Good morning everyone. This is your Crazy Strange News Episode forty five news bite with Mixed Strange first upover futurism dot com delivery robot damages car, fleas scene of accident and what could possibly be a world's first. A pedestrian in Finland's capital, Helsinki caught a food delivery robot perpetrating an apparent hit and run. The passerby, who was interviewed by finished news outlet YE, saw an s Group food delivery robot as it slid off an ice and snow covered sidewalk, damaging a car in the process. Then it lurched back and forth against the side of the car with the safety flag happily waving. The pedestrian recalled scratching both doors. Instead of calling the authorities and admitting to scratching up someone's vehicle. The six wheeled robot took off and fled the scene as soon as a passenger placed it back onto the road. It is yet another instance of delivery robots causing mayhem on public streets, from getting lost in the woods and being implicated in a bomb threat to plowing through a crime scene. According to Ye, both of the car's doors were damaged. I notified the emergency center about a traffic accident. The good samaritan told the outlet the business like but amused emergency operators said he would notify the police. The police called, asked for identification and said that this incident was a first s group. Finland's foods store chaines Carpat teamed up with Starship Technologies, one of the biggest delivery robot companies last year. Customers can access the service via a smartphone app. The company is now investigating the incident. Hopefully it'll catch the culprit and bring it to justice. Up next. New York Police Department fires useless robot. Last fall, the New York City Police Department deployed a robot DUBK five at the highly trafficked forty second Street subway station in Times Square. The four hundred pound five foot three automatron, built by Silicone Valley based startup nights Scope, imediately stood out like a sore throat thumb and New Yorker's dismissing it for being unable to do well cop things cop things. Worst yet, it required several officers to babysit it at all times and was foiled by the mere existence of stairs, making it a useless nuisance with no clear upside. Roughly four months later, K five has officially been retired, as The New York Times reports, and is now gathering dust and I forgotten part of one of the city's busiest subway stations. And considering the way people are talking about what was meant to be the latest and the greatest in law enforcement, at least according to Mayor Eric Adams, buffoon, it never rose above being the butt of endless jokes. It also, excuse me, it's also a glaring example of law enforcement using public funds to invest in dubious technology while firing staff. We're looking at you, New York Police Department robot dog. Did they actually have one? Oh my goodness, I thought that was a joke. Hilariously, K five's retirement has come as a relief to pretty much all parties involved, with one New York Police Department officer claiming he didn't want to be responsible for it. Per The New York Times, I described it as a trash can on wheels, but it looks like the wheels aren't even working at this point. Executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight project Albert Fox can't con told the newspaper it was a mouthful. The NYPD envisioned having the robot deter crime by simply existing and communicating with anybody feeling unsafe. This is below minimum wage, Adams said during a September announcement. No bathroom breaks, no mule breaks. This is a good investment, said the idiot. But the robot ended up being far more of a headache than an extra pair of eyes. Who cared for who? One construction worker who watched two officers accompanying the robot told The New York Times the robot for the police or the police for the robot. All right, that's it for your news bite for the day. I've been mixed strange, five star rate in review. Wherever you catch your podcasts, have a safe and wonderful day. Peace out, everybody, assassa
