cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19944734
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - A sight previously thought to be science fiction is very real at a southeast Kansas City shopping center. Instead of a police officer, a security robot has been patrolling sidewalks and shoppers are taking notice.
Since Marshall the robot has been on the job, shoppers say the experiences have completely changed when they come to these stores. The robot can spend 23 hours a day monitoring the parking lot from all angles which gives people a new sense of protection and ease they don’t always have when out.
Marshall took over security at Brywood Centre in April. Before that, Karen White noticed a lot of trouble outside the shopping center.
“Sometimes it’d be concerning for your car like someone could take it or something,” White said.
Knowing now that Marshall is always watching, the risk of crime does not worry her or others as much.
“It made it very better, like you can’t be in the parking lot without seeing the robot,” White continued. “So, I think it scared them off.”
Imagine shoplifting and they show up at the exit like:
HALT!
I’m pretty sure privacy goes out the window when you commit a crime. If it isn’t robots it would be humans arresting you.
Don’t support criminals in any form as they are the ones who are actively creating a need to stop crime.
The bootlicking version of “why do you need privacy if you have nothing to hide?”
“Sometimes it’d be concerning for your car like someone could take it or something,” White said.
Wow, that couldn’t be a better sentence to highlight the layers of meaning in that comment.
I have a really cute video of my 3 year old daughter chasing one of those through the mall.
“Pick up your gum wrapper. You have 20 seconds to comply…”
gun wrapper
Ha, good catch. Damn you autocorrect!
I read that in dalek voice
I read that in ED-209
Pick up that can
put it. in the trash can.
One time I threw it at him and it managed to bounce off of his chest into the can. I’ve never been able to replicate it. He still chased me around the room through lol.
I like to throw it at them, then sprint away to see if I can make it outside before I get smacked. It’s about 50/50.
It could only be a joke. It is? Oh shit…
Imagine it had guns and tasers its gonna end horribly
exactly my thought
people consumed all these dystopian movies and thought “what a great rubric for society!” we’re so fucked lol. These death machines (like drones and such) are also where the most work and funding go for machine learning and AI research too. What could go wroooong
Don’t post pictures of text
It isn’t just text in this case
Its mostly text. how can blind people read the text? We need to downvote people who post pictures of text without transcribing it. Mods are really failing at this
This’ll last until somebody with a mask spray paints the cameras.
even just a blindfold or a bedsheet over the cameras could do the job
I’ve seen Chopping Mall and know how this is going to end
I’m glad someone else had this thought!
Runaway as well, but without the mall.
One of these hit my car. It was out patrolling randomly in a parking lot and I pulled up to get a better look at it. I stopped like 6 ft in front of it but it just kept on coming and ran into my fucking car.
Sorry, I laughed. Did it do damage? What was the outcome?
Left some paint on the car but that was it.
That’s the downside of having the invisible boatmobile, they just keep coming
“You are illegally parked on private property. You have twenty seconds to move your vehicle.” -ED-209
did the engineers install red leds in the eyes? if yes we might have a problem
If I give the robot a wegie and put a piece of dirty underwear in its head, will it shoot me?
It’s in America so yes.
…If I give a cat a wegie and put a piece of dirty underwear on its head, will it shoot me?
My point is that this thing is a dumb robot tha doesn’t have a weapon. So its actually a step up from racist mall cops shooting people because they’re brown.
EXTERMINATE!!!
Wasn’t this the exact plot of Revolution of the Daleks?
I knew I was not the only one
CITIZEN! DO NOT BE ALARMED! YOU WILL FEEL A SMALL TICKLING SENSATION AND THEN DEATH!
We have protectrons in malls now?!
