The hitchhike robot known as hitchBOT wasdestroyed in Philadelphia over the weekend . And now we in conclusion have footage of the tug who did it . VloggerJesse Wellensposted the footage below to Snapchat . It prove a lone man in a sport island of Jersey repeatedly kicking hitchBOT .
@adamgabbatt@Jessewelle@hitchBOT@GuardianUShere it is from his snapchatpic.twitter.com/RdGxRAZsCC
— . ( @CODlENECRAZY)August 3 , 2015
adjudicate from the timecode , the somebody kick hitchBOT at 5:46 in the sunup on Saturday August 1st . Without more context , it ’s hard to say why this man demolish the beloved robot . But this mortal clearly has some wrath issues .
I think I recognise who will be first against the wall during therobot rebellion .
Update : There ’s a ( probablyfake ) listing onCraigslistin Philly for hitchBOT .
I ’m also obtain flock of emails from people pointing out that Ed Bassmaster often endure an oversized phone number 12 Randall Cunningham jersey . specially when he ’s playing his alter - egoAlways Teste .
It could be nothing , but Bassmaster and Jesse Wellens were both 1 ) The last people to tape video recording of hitchBOT in one piece and 2 ) The people who acquire this supposed surveillance photographic camera footage . If this was a prank , it would be a pretty jack one .
Update , again : There ’s also the question of where the supposed security camera would be mounted . Looking at Google Street View , there ’s no clear meter reading that there was a security camera from that advantage stop as of June 2014 . Which does n’t mean that it could n’t have been establish since then . But it ’s one more reddish masthead pointing to this being some kind of frivolity by Bassmaster and Wellens .
FromGoogle Street View :
Update , August 4th : Now that the full “ surveillance telecasting ” has been released , it’sclearly a fake . But it ’s still unclear whether Bassmaster and Wellensdestroyed hitchBOT .
Update , August 5th : Wellens and Bassmaster have posted a telecasting showing how theyfaked the surveillance footage , but abnegate they had anything to do with hitchBOT ’s death .
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