The Greater Philadelphia Area
WEST CHESTER, PA — In a case of police brutality and police misconduct, several West Chester Police Department officers attacked a street musician for no apparent reason. In a statement to Lt. Sam Iacono a witness said, “After being harassed by several police officers, I was terrorized when Office A.J. McCarthy, Officer Jason O’Neil, and other unidentified officers assaulted an individual for no apparent reason.”
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WEST CHESTER, PA — Curtis Smith, 34-year-old resident of Coatesville, was shot dead by a Sheriff’s deputy at the Justice Center in West Chester. Curtis had attacked another Sheriff’s deputy with a knife causing injury to deputy’s arm and wrist.
Curtis was also involved in a March incident for climbing the White House wall in Washington, DC.
PHILADELPHIA, PA — HitchBOT is… was a hitchhiking robot from Port Credit, Ontario. HitchBOT traveled over 10,000 km in Canada from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Victoria, British Columbia. “We want to see what people do with this kind of technology when we leave it up to them,” Frauke Zeller, one of the creators and an assistant professor in professional communication at Toronto’s Ryerson University, told the AP. “It’s an art project in the wild — it invites people to participate.”
But, after only two weeks traveling in the USA, HitchBOT was vandalized and destroyed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The HitchBOT team has issued a statement:
Oh dear, my body was damaged, but I live on back home and with all my friends. I guess sometimes bad things happen to good robots! My trip must come to an end for now, but my love for humans will never fade. Thank you to all my friends.
A message from the family:
hitchBOT’s trip came to an end last night in Philadelphia after having spent a little over two weeks hitchhiking and visiting sites in Boston, Salem, Gloucester, Marblehead, and New York City. Unfortunately, hitchBOT was vandalized overnight in Philadelphia; sometimes bad things happen to good robots. We know that many of hitchBOT’s fans will be disappointed, but we want them to be assured that this great experiment is not over. For now we will focus on the question “what can be learned from this?” and explore future adventures for robots and humans.
We have no interest in pressing charges or finding the people who vandalized hitchBOT; we wish to remember the good times, and we encourage hitchBOT’s friends and fans to do the same.