Renegade Roomba trips home alarm, cops underwhelmed upon arrival
By Darren Murph 
posted Dec 9th 2008 8:21AM
posted Dec 9th 2008 8:21AM
[Thanks, morten]
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Where's Mc Gyver for now?
The alarm system itself stupid. I have a cat running around the house. The alarm never goes off because of that.
This was actually a really, really big roomba.
well its clear your breedng ninja stealth cats...
I will take two and payment upon delievery
Lol
Maybe the Romba was secretly trying to steal stuff when the family is gone.
no ever thinks about that..... :D
I wouldn't like to be the cop questioning the suspect. He won't get anything out of this tough bastard.
Except maybe dust >:)
...but what about debris?
"Alarm tripping is a new trick for a robot, congratulations."
"I did not trip it!"
It wasn't renegade - it found more dirt than it could handle and it called for back-up!
Not more than it could handle, just donut crumbs...
innocent-looking.
...but, the Broomba broke into the gun cabinet...
Some says he will only move at certain times of the day.
Some say he eats dust for for fun.
All we know hee called the Roomba stig.
Its not the stig,
its the stigs electonic cousin. roomba stig.
This isnt as innocent as it seems! Its actually Skynet testing out ideas of how to put our emergency systems into disarray! Soon millions of Roombas all over the world wake up and trip our home alarms! While the police are at our house going, "WTF MATES?!" robots will be rampaging through the streets killing all of us!
Dont blame Skynet. Its Apple! Checkout the name... iROBOT! Do I need to say anything else?
Go ahead. Keep joking about this. "oh no, it's skynet, ha ha ha to terminator references!" This is a serious issue. This is just a first glimpse at robots testing us. See how we respond. Smash all your roomba's now before they can evolve to something more dangerous.
Dont worry Will Smith will come to rescue us.
YAY for will smith saving us! but will he be a cyborg or a super hero?
Make sure you keep the cat out as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ-jv8g1YVI
Makes me think of this Onion article: http://www.theonion.com/content/news/roomba_violates_all_three_laws_of
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pasdDicu0Ms :)
It's always the quiet ones you gotta watch.
the retard who setup the alarm should be blamed... motion sensors have a low area where they are blind...about the height of a cat. so the motion sensor was setup wrong, very wrong
It wasn't cleaning. That was its cover. It was testing the sensitivity of the alarm system in order to prepare for the future robot uprising.
If this happened in NYC, the cops would have shot it.
Except it wouldn't have happened in NYC, because everybody in NYC that uses an alarm system has heard of a little thing called "pet immune motion detectors".
Is a Roomba a pet? No. But does it weigh less than 40 or 80 pounds? (Depending on the sensitivity you set.) Yes? Then PID's won't get set off.
Even if you haven't heard of PID's, every single alarm system ships with them standard.
They're obviously using some sort of 1970's alarm system technology over there in Denmark.
I have an 80 pound German Shepherd that doesn't set off the motion sensors (yes they are "pet safe"), yet my roomba sets off the alarms system...
This is why we have to start making people pay $250 for false alarms. 97% of alarm calls are false alarms, so taxpayers are paying salaries, cars, and gas for police officers to chase Roombas around all night instead of murderers and thieves.
In my city the first false alarm is free... accidents happen. If you have a second one within 6 months its $80, if you have a third one within 6 months of the original one its $700. As you can no doubt see the false alarm's only stay on your record for 6 months but they count for medical, fire, and police.
For this reason I put a pet collar on my roomba that disables the motion sensors in the room it is in. It set off the alarm once when I first got it but fortunately I was still at home so was able to turn it off.
Amazing, just plugged in my new Roomba this morning, then I saw this! We have pet safe detectors, but by the sounds of it that won't deter this little bot from having its fun!
Decepticons!?!?!?!?!
Well, that sucks!
What if some criminal decides to break into a house and leave a Roomba running while he loots everything out of the place? The cops wouldn't have any idea.
let's cuff 'em boys.
Witness is refusing to respond. Permission to treat it as hostile?
This is quickly becoming a caption contest
Sorry officer but I can vouch for Roomba, you see he has an alibi. You see officer is was at the Woot off yesterday for hours he was featured a couple of time for at least an hour each time. HE IS INNOCENT I TELL YOU....YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE ME!!
i love you Roomba :)