Sep 28 2010Cheapskate!: Gimme, The Panhandling Robot
Gimme is a panhandling robot designed and built by artist Chris Eckert. Basically he follows you around with that googly eye of his and shakes his money-cup at you until you 1) make a donation or 2) kick him over, douse him in gasoline and watch that ass burn its way back to Satan. You know, or you could ignore him. But like Edmund Burke once said, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." So I ask, will you do nothing and let evil triumph? Because I'd like to think you'd pick up a pipe and beat the metallic f*** out of this dirtbag. Come on -- he's not even poor, he just panhandles because he's too lazy to get a job! Oh -- I feel a little jingle coming on!
Gimme a break,Gimme a break,
Break me off his eyeball and kick 'em down the stairs!
Thank you, thank you. If you liked what you heard feel free to leave a donation in the hat. What? I'M A STREET PERFORMER, THERE'S A DIFFERENCE!
Hit the jump for a couple more shots and a video of the beggar in action.
Thanks to Billy J (who's not my lover) and Travis, who don't panhandle, pans handle them. I don't even know what that means but if you're cooking something make me one.
Reader Comments
1. floop - September 28, 2010 7:30 PM
first
2. Dy7lan - September 28, 2010 7:36 PM
Congrats... you have reached the greatest moment in your life @1.
3. Deben - September 28, 2010 7:44 PM
I always like coming in Third myself
4. quaddmgtech - September 28, 2010 7:45 PM
@3 Just like your mom!
5. zhaetur - September 28, 2010 8:15 PM
Gw writer your singing prowess never ceases to amaze
6. zhaetur - September 28, 2010 8:16 PM
and i just realized how little sense that makes
7. McFeely Smackup - September 28, 2010 8:33 PM
First! Ha, suck it tards!!
8. ElBurritoGrande - September 28, 2010 8:45 PM
Neat, but not original, near as cute, or helpless as Tweenbots.
http://tweenbots.com/
9. Cutler R. - September 28, 2010 10:33 PM
every time i watch star wars now im gonna picture this thing when i see that shoeboxed size droid on the death star.
10. Otto - September 28, 2010 11:02 PM
Sounds like it's following me around offering me change.
Thank you change offering robot! I will indeed take your change! Have a nice day.
11. naas (TRO) - September 28, 2010 11:31 PM
creepy eye is creeepy
12. Lachlan - September 29, 2010 12:42 AM
awww, that's cute :-3
13. Richard McBeef - September 29, 2010 12:55 AM
is this steampunk? needs more cogs and a monoggle.
14. ricky - September 29, 2010 1:03 AM
chicken pot, chicken pot, chicken pot pie.....
15. :::Nicktendo - September 29, 2010 1:20 AM
@14
My 3 favorite things.
16. mr. cheaper than this robot - September 29, 2010 5:04 AM
so there’s better way than begging to get stuff for instance for a check-up and some free food say these 3 little words (can build C4) and whala the FBI comes pick you up put a super cool black bag over your head, takes you to unknown secret location and th…. bzzzzzzzzz................. Holly sh@t that was weird just blanked out there for a second I think I was busy talking about the rectal probe bzzzzzzzzzz . . . . . . Wow it happened again?!?!?! Oh wait got to go my mom wants her vibra - - - egg mixer back wow good save.
17. mr. cheaper than this robot - September 29, 2010 5:06 AM
so there’s better way than begging to get stuff for instance for a check-up and some free food say these 3 little words (can build C4) and whala the FBI comes pick you up put a super cool black bag over your head, takes you to unknown secret location and th…. bzzzzzzzzz................. Holly sh@t that was weird just blanked out there for a second I think I was busy talking about the rectal probe bzzzzzzzzzz . . . . . . Wow it happened again?!?!?! Oh wait got to go my mom wants her vibra - - - egg mixer back wow good save.
18. Dinosaur post apocalypse - September 29, 2010 5:25 AM
holy crap I just figured it out gw you might not like it, dinosaurs went extinct because robots went back in time and killed them all to stop gw from riding one into battle against them I built a time machine and got photographic evidence but each time I come back they steal the camera the day before it ever happened.
19. Leftover roasted firstard - September 29, 2010 7:45 AM
I see being poor makes its brown eye blue...
20. Dinosaursfuckyeah - September 29, 2010 8:34 AM
That robot is rude, if someone just gave him a coin, he better curtsy or something
21. 80yr old anti robot christ - September 29, 2010 9:24 AM
if it wants to act like a bum, we should treat it like a bum. . . speaking of which 1st.ly. anybody know how to get rid of that dead bum smell off the hood of your car and 2ndly. Do you think if we drop a dollar between two of these metallic f#cktards they would beat each other to death?
22. in my game fits I get the remotes completly up my ass - September 29, 2010 9:40 AM
so do you think it buys liqueur oil with the loot it makes ?
23. Closet Nerd (◕_◕)┌∩┐my fingers smell like your mom........ just sayin - September 29, 2010 10:05 AM
(on a t-shirt) "Yes, I have plenty of change you homeless piece of shit. Thanks for asking"
...... just sayin
http://www.tshirthell.com/funny-shirts-stock/yes-i-have-plenty-of-change-you-homeless-piece-of-shit/?xid=563676b0-2a8e-e8d4-91ff-84f11d53d4f0
24. Fark - September 29, 2010 10:32 AM
Great, GW. Now I have that damn jingle stuck in my head.
25. Dy7lan - September 29, 2010 12:06 PM
HAHAHA, it's a hobo Wall-E!!!
26. Shelbon - September 29, 2010 1:20 PM
The 1:1 scale of the starship enterprise was more interesting than this
27. ciao - pew pew pew - September 29, 2010 2:01 PM
future robot hobos ;D
28. wakwakawakawaka C- - - - - - - September 29, 2010 4:47 PM
he should paint it black
29. jeexus - September 29, 2010 7:37 PM
religious icon
30. like water to a robot - September 30, 2010 7:59 AM
I will give this little basted c4 melded to look like coins and low him right to satin where he belongs
31. Latest gadgets - September 30, 2010 11:37 PM
It looks dirty and the eye ball's creepy!! But it's a cool thing!
32. eva - October 1, 2010 4:35 AM
yeah ut wally picks up trash for a living this robot doesent even work for it must be an mixican BORDER CROSSING ALIENS