Homicidal Robot! [Weirdest Murders]
Thursday, July 1st, 2010Everyday this week…Brett Rounsaville brings us the Weirdest Murders ever committed.
The wheels were set in motion on January 25th, 1979. Now it’s just a matter of time…
That’s the date that Robert Williams of Flat Rock, Michigan, during an otherwise uneventful shift on an assembly line, met his fatal demise at the murderous hands of (…wait for it…) A ROBOT!
Never before in history had a robot been responsible for the death of a human being. I like to picture that in the year 2025, a short ten years after the release of the hover board, in the wastelands of the new Robotopia will stand a monument to the robotic arm that crushed Williams for getting in its way while it tried to retrieve some vital parts.
No word on whether or not the robot had foreknowledge of Williams’s grandson becoming the leader of the human resistance.
According to an article on wired.com, “The jury agreed the robot struck him in the head because of a lack of safety measures…” Which I can only assume means the robot was a stickler for safety and eventually had all it could take of Williams’s careless work practices.
For those of you that say this one is cheating and not an actual murder, I say, “Time will shed full light on the truth and I for one welcome our new robot overlords.”
What are your thoughts on the coming Robopocalypse? What’s the best way to fend off a murderous robot?