While the Japanese continue to push the boundaries of robotics, some guy in Atlanta felt the urge to take matters into his own hands and build a weird little remote-control Robocop out of a BBQ grille and water gun (I’m so happy I’m not making this up) because the city, like every other modern American metropolis, is effed up.

Terrill is chasing out unsavory-looking characters from a street corner that resembles a drug dealer’s dream at night. More than 20 suspicious people were seen huddling in the dark in the front driveway and side parking lot on this night. Some were seen openly making drug deals.

But during the day, it’s where young children frolic on a nearby playground at a the Beacon of Light Daycare Center in downtown Atlanta. It has become a nightmare for day care operator Lydia Meredith.

“This whole square is enveloped with homeless people and drug dealers, defecating, urinating, prostituting — the whole nine yards. And the overflow of that behavior, we get to cleanup every morning,” she says.

Although, as awesome as having a crime-fighting robot is, personally I tend to side with this lady:

Anita Beatty, the director of the shelter, is suspicious of the barbecue-smoker robot. “I just think the whole ‘Robocop’ spraying people is a little freaky. We really need some police protection in this neighborhood. I think it’s confusing the issue. I think the issue is homeless people. They are being confused with the folks who prey on them and sell them drugs,” she says.

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