Fictitious conversation between two dope dealers that just moved to a new area:

Number 1: Hey, you new?

Number 2: Yeah, how 'bout you?

No1: Same here, how so?

No2: Usual shit dude, some foreign cartel moved in and started messing with me and the others...And you? Foreigners too?

No1: No man worse! A fucking BBQ robot vigilante that pissed icy water for over 20 feet started chasing me while screaming "I Am The Law"! I still have nightmares of it appearing here too!

No2: Dude...just stick to selling the damn dope.

Well we have a goverment that keeps cutting funding to the real important sevices to try to get us to pay more taxes. So what do any think is going to happen the people will do what needs to be done to keep our cities safe.

Well... first one to use a robot I guess. But there are also these guys (and girls).

OK, I know progressive liberals are not supposed to like ideas like vigilante justice, but you know, as a mother of a 14 yr mugged in broad daylight on the busiest thoroughfare of our south side chicago neighborhood....

where can I get me one of these???!!!

Headline tomorrow:

Vigilante Sprays Criminal With Water, Gets Stabbed in Throat

Exactly what I was thinking. The homeless don't always have an option. Maybe try helping them get their life in order rather then giving them the 'ole spray down.

The dealers, on the other hand?

Fuck 'em.

The last bit of the original article at CNN, states that 99% of the time, the bright light and the loudspeaker get the people to move along. When he does use the water cannon, he doesn't it spray it directly at the people, he sprays it next to them, or near them and that usually gets them to move on.

The guy who runs the robot is a bar owner and a board member for a local day care center. The drug dealers, prostitutes and homeless gather on the playground at wee hours of the morning. They leave needles, crack pipes used condoms and do such great things as defecate on the playground equipment. This creates a greater cost to the daycare center, because now they have material that they just can't throw in the garbage, and they have to bring a cleaning crew in to clean the playground up prior to opening the daycare.

I wrote an article on this and submitted it *shakes fist at TheCoolerKing* and did a little more research on the robot. When he runs the robot up to the area, he is a safe distance away, and usually hidden. It's not like he is walking directly behind the thing like he is in the video.

I am pretty sure the police department doesn't approve of the water cannon because it's not a Taser. You know how cops like their Tasers.

I kind of admire the guy. In a day and age when people turn to firearms to try to alleviate a situation like this, the guy is using human ingenuity, water, a loud speaker and a bright light.

People always have options. They maybe limited at times, they maybe big or small..but they always have options. That is why it is called free will,..unless of course you believe in predestination and that everyones live is set in concrete and cannot be altered from the grand master plan. Some the homeless don't have options? how bout this option 1) I can go sleep in the kids playground and shit and eat with the drug dealers and hookers and possibly face being super soaked by a robot vigilante or 2) Go sleep somewhere else 3)maybe try and take advantage of the social welfare systems that 200 million taxpayers pay into each year and try and turn my current situation around a little. There is thousands rags to riches stories in the world, of people who had nothing and tried to turn it all round from themselves. Not every hobo is going to be able to do it,..but if one of them manages to clean themselves up, and eventually get a job hauling out rubbish from restaurants for $5 an hour, that is a success story to me of someone that had dick and tried to do something about it...and very least there is option 4) I will at least to try to respect that children play in this area and not shit on their equipment.

Fuck, sorry dude... Feel free to throw it in here as a comment if you like... or whatever. Not the same, I know. I've had that happen twice and it's annoying...

Even if he's covered, the range on that thing can't be far enough to keep him that safe. And it's not like they can't follow the robot back to him. I hope he keeps at it though.

As far as the homeless aspect. I think if you look at the full spectrum of homeless types, from polite down-on-his-lucker to obnoxious, drunk, obscenity spouting rage-ball, a decent percentage of them could do with a little cold water hose down...

It happens, i will find something else to write about. We evidently think alike because this one just sprung out at me, and i thought "A fawking BBQ smoker? srsly?" and then decided everyone needed to know about it.

Temperatures have the potential to get to the low 20's in Atlanta at night. While i agree with spraying them with water is much better than tasing them, or some other violent means, it would definitely suck to get soaked with cold water, then have no place to go to warm up. The prostitutes and drug dealers at least have some type of dwelling to go to, while the homeless are just kind of stuck being cold.

I was glad to see that he doesn't actually squirt them, that he just uses it as a scare tactic.

Damn straight, both counts.

I love how that robot has "security" stenciled on it. I figure when Atlanta is really serious about security robots, though, they'll have to update the design a bit.