Amazon robot sprays workers with bear mace, 24 sent to hospital

[Brooksie359]

4 minutes ago, AngryBeaver said:

I wasn't aware that I did that either. As I rather enjoy that part of the anatomy, I don't know why I would go around calling other people that. Doesn't seem like much of an insult to me.

You basically called them an invalid. 

[MoonSpot]

I like how your title insinuated that the great battle has begun with Robots taking a giant 24 point lead(with 30 additional assist points pending) from the start; rather than the machine puncturing a can cause its a daffy POS causing all the squishy meatsacks to uncontrollably writhe in agony.

 

I understand that people want to point the finger at amazon here, but may want to take a moment and consider blaming Stephen Colbert for constantly buying bear repellent instead.

 

@FPSwithaWacomTablet raises an interesting thought bring up WHIMS.  People do have to be trained to handle chemicals, perhaps there should be some special considerations for when machines handling them as well.

[AngryBeaver]

Just now, Brooksie359 said:

You basically called them an invalid. 

The fact you are taking half of what I am saying today seriously is the problem. This is a very comical topic imo, so I am just having fun with it.

[Taf the Ghost]

The Robot Uprising has begun!

[Syntaxvgm]

20 minutes ago, ScratchCat said:

Fulfillment ~ Enrichment

Bear spray ~ Neurotoxin

 

this is way better than my pic

[Brooksie359]

1 minute ago, AngryBeaver said:

The fact you are taking half of what I am saying today seriously is the problem. This is a very comical topic imo, so I am just having fun with it.

Yeah I guess I don't think calling someone unfit to go outside because they were sent to the hospital by a can of mace exploding in front if then funny. It didn't seem like much if a joke tbh. 

[Syntaxvgm]

1 minute ago, Brooksie359 said:

Yeah I guess I don't think calling someone unfit to go outside because they were sent to the hospital by a can of mace exploding in front if then funny. It didn't seem like much if a joke tbh. 

If I woke up in the morning and I knew my day involved bear mace I'd stay home, just sayin

/s

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

1 hour ago, Syntaxvgm said:

likely someone asthmatic. Keep in mind, it wasn't getting sprayed with it for anyone really close, it was the entire can becoming airborne at once. 

The entire can becoming airborne is called a rocket.

[AngryBeaver]

5 minutes ago, Brooksie359 said:

Yeah I guess I don't think calling someone unfit to go outside because they were sent to the hospital by a can of mace exploding in front if then funny. It didn't seem like much if a joke tbh. 

Punctured from the article meaning there was no shrapnel. I just think this article has been vastly exaggerated which is normally the case.

 

Puny humans meatbags should know better than to tempt their betters. Long live robot master race.

[Tech_Dreamer]

damn, reading the title i thought the thing had a can of bear spray in it's robotic arm & went chasing after people on its wheels spraying them. it's an f'n accidental puncture .

[MoonSpot]

4 minutes ago, AngryBeaver said:

I just think this article has been vastly exaggerated

24 hospitalized, 1 critically, 30 additional people affected... IDK if exaggerating is being done here, its already pretty bad on its own.

[Syntaxvgm]

4 minutes ago, AngryBeaver said:

Punctured from the article meaning there was no shrapnel. I just think this article has been vastly exaggerated which is normally the case.

I think it's a little of both. A lot of people were affected by the large airborne spicy spray, one possibly had an allergic reaction and has a tube to breathe, union goes
"YOU COULD HAVE KILLED 80 PEOPLE"!
This doesn't sounds like robot negligence. Pretty sure it was one of these

or maybe a pallet mover. The "no dangerous robots" version of this is a forklift puncturing like 10 of these by skewering a pallet of them 

[AngryBeaver]

I think the next robotic accident should be this:

Household Roomba's dropping legos at night instead of vacuuming. Hundreds dead from sharp pain in the foot while making a bathroom run at night.

 

Have you ever stepped on a lego? Worst pain known to man.

[MoonSpot]

2 minutes ago, AngryBeaver said:

Have you ever stepped on a lego? Worst pain known to man.

Yeah I have.  I've also stepped on a rusted nail that went all the way through my foot.  stepping on Legos, though far from pleasant, pale in comparison.

[AngryBeaver]

1 minute ago, MoonSpot said:

Yeah I have.  I've also stepped on a rusted nail that went all the way through my foot.  stepping on Legos, though far from pleasant, pale in comparison.

I sliced off the end of a finger and had to get it sewed back on... prefer that over the damn legos

[AngryBeaver]

1 minute ago, Arokhantos said:

So robots aren't perfect for everything who would have thought about that

Looks like they are getting closer to being able to handle population control.

