man takes on the Terminator, get's arrested - you could have stopped this while we still had the chance

Jason Sylvain, 41, attacked the crime-fighting K5 droid in the parking lot of robot manufacturer Knightscope the evening of April 19, Mountain View Police Department spokeswoman Katie Nelson told HuffPost. She said an employee for Knightscope detained Sylvain before officers got to the scene.

“When we arrived, we met with Sylvain, and as we were speaking with him, he appeared confused, had red, glassy eyes and a strong odor of alcohol emitted from him,” Nelson said.
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“I think this is a pretty pathetic incident,” Mountain View resident Eamonn Callon told ABC7. “It shows how spineless the drunk guys in Silicon Valley really are because they attack a victim who doesn’t even have any arms.”

“I don’t think this is a fair fight. Really, totally unacceptable,” Callon added.
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you're not going to be laughing when this happens


the terminator model in question

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But make no mistake, it’s truly a battle for the future of our species. Last year, a Knightscope droid fired the first shot and ran over a toddler in the Stanford Shopping Center parking lot. The child suffered minor injuries to his leg and foot.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/drunk-man-tackles-robot_us_5900bfc3e4b081a5c0f9e382
https://technabob.com/blog/2017/04/27/drunk-guy-tackles-robot/
 
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These are a dumb idea anyway. Security cameras do the same thing with the added bonus of not costing half your budget to maintain when they're regularly assaulted by drunks, teenagers and Florida Man.
 
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“I think this is a pretty pathetic incident,” Mountain View resident Eamonn Callon told ABC7. “It shows how spineless the drunk guys in Silicon Valley really are because they attack a victim who doesn’t even have any arms.”

“I don’t think this is a fair fight. Really, totally unacceptable,” Callon added.
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Eamonn Callon is the hero we deserve.
 
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I love this Eamonn Callon guy. I'm pretty sure this is the same guy which makes this story even MORE better.
It's objectively hilarious to imagine a Stanford philosophy professor sitting down for coffee and talking to a reporter about how it's morally wrong to attack robots who don't even have arms. The same guy wrote this:
People sometimes worry about whether a decision they made, even whether the entire life they have led so far, was truly their own. Or they may worry about the source of control in their lives, thinking that the source should in some important way lie within themselves but doubting that it really does. Such worries attest to a desire for ownership or self-rule within a life, and given that the desire is for something more than minimal accountability for what one has done or who one is, some more or less demanding ideal of personal autonomy is at stake.
So far as I approximate that ideal, I assert my identity within a story-the story of who I am and what I shall try to become. And if I fail to live autonomously, my story becomes one in which others own and rule in a way that subverts the rightful authority of the self, or else it loses all distinctive direction, becoming not so much a story as a series of experiences in which no one in particular owns or rules.
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Also @Tempest it's "gets" not "get's"
 
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Once all the :blart:s get replaced these robots getting smashed will become a regular occurrence.
 
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