Hitchhiking robot’s cross-country journey comes to tragic end in Philadelphia(washingtonpost.com)
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Hitchhiking robot’s cross-country journey comes to tragic end in Philadelphia
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I'm from Pennsylvania. This comes as absolutely no surprise.
Meh. I'm not from Philly and I'd be pretty damn tempted to decapitate it as well (if I wasn't so busy that I passed by without even noticing it).
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9990881
Here are some previous submissions of the same story:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9989884
Here are some previous submissions of the same story:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9989884
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