of toys but in the shape of a robot.

One night the stupid thing was put away in one of the toy boxes in our family room and it started making noise right about 2am.

It woke me up from a sound sleep. Not something I get very often.

So I went downstairs into the family room and proceeded to dump every damn' toybox we had out onto the floor until I found it.

When I found it, I tried everything to shut the stupid thing up. When that failed, I put it in the garage and went back to bed. Problem solved, right?

Dumb move, the garage was under our master bedroom. Back downstairs I went.

I put it back in one of the toyboxes and surrounded it by pillows from our couch, then put the lid back on. Went back upstairs to go to bed. No deal, I could still hear the damn' thing.

I'm not kidding about this: over the course of the next two hours I tried everything to shut this thing up or to find a way to muffle the noise to no avail.

My frustration peaked when I went into the garage, found my hacksaw and cut the damn' thing's head off. Dammit if it still didn't keep going on making noise.

I finally opened the garage door and tossed the stupid thing outside into the snow, closed the garage door and went back to bed. By that time, it was somewhere around 4:30am and there was just no way I was going to get any sleep before I'd have to get up at 5:30am for work.

That night I came home from work to find my youngest son holding Dinky and Dinky's head. The battery on Dinky had finally gone dead so Dinky was finally ... silent!

My wife and two sons looked at me and asked if I knew what happened to "Dinky." I didn't have to say a word when my youngest son said "Dad killed Dinky!"

Yup, I did. All these years later (10+) they won't let me forget it either! :-)

18 posted on 08/03/2015 7:11:59 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: usconservative

"Avenge me!"
23 posted on 08/03/2015 7:18:41 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: usconservative

LOL, you’re a monster!


28 posted on 08/03/2015 7:23:37 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Moving day: June 16th, 2015. LEFT >>>HOPE and CHANGE>>> RIGHT / [DOPE and STRANGE stay home].)
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To: usconservative
Ever seen a robot get revenge ?


39 posted on 08/03/2015 7:39:01 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: usconservative

Tell me what you would’ve done if Dinky had opened his eyes and said => ‘I’m Dinky and I don’t like you very much.’


43 posted on 08/03/2015 7:51:45 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: usconservative

Nice story. Sounds just like the ‘Talking Tina’ Twilight Zone episode starring Telly Savalas......


44 posted on 08/03/2015 7:56:15 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: usconservative

I applaud you for offing Dinky. Unlike HitchBOT he was asking for it.


58 posted on 08/03/2015 10:59:48 PM PDT by Pelham (Deo Vindice)
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To: usconservative

We’ve all had moments like that with the kids’ toys. :-)

You do bring up a good point. The guys who last had HitchBOT couldn’t stand its incessant talking, so they dropped it off there on the street at 3:00 a.m.

Come to think of it, around 20-25 years ago, when I was living in Philly, a store’s burglar alarm went off one night. The alarm was a loud bell on the outside of the store, and that thing rang all night long. My then-spouse and I couldn’t sleep. We kept calling 911, but the operators kept telling us that the owner was refusing to come out at night and turn the alarm off. That alarm drove us both mad. Eventually we went outside to destroy it. We actually picked up a brick and threw it at the alarm several times, unfortunately to no avail.

So, the question is, was HitchBOT talking incessantly while sitting on the street? If so, someone like you or I might’ve gone out there and destroyed it, too. LOL. I didn’t think of that. This HitchBOT story is so much fun. lol


59 posted on 08/03/2015 11:55:40 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: usconservative
LMAO! That sounds kinda like my late dad - he hated the Pillsbury Dough Boy for some reason known only to him. He'd see a commercial and growl, "I'd like to chase that little sonofabitch into a corner and stomp him into a tortilla!"


60 posted on 08/04/2015 12:28:51 AM PDT by Viking2002 (The Avatar is back by popular request.)
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