Setting fire to a robot butler box (aka marketing trash)

Yesterday these robot butler boxes showed up all over town. And I guess they turned out to be an elaborate marketing scheme (wherein a marketing company leaves trash on a sidewalk).

Last night, somebody went pyro on them:

[Photos by open mouth, via thong2000]

8 Responses to “Setting fire to a robot butler box (aka marketing trash)”

  1. Elizabeth says:

    I hope the marketing geniuses behind this are fined $1k per box for littering.

  2. Pacific Standard Simon says:

    “Are ‘rad’ sour-pusses driving Latino recyclers out of The Mission by burning their cardboard?”

    Fixed that title for ya.

  3. pastido says:

    Good. Fuck em.

  4. blue says:

    You burned a banksy BOX!

  5. dahggydahg says:

    Surely that could have been used as a bed for a night or two. Why the burn, man?

  6. scum says:

    Because arson is so cutting edge.