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Just found this out online and its somewhat of a sad story. In short, a Canadian couple made a social experiment called HitchBOT.  
 
HitchBOT, a small homemade robot about the size of a child, was sent on a cross country trip. Fitted with a GPS and able to take a picture every 20 seconds, HitchBOT managed to see many things across Canada.  
 
Sadly, shortly after beginning its journey, HitchBOT was found by somebody (identity currently unknown) and was violently beaten to an end where he was nonfunctional.  
 
People have written the creators and offered moral support and even donations to help repair it or replace it. HitchBOT had actually made itself across Canada and even made it to Europe somehow, and then back to North America where it was seen at a Baseball Game before meeting its end.  
 
Links for more information are:  
 
http://globalnews.ca/news/2143851/canadian-hitchhiking-robot-destroyed-on-trip-across-us/?hootPostID=a08fed12e37c1e425babfa849ec15419  
 
https://ca.screen.yahoo.com/editor-s-picks/hitchbots-last-moments-124141897.html  
 
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Edited by IMO, 2015-08-05 23:16:59

experiment of finding out how unknown people behave to one another.Hitchbot travelled all across Canada and some areas of Europe.He met the wrong ride in Philadelphia and was terminated.It was an experiment and seems to me that it was somewhat successful in showing how people interact.Conclusion: Hitchhiking can be very dangerous.

A lot of people in Philly are very upset & have banded together to fix him....

Its interesting how 1 person's actions can be combated by a group of others banding together.  
 
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Happen to catch any pictures of who did it? I'm not sure if the photos were accessible remotely or not. It makes me sad that some people feel the right to ruin things they have nothing to do with.

wild_roses said "Happen to catch any pictures of who did it? I'm not sure if the photos were accessible remotely or not. It makes me sad that some people feel the right to ruin things they have nothing to do with. "

I have lived with people and even dated people who have done this. Some people have a false sense of entitlement and lack the human decency to respect the property of others.  
 
From what I gather, thus far they have no solid leads. The do have a video (link posted) of somebody [i] putting the boots [/i] so to speak to the poor little guy behind a garbage can. Although it may seem pointless to some, this is nothing more than an act of cowardice because the person is clearly hiding as they do it. It was a simplistic social experiment that some childish individual did for no apparent reason.  
 
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