Barbecue smoker turned into Robocop

If I were a BBQ smoker and my meat smoking days were over what would my next job choice be? Robocop of course!

An Atlanta bar owner Rufus Terrill patrols his neighborhood with something he calls “Bum-bot.” Although other folks in his neighborhood call it “Robocop.”Terrill owns a friendly Irish Pub called O’Terrill’s.

Mr. Terrill’s creation is actually a barbecue smoker mounted on a three-wheeled scooter, and armed with an infrared camera, spotlight, loudspeaker and aluminum water cannon that shoots a stream of water about 20 feet.

This ingenius invention operates via remote control as Rufus tries to root out tresspassers on his private property. The tresspassers are usually bums, druggies, prostitutes and other degenerates who pretty much get annoyed and move along when “Bum-bot” rolls along. The more difficult tresspassers get a dose of a spotlight in their eyes and a shot of cold water which usually does the trick.

It’s indeed a sad situation where these homeless people and drug dealers are urinating, defecating and making a mess of an area that is used as a playground during the day for children. They have even found used syringes and condoms onto the playground.

Folks in Mr. Terrill’s neighborhood call him a vigilante and “Praise God” for his courage.

Atlanta police patrol the area, however it is too difficult for them to stay on top of the large amount of people who roam the streets in that area at night.

Rufus says to the homeless druggies: “If you’re throwing condoms out on the side of the playground, if you’re throwing needles, you’re throwing crack pipes out there, I’m not going to let those kids be out there like that. I’m going to stop you.”

For that I say good for him! We need more people like Rufus Terrill in our neighborhoods that don’t just settle for what the police say that they cannot do about a particular problem.

Even thought that BBQ smoker isn’t cooking anymore, it’s still being put to great use.