A woman was beaten to death by her ex-husband, and the police sent in a toy to get him to surrender.
Look at the pictures of the "robot" in the story, which allegedly costs $15,000. My kid has a toy that is almost identical, it even has night vision. It may have cost $100.
Looking at the Times comments, the consensus is that the police should not have sent in a toy to do a police officer's work, that the woman may have been alive and they lost valuable time calling in the SWAT team, which only resulted in the toy going in.
In the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre, liberals have been calling for universal disarmament of civilians, essentially outsourcing personal safety to the police. Well, this incident shows what can happen if you depend on the police to protect you. Despite the propaganda, police don't prevent crime, they clean up the mess after its over.
Should the police have gone in guns-a-blazin? I can see why they didn't. I'm pretty sure that this happened in a condo development, who knows what would have happened if weapons discharged, those walls are so thin and the development is rather dense. What would the comments have been if they had gone in, and a neighbor got shot?
This happened in Munster, but these folks were from Chicago. A nice address can't keep the rif-raff out.
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What this also shows Buzz is that even w/o a gun psychos will still kill. I hope the test of the family is sane enough to help the poor child through the trauma.
My first thought was "I sure miss Robot Wars. Those guys would build some amazing machine, have it escape the rising circular saws and other ring hazards, and still have to defeat the rival."
My second thought was, "I sure miss Acco Supply on Chicago Avenue just west of the Boulevard in East Chicago. The place had everything electronic & electrical, even out of date tubes and old computer connectors that even Radio Shack no longer had. Between Acco, and American Science & Surplus in the city, I could build this very machine for $250. For another $600 I'd arm the son of a gun like a Claymore, but more directional and less of a swath for the bearings to fly. Unless you also want an omnidirectional blast for turning a roomful of gang bangers into mash."
My third thought was, "Mike's SWAT Bot Supply & Service." If there's that much of a mark-up on a dim little Tonka track vehicle that just does sight and sound, I wonder what mad money I'd make with night scopes, drug sniffers, stop-stick deployers (why have a cop get run over throwing a stop stick as the runaway car approaches?), whatever else option they need?
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