Motorised meat-smoker droid vigilante patrols Atlanta
"A former US Marine bar owner has built a home-made robot which patrols the streets of Atlanta rousting winos and vagrants. The so-called 'Bum Bot' is equipped with a panoply of glaring lights, an infrared camera, and a water cannon in a 'spinning turret'.
AP reports that the 300lb motorised vigilante droid is the brainchild of Rufus Terrill, owner of O'Terrill's Irish Pub. It appears that the irascible 57-year-old publican, irritated by local drug users and other ne'er-do-wells, initially handled matters face-to-face tooled up with an assault rifle.
'They're out here to get money for drugs, to get money from breaking into cars,' he told AP. 'These are bad guys.'
Namby-pamby local lawmen objected to this, however, and Terrill was compelled to leave his iron at home. This made encounters unacceptably dangerous, so Terrill got to work A-Team style and fashioned the Bum Bot out of a three-wheel scooter, home alarm components and other odds and ends including a 'home meat smoker'."
"A former US Marine bar owner has built a home-made robot which patrols the streets of Atlanta rousting winos and vagrants. The so-called 'Bum Bot' is equipped with a panoply of glaring lights, an infrared camera, and a water cannon in a 'spinning turret'.
AP reports that the 300lb motorised vigilante droid is the brainchild of Rufus Terrill, owner of O'Terrill's Irish Pub. It appears that the irascible 57-year-old publican, irritated by local drug users and other ne'er-do-wells, initially handled matters face-to-face tooled up with an assault rifle.
'They're out here to get money for drugs, to get money from breaking into cars,' he told AP. 'These are bad guys.'
Namby-pamby local lawmen objected to this, however, and Terrill was compelled to leave his iron at home. This made encounters unacceptably dangerous, so Terrill got to work A-Team style and fashioned the Bum Bot out of a three-wheel scooter, home alarm components and other odds and ends including a 'home meat smoker'."
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