Armed stand-off ends with robot shot, man in hospital

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The ZeroCorpse @ Oct 29th 2007 11:11AM

If I'm not mistaken, they consider this Assault on an officer, just the same as if you shoot a police dog. He's probably going to be the first person to be sentenced to a prison term for attacking a robot.

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Zhalfim Deyn @ Oct 29th 2007 12:11PM

oh man, would that suck...

but he just might some street cred:

"hey man, what are you in for?"

"I shot a robot."

"...who are you? Sarah Connor?"

ok, guess not :P

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Chillin @ Oct 29th 2007 3:11PM

Assault on a police officer? First off, firing a gun at something is not assault, it's attempted murder. Also, it will never be called an assault or attempted murder. At most this is destruction of property, possession of a firearm, maybe discharging a firearm unlawfully (if such a law exists in that jurisdiction).

Now if it was a police dog, horse, pigeon, cat, midget or any other living being it would be assault with a deadly weapon or attempted murder (most likely the latter).

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adium @ Oct 29th 2007 6:02PM

chilin:

what happens when the robots have full on AI?

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