Roomba saves child from deadly Viper, challenges Tango to a fight
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted November 27th 2009 10:30AM
posted November 27th 2009 10:30AM
We've always known that the Roomba was something of a bad-ass -- iRobot, after all, has quite a reputation within the defense industry -- so we weren't surprised when one of the autonomous vacuum cleaners took down a certain Vipera palaestinae (a venomous snake found in the Middle East). Considered a leading cause of snakebites within its geographic range, the snake was found mangled 'round one of the robot's rotating brushes when Eli and Efi Frida returned to their home in Galilee, which they share with their two children, aged four and seven (as well as several cats and dogs). "We were very lucky," said Eli, "If the snake would have hid in the house and bitten one of the children it could have ended badly."
@WalnutSoap
r u living under stone?
@WalnutSoap
One of the greatest tragedies of the digital age is the utter ignorance of human beings who literally have the world at their fingertips, but at the same time are intellectually lazy beyond reproach.
Google Maps is a click away, yet many Americans can't find Britain or Japan on a map.
That is a sorry state of affairs.
Nahash! Nahash!
see, I read Hebrew. Not very well.
Happened in Galilee for a reason!
They should've put this on Snakes on a Plane...
I hate to put a damper on the already semi-tepid response to the heroism of this roomba,but I'm gonna guess that given a snakes sensitivity to vibration that if the snake really did get sucked up into the roomba, it's probably because the snake was already dead. It may have died from natural causes, or one of the cats might have already killed it.
Just a thought...
@OddManOut Plus One for original thought!
@OddManOut
Well that and that fact that a snake most definitely moves a lot faster than a Roomba (my parents have one, I've seen it move, quite the slow poke compared to a snake.). That is assuming that all of the people that have mentioned the Frida's rigging it up in some sort of automatic snake wrangling device were wrong.....
@Dava
I meant the not that.