Stop or my bot will shoot…Water!

Thugs think twice before trying to steal a pint or two from Rufus Terrill’s bar in little town called O'Terrills in Atlanta. What’s it that they fear? Bum-bot! Bum-bot is a home brewed crime fighter. It is a barbeque smoker mounted on a three-wheeled scooter. Equipped with latest in technology, the bot has an infrared camera, spotlight, loudspeaker and a pacifist weapon – an aluminum water cannon, which shoots icy water up to 20 feet. It is no surprise that this bar owner managed to build himself a nice obedient security guard. Rufus is actually an engineer by profession. The neighborhood of his bar is infested with characters of all sorts – bums, drug dealers, prostitutes, and so on. With criminal activity rampant, it was but a matter of time that Rufus did something about it. So out came Bum-bot or as people call it Robocop. Now he moves his creation around with a remote and shouts warning through the handy loudspeaker.

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One thing that experience has taught us is that people do not appreciate vigilantes (Wait a minute, is it the other way around?). Anita Beatly, the director of a shelter for the homeless in the vicinity of the area in which Bum-bot patrols is unimpressed and says police ought to do something about the folks who prey upon the poor folk. Police, too, say that using the bot to monitor the area is fair enough but as soon as spraying water comes into picture, it is nothing but “assault.”

Well, Rufus doesn’t seem to care about such opinions cause an equal number root in favor of his little crusade. Every night he cranks up his robot and goes on trying to make a bit of difference. Bum-bot, I salute you! Damn, the tears again!

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