Okay, Who Left Their Robot Out?

The news: Police in Denver rerouted rush hour traffic for hours and called in the bomb squad to handle a little toy robot. The conversation at home: “Kids, if we’ve told you once, we’ve told you a thousand times: Make sure you put your toy robot away. “All right, very funny: Who cemented their toy […]
Toy Robot on Bridge

The news: Police in Denver rerouted rush hour traffic for hours and called in the bomb squad to handle a little toy robot.

The conversation at home:

"Kids, if we've told you once, we've told you a thousand times: Make sure you put your toy robot away.

"All right, very funny: Who cemented their toy robot to the foot of a bridge? Their super-menacing 8-inch-tall robot? You __know __how it scares the dog.

"Oh, I'll __make __a federal case of it — I'll call in the bomb squad . . . "

(Via William Gibson on Twitter)