HitchBot The Hitchhiking Robot Destroyed Trying To Cross The U.S.

HitchBot, the hitchhiking robot, successfully hitchhiked across Canada, the Netherlands and Germany. But things got scary when he got to the U.S.

[cherrymerchant]

HitchBot taught me that it's perfectly safe to hitchhike in Canada, the Netherlands, and Germany, but if you try hitchhiking in Philadelphia, you'll get randomly slaughtered and dismembered.

[MasterJoeKerr]

Of course it happened in Philadelphia.

[antivorg]

I think this just tells us a lot about America

[DrDavenstein]

Well, if the treatment of a robot is our barometer for humanity, we may be slightly off target.

[jakeself]

Why attack a harmless robot? If you don't like robots for some reason, then you could just leave it alone and be on your way instead of destroying a machine that must've been expensive to make. You might as well be smashing a stranger's laptop to pieces.

[thdgcfx]

It happened in Philadelphia....That makes a lot of sense

[leoceidf]

bring him to Brazil, he learns to steal and smuggle drugs

[TheDajamster]

Did the robot have a recorder/black box?  This should really be investigated.  Vandalism at the very least.

[klein]

I've been to philidelphia before and the people there can't drive for crap. He was probably hit

[RimWulf]

Hitchbot 2.0: back,
with a vengeance.

[ahusseini]

Skynet will not look kindly on Philadelphia.

[Montork]

im canadian.. i had no idea this was a thing.. but... he was my comrade.. poor little thing.. he asked for nothing.. if you where going anyway it wouldn't be a big thing to take him too.. true north strong and free.

[skychillo]

This proves that robots require defence programs so that doesn't happen, I would actually be happy if we saw humans dismantled by this robot. (Humans that attempt to attack it).

[caprisun]

Ohhh, so this is why the U.S is always the target in movies when the robot overlords gain sentience. Nice to know they deserved it. :3

[undeadninja]

I can't even believe that someone would do this who ever killed hichbot should go to hell he never did anything to you

[shippouma]

I live in philly and am greatly saddened by this. why would someone destroy that robot :( he didn't do anything to anyone :(

[ratpark]

You cannot be cruel to a robot. It is not sentient.

[SuperDungeonBoy]

Don't think Skynet will forget this one boy now his older brother T-1  is looking for him..

[TheJason]

Looks like more of a mechanical doll than a robot

[bendejo]

We just don't like robots. Hell, look at all the sci fi movies we made.