Yeah, so somebody found a bag of grenades in a garage, the bomb squad comes in, they shut down Potrero Avenue, they run a robot in there, KTVU starts showing some live video, robot picks up the bag to ferry it out to some kind of disposal unit, and as it’s cruising down the sidewalk, the bag splits and grenades — GRENADES — start spilling out. But the robot doesn’t seem to notice, and ROLLS RIGHT OVER ONE.
KTVU has the whole long video here, but nothing beats the above screenshot.
(Thanks, ZB!)
Previously:
Potrero Not a Good Travel Option This Morning BECAUSE OF GRENADES
“911, please state the nature of your emergency.”
“Yeah, uh…I found a bag of grenades in my garage.”
“We’ll send over a drunk robot right away, sir.”
good one robot says: “good one.”
This. Is. Awesome.
This is why I’m not convinced that robots will ever overtake us humans.
Au contraire, air-breather, that’s just the sort of reckless disregard for self-preservation that’ll ensure our relegation to meat-farm status until some mad h4X0r swallows the red pill.
- a founding member of Cloyne’s SSCRI (Society to Suppress the Coming Robot Invasion)
I saw this live. The anchors started yelling, “No! Don’t run it over!” Oh, Johnny 5.
best post.
I’m betting this isn’t a “robot” so much as a “souped-up RC car.” Whoever was operating it was probably looking only at the camera output and not at what was actually happening.
Rad.
NO DISASSEMBLE!
JOHNNY FIVE ALIVE.
Yeah, I was watching this live. It was pretty hilarious. Guess the grenades weren’t that volatile after all.
i guess that robot found out……..who really was the BOMB….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR3jnW2kcUs
i liked that very much.
I was standing next to the cameraman and the cops (here is my vid http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmania/5414003415/ ) and you couldn’t really tell what happened cuz it was so far away. So those who were watching it live on TV knew what was up before any of the police. Then the cops got some squaky call on their walkie-talkies and everybody moved back. The channel 2 cameraman stayed put though – gotta make a living!