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The long-anticipated robot police are in action at last. Old-fashioned fleshy cops in Hingham, Massachusetts, were forced to call in mechanised assistance on Saturday as a tense siege situation spiralled out of control. "A five-hour standoff between police and a 23-year-old Hingham man barricaded inside an apartment ended... …

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  1. John A Blackley

    Hilarious - and scary.

    This is wonderful! One drunk with a knife and suddenly an army of heavily-armed policemen is in play. Any parallels with America's policy in the Middle East here?

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  2. Ian Ferguson

    So what did the robot actually do?

    Apart from arriving on the scene, requiring help from a human, and taking all the credit, did the robot assist in any way?

    I'd also like to know why gun-toting police and robot-equipped bomb disposal crew were necessary for a drunk guy who chucked a knife into a wall, but hey-ho, only in America.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    Alice's Restaurant revisited?

    The level of attention and police presence is very reminiscent of Arlo Guthrie's song "Alice's Restaurant". Similar setup, too -- a small Massachusetts town.

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  4. kain preacher

    borded cops

    this is what hapens in small town america with a bored police dept. Simple traffic stop can turn into a swat action.

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