Killer Robot shoots Man Dead in Driveway

[hntbarbie]

AN 81-year-old man has shot himself dead with an elaborate suicide robot built using plans downloaded from the internet.

The Gold Coast man, who lived alone, left notes of his plans and thoughts as he struggled to come to terms with demands by interstate relatives that he move out his home and into care.

He spent hours searching the internet for a way to kill himself, downloaded what he needed and then built a complex machine that would remotely fire a gun.

He set the device up in his driveway about 7am yesterday, placed himself in front of it and set it in motion.

His notes explained that he chose the driveway as he knew there were tradesmen working next door who would find his body. The plan worked as the workmen heard the gunshots and ran to investigate.

The machine was attached to a .22 semi-automatic pistol loaded with four bullets.

It was able to fire multiple shots into the man's head after he activated it.



Damn, he's going to take Dr. Kevorkian's job away!!

[mommysalomi]

Um yeah sounds to me like he needed help living so he needed to move..yeah..Im thinkin he had some relative that wanted his house..Im sure if he could build this robot and write a note and yada yada he was deffinatly able to care for himself with basic needs...

I guess that'll teach his family ....

[Layni]

I knew a lady like that back when I was 19, her whole family gold diggers. She was the sweetest person too, she would always say- "they're waiting for me to kick the bucket to get my money" Which was true. When she died, she had already prepaid funeral costs, she had her lawyer gather her whole family around, and friends (me included) when they read that she had left her house to habitat for hummanity and her money to St Jude's, her family almost shit themselves. I was laughing so hard I had to excuse myself from the room. I bet she was laughing too.