Lee Duna to NewsEnglish • 7 months agoTexas’s San Antonio airport will get a 420lb autonomous security robotwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up194arrow-down13cross-posted to: texas
arrow-up191arrow-down1external-linkTexas’s San Antonio airport will get a 420lb autonomous security robotwww.theguardian.comLee Duna to NewsEnglish • 7 months agomessage-square18fedilinkcross-posted to: texas
minus-squareRayspektlinkfedilink21•7 months agoOut of all features a security robot may possess, why is the weight the thing that gets to be in the headline? Why not its colour or maybe taste? “That security robot is serious business, it’s got to be at least 30 stone heavy!” says Bob the Burglar who doesn’t even use metric units.
minus-square@ProfessorProteuslinkEnglish8•7 months agoMy guess is that the “420” part was so funny the writer just had to put it in the headline
Out of all features a security robot may possess, why is the weight the thing that gets to be in the headline? Why not its colour or maybe taste?
“That security robot is serious business, it’s got to be at least 30 stone heavy!” says Bob the Burglar who doesn’t even use metric units.
My guess is that the “420” part was so funny the writer just had to put it in the headline