'Bum Bot' shoos loiterers outside Atlanta bar
Bar owner Rufus Terrill has enlisted a rather odd-looking security guard to chase away prostitutes and drug dealers milling about his Atlanta tavern: an R2-D2-like robot called "Bum Bot 2000."
The patchwork device is controlled via remote control and targets law-breakers, reports The Los Angeles Times. But homeless advocates aren't too fond of Terrill's water-squirting Bum Bot.
Read the full Los Angeles Times story: "Robot reports for security duty in Atlanta"
Tito Estrada is a news producer at CNET News. He occasionally blogs on the quirky nature of the Net. E-mail Tito. 



The instant he shoots me with his water cannon, his little R2D2 wannabe is trash.
- by hassan_bin_sober March 31, 2008 7:11 AM PDT
- He's got a water gun, I got a big ass .45 automatic. Who do you think is going to win that shootout. Next, you go and deal with the driver the same way!
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