[68908]

A robot met its end near Coors Field tonight when the Denver Police Department Bomb Squad detonated the "suspicious object," bringing to an end the hours-long standoff between police and the approximately eight-inch tall figurine.

A bomb squad robot was sent it to examine the troublesome robot before a bomb squad officer, dressed in heavy protective gear, took a turn.

Murray said that the bomb squad couldn't be sure if the robot was safe or not, and so remotely detonated it at about 5:30 p.m. to "render it safe." The robot exploded into several chunks.

Read more: Toy robot detours traffic near Coors Field - The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_16752 ... z17BFqkbOD

Is that all it takes to tie up a police force for hours and get the bomb squad called out? A toy robot?

 

[sirkut]

Wow. Reminds me of the viral marketing fiasco with regards to aqua teen hunger force movie led signs...that too prompted bomb techs to dispose of them. This is sad.

 

[45Alive]

obviously, it was a toy robot of extraordinary magnitude.

 

[Taurus92]

It seems bomb sniffing dogs might be a less dramatic way to check this out, but then again that may be too efficient and less likely to scare the population into thinking they are being "kept safe". Maybe this explains what happened to that red fire engine truck I thought I lost as a kid.

/Scene switches to Charlton Heston pounding the sand screaming "You blew it up! D*mn you!"

Their basis for concern are from stories like this:

from Nov 7, 2010:
Al Qaeda planning toy bombs in Britain during Christmas

and back in 2000:
Toy bomb kills four in Pakistan

and old but still relevant:
from http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/1987/01/the-report-that-the-un-wants-to-suppress-soviet-atrocities-in-afghanistan

As stated in earlier reports, the main types of action [by Soviet and/or Soviet-controlled forces] which. have caused deaths and casualties, in particular among the civilian population of Afghanistan, ar e bombardments, shelling and massacres in reprisal acts of brutality committed by armed forces, and the use of 11 EXCERPTS d anti-personnel mines and booby-trap toys. The Special Rapporteur learned that chemical fertilizers, so-called "seism" mines anti-pe r sonnel.mines and,booby-t.rap toysswere:still used; He was also informed of the use of toy-bombs inside houses 34.

...

Toy bombs are still used [by the Soviet troops affecting the civilian population, especially children and animals.

 

[seereus]

We can only be thankful it was not a GI JOE

 

[45Alive]

Toy robots can be quite deadly...

fast forward to 4:20...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4g0YpYO ... re=related

from Kentucky Fried Movie

 

[68908]

Toy robots can be quite deadly...

fast forward to 4:20...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4g0YpYO ... re=related

from Kentucky Fried Movie

:lol: Well we all know that this robot was capable of sending out "a strange mind-control ray that robs humans of common sense." Or so says Mike Vanderboegh. That sort of thing is very dangerous. :righton:

 

[Metalheadisme]

Toy robots can be quite deadly...

fast forward to 4:20...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4g0YpYO ... re=related

from Kentucky Fried Movie

Hah, glad to see that I wasn't the only one who immediately thought about this when I saw the post topic.

Hopefully they can find the person who planted this evil toy robot and take him to... Detroit!

 

[1str8shot]

atleast no-one was being overly paranoid........