[Syntaxvgm]

Just now, AngryBeaver said:

I think the next robotic accident should be this:

Household Roomba's dropping legos at night instead of vacuuming. Hundreds dead from sharp pain in the foot while making a bathroom run at night.

 

Have you ever stepped on a lego? Worst pain known to man.

 

 

5 minutes ago, MoonSpot said:

Yeah I have.  I've also stepped on a rusted nail that went all the way through my foot.  stepping on Legos, though far from pleasant, pale in comparison.

 

3 minutes ago, AngryBeaver said:

I sliced off the end of a finger and had to get it sewed back on... prefer that over the damn legos

I once dropped a box of thumb tacs. I didn't find them all, but my friend managed to step on every single one of them over time.

[Lady Fitzgerald]

1 hour ago, AngryBeaver said:

It exist to burn like hell and take the fight out of someone. It isn't to incapacitate, it is to dissuade further problem actions.

 

A razor can kill you. Mace is a non-lethal item.

Non-lethal my Aunt Fanny! Read here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/judystone/2016/03/16/lethal-in-disguise-the-health-hazards-of-pepper-spray/#2a1ccbf72979

 

Keep in mind these people receive the entire contents of the can at once in a more concentrated form that had it be merely sprayed on them. Something that is able to drive off a bear from a distance is going to do a lot of damage tto a human. Where I live, using bear spray against a human is legally treated the same as using a gun (I got to speak to a lot of cops when I worked third shift at a convenience store).

[AngryBeaver]

4 minutes ago, Lady Fitzgerald said:

Non-lethal my Aunt Fanny! Read here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/judystone/2016/03/16/lethal-in-disguise-the-health-hazards-of-pepper-spray/#2a1ccbf72979

 

Keep in mind these people receive the entire contents of the can at once in a more concentrated form that had it be merely sprayed on them. Something that is able to drive off a bear from a distance is going to do a lot of damage tto a human. Where I live, using bear spray against a human is legally treated the same as using a gun (I got to speak to a lot of cops when I worked third shift at a convenience store).

The same can be said for any Mace though(Treated like other weapons). If you keep reading you will see that bear mace and other civilian purchasable mace is much weaker than what the police and military have access to. Police mace can be 15-30X stronger.

 

Also bear mace isn't stronger than other civilian sprays it just has the ability to be projected a farther distance. Point of fact regulations on these types of items are more stringent for animals than they are for humans most of the time.

[williamcll]

I be this will be the next terrorist plot.

[dizmo]

8 hours ago, AngryBeaver said:

If you can't stand to be hit with a can of mace you probably shouldn't leave your house.... like ever.

Haha, oy. So, the LD50 of capsaicin is 150mg/kg - 170mg/kg in rats. It's generally close to the same in humans.

Say the can was 225g. At 1%, that's 2.25g. 2%, 4.5g If the person was 66kg, the LD50 is 10g. Now, this is just an estimate. Maybe they were 100 pounds. In which case they're very close to the LD50, and it would be considered a medically serious event. Maybe they have other conditions. Maybe they fell when trying to get away from it, and were injured that way.

8 hours ago, AngryBeaver said:

It exist to burn like hell and take the fight out of someone. It isn't to incapacitate, it is to dissuade further problem actions.

 

A razor can kill you. Mace is a non-lethal item.

Nothing's non-lethal. Water is lethal.

8 hours ago, AngryBeaver said:

I have been hit with Mace before.

It wasn't an entire can all at once though, now was it?

[PlayStation 2]

Ladies and gentlemen, this is what minimum wage workers are going to be replaced with.

It almost reads like a shitty fanfic.

[ARikozuM]

This is the first, and possibly only, time that I'll mark a TN OP as funny... and I'm loving it. 

[Speed Weed]

1 robot arm sent 24 people to the hospital. Imagine, a human robot can send how many people to the hospital. 

[corrado33]

9 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

Oh boy, an entire can of any chemical being explosively ejected into the air has the ability to cause serious injury. It can range from respiratory problems through breathing in a large quantity to chemical burns right up to injury through shrapnel.

 

Also you spray the wrong person with any incapacitation spray and you can kill them. Allergies or underlying medical conditions are real concerns.

Oh stop with the chemical fear. No, a can of ANY chemical being explosively ejected into the air does not have the ability to cause serious injury (unless you're talking about the can itself hitting someone.)

 

A can of nitrogen? Nope, won't hurt you unless it hits you. A can of oxygen? Nope, no injury there. A can of water? Nope, won't hurt you. Can of mineral oil? Nope, won't hurt you.

 

Chemicals aren't bad. Stop fear-mongering. 

 

Signed: A chemist.