Man arrested for alleged domestic violence after Alexa calls the cops

Daily Dot ^ | 07/12/2019 | Mikael Thalen

[TigersEye]

“Honey, let’s watch this one on TCM called There Is A Man In Our House. Omar Sharif is in it.”

ALEXA: “Calling the Sheriff’s Dept.”

[DannyTN]

LOL

It’s not like Alexa was listening, determined there was a fight going on and called the Sheriffs on them.

The idiot directly asked Alexa a question that Alexa misinterpreted as a command. The girlfriend or her daughter could have at any time said, “Alexa call the sheriffs”.

[OrangeHoof]

Alexa! Call Police!

Every breath you take.....Every move you make...

[PapaBear3625]

I’ve seen it firsthand. They are not victims a lot of the time after the FIRST time. They are enablers and it is SICKENING what they let be done to them and MORE sickening what they let be done to their children and let their children see.

There are lots of nice, respectful, steadily employed men out there.

But women like her find them boring and unexciting.

[morphing libertarian]

swat team?

[SendShaqtoIraq]

someone knowing abusers put on a good facade until they reel a woman in would be good

[DesertRhino]

“If he fires one, i’ll fire one.

Fire one!”

[DesertRhino]

“Yeah, I never trust Alexa. Muted her in my bedroom, too creepy.”

You THINK you muted her. But do you really know?

[elcid1970]

“This should be a requirement for ALL Police Officers to have their House Raided by a Swat Team annually unannounced.”

Hey, police officers who carry pepper spray & Tasers are required to be sprayed and tazed first, are they not?

Let them be SWATed then, so they know what it’s like and let that influence their judgement as to when it should be utilized.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

“Did you call the sheriffs?” Barros reportedly questioned.

An Amazon virtual assistant plugged into the home’s landline interpreted the question as a command to call police, Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Felicia Romero told the New York Post.

Not believable. No trigger word, and the Echo is good enough not to interpret questions as commands.

[righttackle44]

So you guys would have liked things better if someone had been beaten to death or shot, rather than the sheriff being called? Something seriously wrong with that.

[sport]

You and me both.

[bgill]

“The unexpected use of this new technology to contact emergency services has possibly helped save a life,”

Sounds more like it caused her to get beaten.

[bgill]

They have “I’ve fallen and can’t get up” devices where you have to push a button before making contact with the service. Doubt they’re listening 24/7.

[bgill]

I caught flak a couple days ago on FR because I didn’t have all the latest appliances and iphones with snooping stuff. No, thanks. I’ll just be un-cool.

[Blue Highway]

Only wish Alexa would call ICE when it recognizes illegals in the home.

[sport]

I do not even have an iphone. I tell people that I am not going to have something that is smarter than I am.

[Justa]

You THINK you muted her. But do you really know?

Well, at least she knows how I feel about her.

[advertising guy]

I got one for Christmas
On December 26th outside, I holler’d “pull”
At that moment Alexa met Mr Winchester

[Oatka]