* Man gets plans for suicide robot on web
* Man builds robot; robot shoots man dead
AN 81-year-old man has shot himself dead with an elaborate suicide robot built using plans downloaded from the internet.
The Gold Coast man, who lived alone, left notes of his plans and thoughts as he struggled to come to terms with demands by interstate relatives that he move out his home and into care.
He spent hours searching the internet for a way to kill himself, downloaded what he needed and then built a complex machine that would remotely fire a gun.
He set the device up in his driveway about 7am yesterday, placed himself in front of it and set it in motion.
His notes explained that he chose the driveway as he knew there were tradesmen working next door who would find his body. The plan worked as the workmen heard the gunshots and ran to investigate.
The machine was attached to a .22 semi-automatic pistol loaded with four bullets.
It was able to fire multiple shots into the man's head after he activated it.
Who was that guy who bitched in HoS about the non-existence of suicide booths? Huh? HUH?!
Seriously, as sad as this is, well... if you gotta go, you can do it in style.
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It may be morbid, but I'm curious what the robot looks like. Is it something I might want to use for home security? (Armed with non-lethal weapons, of course.)
Those gun nuts do not understand the meaning of "overkill," and will simply use weapon after weapon of mass destruction (WMD) until the monster is dead, or until they run out of weapons.
They have more WMD than there are monsters for us to fight. (More insanity here.)
He probably wanted to be certain of his death. Believe it or not, people can survive bullet wounds even to the head, and with something like a .22 pistol, there is a high probability that he could have ended up with brain damage-- a living death and a fate far worse than the one he was trying to avoid (from his point of view, anyway).
Something about Libertarianism always bothered me. Then one day, I realized what it was:
Libertarian philosophy can be boiled down to the phrase, "Work Will Make You Free."
In Libertarianism, there is no Government, so the Bosses are free to exploit the Workers.
In Communism, there is no Government, so the Workers are free to exploit the Bosses.
So in Libertarianism, man exploits man, but in Communism, its the other way around! If all you want to do is have some harmless, mindless fun, go H3RE INST3ADZ0RZ!! Grrr! Fight my Brute, you pansy!
Or it could be psychological. The difference may be minimal, but it's got to be easier to push a button and sit back than to actually pull the trigger yourself.
Personally I would never try that with a .22 caliber weapon, there's a video on Youtube showing some attorney getting shot multiple times in the head/chest area, he just walks away from it while the guy who shot him (his client) is wrestled to the ground.
Well, if it's on the Gold Coast, he may not really have had decent access to higher calibre weapons. It's not as though the gun laws are any different up there than they are in the rest of Australia.
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Robots have been killing for an awful long time; I’d say the first victims came with the sinking of central battery armored ship Blanco Encalada by locomotive torpedo in 1891.
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