God creates man, man creates vigilante robots

March 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Vigilante Robot on the swarm

Yeah, this is a REAL good idea….

Boingboing writes about Rufus Terrill from Atlanta, who has apparently built his own robot to “battle drug dealers”:

Late at night several times a week, Terrill powers up the 4-foot-tall, 300 pound device and reaches for a remote control packed with two joysticks and various knobs and switches. Standing on a nearby corner, he maneuvers the machine down the block, often to a daycare center where it accosts what Terrill says are drug dealers, vagrants and others who shouldn’t be there.

He flashes the robot’s spotlight and grabs a walkie-talkie, which he uses to boom his disembodied voice over the robot’s sound system.

“I tell them they are trespassing, it’s private property, and they have to leave,” he said. “They throw bottles and cans at it. That’s when I shoot the water cannon. They just scatter like roaches.”

Don’t know what to say about this one. Just that this is something only an American could come up with. Read article for pics & movie.