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Woman arrested after blocking delivery robot in Center City Philadelphia

https://6abc.com/post/woman-arrested-blocking-delivery-robot-center-city-philadelphia-confrontation/19941323/
39•snarky-comments•1h ago

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2OEH8eoCRo0•48m ago
Civil disobedience
scun•45m ago
"disorderly conduct"
anikan_vader•45m ago
Arrested for refusing to yield to a motor vehicle on a public sidewalk? Curious to see if they can find any jury in the land that won’t laugh this one out…
daeken•40m ago
No, she was arrested for disobeying police orders. But whether they're lawful orders or not is a different matter; strongly suspect that if this went to trial, she'd have a decent 1st amendment argument, which is why it won't go to trial. (ACAB, but also this is a pretty standard part of civil disobedience -- getting arrested is just part and parcel, for better and worse.)
bentobean•37m ago
ACAB?
15feetOfclay•35m ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACAB
peab•34m ago
"all cops are bad cops" - an idiotic leftist acronym, a remnant from the BLM days
defrost•32m ago
ACAB & ACAC both span multiple english speaking countries, predate BLM days by at least three or four decades, and are hardly idiotic in the face of documented abuses of power by rotten apples, coupled with tacit acceptance of the bad ones by their wider fraternity.
margalabargala•30m ago
That's not actually what it stands for...
throwitaway222•6m ago
you sure about that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACAB
15feetOfclay
smallerize•44m ago
I would be surprised if these robots were taking many jobs. Aren't they mostly piloted by people?
wnevets•42m ago
> Aren't they mostly piloted by people?

In which country? People normally consider outsourcing to a cheaper country as taking jobs.

majormajor•34m ago
Second-hand info, but: I've heard humans only take control when the system flags that they're stuck.
snarky-comments•26m ago
Stuck or blocked by some first amendment disorderly protestor type
tintor•21m ago
Yes, by offshore teleop pilots from low wage countries. They are still taking local jobs.

Those kinds of robots should never be allowed on sidewalks.

left-struck•43m ago
The police only helped her cause by arresting her I imagine.
jimmaswell•26m ago
Her "cause" of making everyone's lives worse by delaying food delivery? Why would I ever support this?
nickthegreek•17m ago
The food delivery vehicle was on the pedestrian path where the pedestrian wanted to be. Why didn’t it turn around and go another way? That is what peole do when sidewalks are jammed up by whatever event might be happening. Was she following it around and blocking it from every direction? Making contact in any way? Go back across the street and get on with it.
antonvs•10m ago
You might support it if you were a food delivery worker, or someone else whose jobs are at immediate risk from automation. Or if you had any empathy for those people.
sublinear•24m ago
Is this the new "dog bites man"?
zer00eyz•22m ago
Never change Philly... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HitchBOT

I have to wonder if in the long term this bot is an uber product or a restaurant owned product.

waltbosz•19m ago
What happens if you place something on the top of one of these things? I'm imagining a second robot that sits atop and sprays silly sting at pedestrians it detects. Or one with an air horn that goes of randomly. or one that attaches to the side at the bottom and uses a series of spray chalk guns to dot matrix messages into the sidewalk. :p
ai-x•14m ago
So, she is protesting against People having their food delivered to them?
antonvs•12m ago
FTA:

> ... she was protesting the use of delivery robots because she believes they are replacing human workers.

sammy2255•7m ago
What is the charge?
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24m ago
Interestingly, it isn't strictly "leftist". In fact it was used by both racist and anti-racist skinheads.
tintor•23m ago
All Cats Are Beautiful
derektank•18m ago
I don’t know why you think she’d have a 1st amendment case; intentionally obstructing public passages is a crime in PA. Time, use, and manner restrictions are widely understood to be constitutional as long as they are content neutral and do not restrict expression. If she was following behind or in front of the robot with a sign, that would be one thing, but intentionally blocking someone or something almost certainly does not constitute protected speech in itself.
zamalek•12m ago
> But whether they're lawful orders or not is a different matter; strongly suspect that if this went to trial

Right: you win arguments against cops in court, not on the street.

Unless you're in your home, and they don't have a warrant.

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Woman arrested after blocking delivery robot in Center City Philadelphia

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