Maybe not, but it has still been an ironic nickname for most of the city’s existence. Besides, “City of Brotherly Love” looks better on T shirts than City Where Fans Intentionally Vomit on Children at Phillies’ Games."
Eagles fans, obviously.
This right here is the real reason we have wars: so we can send our reckless young males off to destroy other people’s robots.
Doulocidopolis.
HitchBOT’s Wikipedia page is very terse, and I can’t find the details in any stories about this event I can find. Having never heard of this bot before, could someone explain how it worked, how it communicated what it was and where it wanted to go and how autonomous it was?
Here’s the Hitchbot website http://www.hitchbot.me/
I love irony that allows subtle sarcasm or sardonic stuff. If you can pull it off, you can really mess with people by acting the True Believer. Back in the day, my office had the coffee mess, and it was often visited by CPOs and Warrant Officers who were students who wanted to visit while we were trying to work or just get away from our students for a couple of minutes so we could gripe about them. I found that if I could sneak in a righteous sounding “I’m just a simple Petty Officer doing my duty as God has shown me the light to see that duty”, I could get them to nervously clear out in under 4 seconds. And you can disrupt a high school assembly by standing up, placing your hand over your heart, facing the flag, and reciting, with feeling, the Pledge Of Allegiance. You could follow that with a sing along of The Star Spangled Banner, but it’s hard to sing. America the Beautiful works too.
At least it didn’t happen in Detroit.
America.
We kill more than lions.
Maybe that’s why the robot’s head is missing. Somebody has it mounted on a plaque on the wall in his living room.
If he’s caught, he’ll claim he had a permit and was a big contributor to robot conservation.
No lie, I want that on a shirt and I would wear it proudly
Hitchbot’s head was last seen in Paddy’s Pub in the vicinity of 3rd and Dickinson. The bar owners are sure they have a way to make money from it.
It’s the Bot Dahlia.
Hitchbot got off easy. Look what Philly did to Santa Claus.
Did they behead and dismember him, too?:eek:
I should have said:
Americans: Not just killing lions anymore.
I was stationed at the Navy base for 2 years in the '80s and was just getting over my hate for the city. Now its back.
Sad this is. He would have never made it through Detroit in one piece.
Funny you should say that. Surveillance video appears to show a man in an Eagles jersey stomping the bot: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/20150804_Can_hitchBOT_be_saved__Philly_tech_sector_rallies_around_battered__bot.html
As the story goes on to report, the city’s geek community is hoping to either replace Hitchbot or build a tribute bot to continue the journey.
https://www.thehacktory.org/hitchbot-meets-demise-in-philly-no-way/
This is Philadelphia; it was obviously sold for scrap - presumably to support a drug habit.
This was a really cool idea. Too bad some people don’t want to play nice.
In the age of self driving cars I’m sure the roads will be kinder to wondering robots.
That’s the way of robo-hitching: gas, grass or brass (for recycling).