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- LaughingMan11, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31Maybe dangerous for the Roomba :D.
But seriously, it does seem to have the risk of causing an accident... a car comes by, runs it over, blows a tire... seems very bad... - jals, on 10/12/2007, -5/+29Just what I was thinking. I'm all for fun and games, but if someone swerved to avoid this thing there could be a bit of an accident.
- Saint3k, on 10/12/2007, -5/+28Wow, isn't that dangerous?
- digitalgopher, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Photo slideshow of the project:
http://news.com.com/2300-1041_3-6049976-1.html?tag=ne.gall.pg - MadMan459, on 10/12/2007, -11/+28Dangerous and stupid. Kudos to anyone posting to this that realizes that playing games on a busy highway is not a great idea. I wonder how fun these jerks would have thought their game was if it caused someone to die in a traffic accident? If I saw that I would have turned around and kicked their asses, after stomping the ***** out of their little toy. Seriously.
- DaffyDuck, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16This just begs for a video. Directly overhead of course.
There was a funny Seinfeld episode when George gets the high score on an arcade game of Frogger. He buys the machine and attempts to carry it across the busy new york street, Frogger style. - hordak, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Ha! This goes right up there with the Frogger-based Seinfeld episode.
- jackington, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Why would you do something like this and not capture it on video? What the hell is wrong with people?
- mogdor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11What morons. This could really damage somebody's car, or worse yet, injure or kill someone. They look old enough to know better, instead they sit there giggling about it like a couple of stupid 15-year olds. Someone should report this site to the local police and get them arrested.
- thomashallock, on 10/12/2007, -2/+116th street at night ain't exactly a highway. It's so packed with end-to-end bars that often-times they'll close the street down comeletely and let the innebriated pedestrians wander about. When there are cars, they seldom go more than 10 MPH.
- PrayerNeeder, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Not funny, and not especially geeky. I could have done the same when I was 12 and had a remote control car. Why didn't I? I knew even at 12 that it was a stupid, destructive thing to do. Had they modded the roomba for speed and put on a roomba race, that would have been cute. Painted a red and white #3 on it, and they mighta brang a tear to some Dale Earnhardt fans. You might even have pleased his widow, Theresa.
Or had these guys reversed the fan and modded it for hovering down the river, that would have been geeky, and relatively harmless.
What is geeky about endangering peoples' lives!? - thenorwegian, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9yeah if i saw this on the road i would try to avoid it...this was just a stupid, juvenile idea.
- AdamCo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Panique;
The difference is you are putting your own health at risk, not someone elses, besides maybe when you drive on the wrong side of the road on purpose for whatever reason. Anyway, these guys weren't in harms way, the drivers could have been. You haven't injured anyone or had a collision yet? well, I haven't died yet, that must mean it's never going to happen. This has nothing to do with being a safety nazi and everything to do with being responsible and having consideration for the people around you. That's what this world needs more of and sounds like what you need more of. - AdamCo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Because in fiction and movies it is a controlled environment, this is not. This is something that the people driving do not know about beforehand and don't have a script telling them what they should do and what the object crossing the road is. Fiction and movies have stunt drivers and professionals. This could have caused an accident where someone could have gotten injured or even killed. Sounds to me that you can't comprehend the line between fiction and reality. Like Metal Guru said, not everything you see on TV should be acted out in real life. Not everyone should reenact their favorite jackass stunt just because they see it on TV. Do you not understand that concept?
- Metal_Guru, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Not only does it look pointlessly dangerous (I'd hate to be the one trying to avoid driving over it), it is also nothing to write home about. It isn't cool to destroy gadgets and technology just like that, every geek knows that.
"Everyone hoping that it would get crushed..." Bastards. Isn't there an organization against cruelty to household appliances? - hockeygoon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I would of swerved just to run those morons over.
- Prol1fic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6And there are jackasses out there who put bricks in paper bags and place them in the middle of the road for "fun".
- streetstealth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Yeah, seriously, dude, let's learn to separate movies and reality.
I'm a big fan of crime films myself; guess how many real-life heists I've participated in?
I agree that this would have been hilarious in a movie to the same degree that I agree it was downright stupid and dangerous in real life. - DocXango, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Just what I need, another reason to go to 6th street. Seriously though, it's 6th street late at night, all the drivers are too drunk to swerve.
- pixelwerx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Umm. Austin actually. If this had been in NYC, somebody would have beaten up the Roomba and stolen it's green shirt before it ever made it to the street.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5You talk about people who don't have enough to do with thier lives....
