Mar 25 2008Man Allegedly Kills Himself With A Robot
Allegedly an 81 year-old man in Australia killed himself with a robot that he found the plans to build on the internet. The robot held a .22 pistol and fired when the dude pushed a button or something. Now call me crazy, but I don't think we're getting the full story here.
Evidence: 81 year-olds don't know how to use the internet. If they do it's to sign on to AOL and download a shit-ton of viruses or give their bank account information to a Nigerian exile.
Evidence: No 81 year-old can build a robot. All the geriatrics I know don't do anything but piss themselves and suck at guessing prices on The Price Is Right because their brains are so fucked.
So what can we conclude from this? Government. Conspiracy. Just kidding. But I will tell you what really happened. This man obviously built the robot a long time ago, when he was still reasonably sane (probably in his late 40's - 50's). Then his hearing started to go. Over the years he had to turn the volume on the television up louder and louder in order to watch Matlock and old Westerns. One day the robot got fed up with the noise, ordered a gun online, and blasted him. Case. Closed.
Is This Rubbish Bin a Suicide Machine? [boingboing]
Picture (minus that awesome gun I added) via Emily O on Flickr
Reader Comments
1. Morono - March 25, 2008 3:28 PM
funny post
2. SlowMonkeys - March 25, 2008 5:17 PM
Danger Will Robinson! Danger!!
3. Ackt - March 25, 2008 5:21 PM
He's ripped off Johnny! God, I'm such a geek...
4. Brian - March 25, 2008 5:53 PM
Who kills themselves with a .22?!?!?! Seriously man, have some dignity and use a .45...
5. Derek - March 25, 2008 7:01 PM
who the hell kills themself at 81? thats just being impatient.
6. ugh - March 25, 2008 7:09 PM
"81 year-olds don't know how to use the internet. If they do it's to sign on to AOL and download a shit-ton of viruses or give their bank account information to a Nigerian exile."
I'll be honest... this is the first time I've ever laughed aloud at anything written on here. I'm usually mildly amused by the posts, but man, the AOL thing sent me over the edge. The Geekologie Man deserves a round of applause.
7. cc - March 25, 2008 7:27 PM
*applause*
8. guate6 - March 26, 2008 1:29 AM
writer: good job shopping the picture. Had I not read, I would have thought the gun was part of the original picture.
9. ya cocksuckers - March 26, 2008 3:08 AM
Ha, old people ARE old. And dead.
10. policegirl - March 26, 2008 9:01 AM
LOL!!! The robot in the picture looks like AWESOME-O from South Park.
"Oh my God...you kill that old guy!"
"You bastard!"
11. ello - March 26, 2008 10:09 AM
nicceeeee
12. Scott - March 26, 2008 10:28 AM
Again with the robots that don't have sex!
Now gangbangers have a new excuse in court, blame the robot:
Yea yuroner, it's like dis, I done tolt the robut not ta cap da old dude but he done shizzled the whizzle anyhow! He wuda did me too but I wrastled da gatt outa him hand. My Ho can regrigitate my story.
Shizzled the whizzle? I don't even know what that means....
13. Tara - March 28, 2008 2:12 PM
WHOA this is my friend Stephan's robot from his Halloween party! Small, small world. Also, killer robots will kill us all.