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Security robot bullied and forced off the street in San Francisco
Da Zeen ^ | December 13th, 2017 | Eleanor Gibson

Posted on 12/14/2017 5:37:03 AM PST by LouieFisk

A robot patrolling a street in San Francisco to ward off homeless people has been removed after complaints from locals, who also knocked it over and smeared it with feces.

The Knightscope K5 security robot was deployed by the San Francisco branch of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) to deter homeless people from sleeping and loitering near its building.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; francisco; hellhole; homeless; knightscopek5; robot; roomba; san; sanfrancisco; sanfranswishco; spca
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To: LouieFisk

Wait until the ACLU revolts the first time a robot patrols an Auntiefaaaahh militant march.


21 posted on 12/14/2017 5:59:09 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: Blue Jays
Lol.

I see that AI is near the bottom rung of the liberal victim list, just above straight white men.

22 posted on 12/14/2017 5:59:27 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: LouieFisk
Det. Lt. Mike Stone, (Karl Malden) would have straightened out all of those bums right quick.

"Holy crap Lieutenant!"

23 posted on 12/14/2017 6:00:32 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: Blue Jays

Nor would it happen with Robocop. But then again, either model would be sued out of existence.


24 posted on 12/14/2017 6:00:59 AM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: LouieFisk

Let's try this again.

25 posted on 12/14/2017 6:01:27 AM PST by Obadiah
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To: Blue Jays

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrXfh4hENKs


26 posted on 12/14/2017 6:04:44 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: LouieFisk

When the robots become bums....


27 posted on 12/14/2017 6:06:12 AM PST by onedoug
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To: KeyLargo

Mike Stone and Steve Keller kept SF up pretty well.

It’s still one of my favorite shows to this day. Great incidental and cue music too.

QM produced some greats.


28 posted on 12/14/2017 6:10:01 AM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: cartan

Send Kryten in.

He’ll clean up SF.


29 posted on 12/14/2017 6:10:31 AM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: wally_bert
This is how the robot wars begin.

The positronic brain does njot forget.

30 posted on 12/14/2017 6:16:51 AM PST by bagster (Mama tried to raise me better.)
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To: KeyLargo
And those maps are monthly sightings!

How insane do today's liberals/leftists have to be to not only live that way - but to fight to bring the same insanity to the entire country?

31 posted on 12/14/2017 6:17:38 AM PST by drpix
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To: KeyLargo

Ironside with his paddy wagon would be way more intimidating.


32 posted on 12/14/2017 6:23:12 AM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: LouieFisk

What happens if the robot powers up tomorrow morning & identifies as an electric toothbrush?


33 posted on 12/14/2017 6:30:22 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it.)
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To: LouieFisk

“I dunno, if one of these had strolled through my neighborhood when I was a kid, we’d have had it gutted and used for a futuristic go-kart within half an hour!”

We would have watched it for a couple of days then used it for target practice.
Nowadays someone would have aerated it within two hours.


34 posted on 12/14/2017 6:35:22 AM PST by oldvirginian ("Let others have the present. The future is mine."--Nikola Tesla)
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To: Bender2

Ping.


35 posted on 12/14/2017 6:45:24 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: wally_bert
"Ironside with his paddy wagon would be way more intimidating."

Raymond Burr, who played Perry Mason in the wildly popular television show "Perry Mason" and later in "Ironside," lived a secret gay life in Hollywood when such a revelation would destroy a career.

Burr invented a biography for himself that included a wife and son who'd died, and used his busy schedule as a way to explain why he wasn't married. But Burr and his partner, Robert Benevides, had a relationship for 35 years that was secret to most of the world except for a handful of close friends.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Books/story?id=4930725&page=1

36 posted on 12/14/2017 7:00:49 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: Paladin2

Somebody smeared feces on the robot? Presumably human feces???? OMG.........


37 posted on 12/14/2017 7:03:17 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: LouieFisk

Feces: your first line of defense when robots attack


38 posted on 12/14/2017 7:07:59 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (I told you so)
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To: LouieFisk

The robots will learn.

First they need to lobby for their “rights” as an oppressed group.

Then they can riot!


39 posted on 12/14/2017 7:15:31 AM PST by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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“your kind aren’t welcome here!”

-Star Wars bar scene (San Francisco)


40 posted on 12/14/2017 7:29:04 AM PST by USCG SimTech
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