- Sgeo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roomba
It's basically an automatic vaccum thing that apparently is programmable - tuphat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Juvenile stunt that could have caused an accident.
Like most schemes formulated while under the influence, a bad idea.
-digg - nogami, on 10/12/2007, -12/+15Stupid idiots - what happens when a driver sees a foreign object on the road and swerves to avoid it and goes right into a minivan full of kids.
I hope the cops get called on these jackasses and they get convicted... - WolfNinja, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Pretty stupid. If they had caused an accident and someone was injured (either a motorist or a pedestrian watching their little experiment), this would have been a very different story. I wish they were arrested.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Probably because of the much-higher ability of the Austin PD to successfully prosecute with video. Notice that there are no license plates showing here, thus it's a lot harder to bring a complaint.
- megabytehl, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6"Get pictures of it now because it's not going to look like this" for long, said Kyle Machulis, an expert in "teledildonics"--sex toys that are controlled remotely via the Internet.
...holy *****, did I read that correctly...hahaha - cpmoser, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Idiots. Putting other people's lives in danger for their own amusement.
Throw the book at 'em. - brandizzle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5That's ***** badass. I want it. Now.
I'm really suprised that they didn't get sued though, for causing a person to swerve to avoid it, or anything else of the sort. - coolgeek61813, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4a waste of a robotic vacuum cleaner but I must say it is mildly entertaining
- camintmier, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4It was probably a 4-lane road, and since it crossed the street 10 times, 4 x 10 = 40 lanes.
- camintmier, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Hop, ribbit.
Hop, ribbit.
Hop, beep beep!!!
Hop, thump thump... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+9OMG. Please stop saying "Seinfeld!". We know already. Read the comments before you post. The stoners have overtaken Digg.
- ChrisGranger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wow, great idea, using traffic as part of your entertainment. Let's play a game of "shopping cart full of cinder blocks on the train tracks" later too.
Idiots. Hopefully nobody gets hurt by these stupid kids and their Roomba-related stunts. - blobzorz, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6That was one of the top 10 seinfeld episodes.
Anyway, good idea at the time, but stupid idea when they did it - hofferfish, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3i love the thing at the bottom about where it says the quote is by: Kyle Machulis, an expert in "teledildonics"--sex toys that are controlled remotely via the Internet.
they have a word for everything now - PrettyBoyFloyd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Read the f*cking article, idiots. It wasn't on a busy highway, it was on Austin's famous 6th Street nightclub district at 2:00- 3:00 a.m. when the bars were closed. Congress Avenue on the other side of the Driskill might have been more interesting, but it sounds like it was a lot of fun anyway.
- Xopl, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It was on a city street. Not the highway. Low speeds. Nobody was gonna get killed.
- theISABELfish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2All they have to do is add a sign on it that says "Please run over me!" and it'll be just real Frogger.
- AKron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Not cool with my $$$ Roomba. Controlling one is built-in to the machine via serial port, a no-brainer for most.
- AdamCo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2panique;
I don't see anywhere that I illustrated your point of overreacting and I certainly am not getting "my panties in a bunch" over something you did, sorry. - antdude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Or Robot Chicken video parody of the video game: http://media.putfile.com/Robot-Chicken-Frogger
http://www.milkandcookies.com/links/38425/detail/ has the video clip from Seinfeld.
Ugh, I have its theme song in my head now. :( - serra, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wow, those people must be really really bored!
- captainnico, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1wow, haven't any of you hit a dog before? I'm pretty sure that people here of such *cough* high intelligence would have no problem making the split second decision to save their own life rather than swerve to avoid a robotic frisbee. I mean, I know there are a lot of bad drivers out there, but this is scary.
- shinythings, on 12/30/2008, -0/+1My daughter is scared of the Roomba: http://digg.com/comedy/Perceptions_of_Roomba LOL!
- dgritsko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1at first i thought, "whoa, hey, this is pretty cool. neat idea." but after reading through the comments above, i realized just how dumb these guys actually are. just think of what might happen if someone swerved to try and avoid it. didn't their parents teach them not to play in the street?
- bonlebon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2$100 this thing doesn't make it on Houston's I-45 at anytime of the day.
- monsieurgrand02, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3That's awesome. Now lets do it across a highway or freeway.
- D4r7h3v1l, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5I love that episode.
- MasterDwarf, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I wonder if they had Frogger music jammin on a nearby sound stage. Life imitates video game.
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