by Tdarcos » Mon Jun 16, 2014 9:06 pm
pinback wrote:AArdvark wrote:Can the enemy robot climb stairs this time?
Poor ED-209.
That brings up a really stupid thing from the original. What kind of a brain-dead moron puts
live ammo in a device being operated for testing purposes in a
civilian environment?
When they did a demo of a LAWS rocket in one of the Dirty Harry films, they did it out at the army firing range, not in a barracks or at the police headquarters. You don't have a live-fire exercise in a place where there could be civilian casualties. If nothing else, that's also a violation of the Geneva Convention, which would constitute a death-penalty eligible war crime.
At a minimum, the Chairman shouldn't have said he was disappointed in Dick Jones, he should have fired his ass on the spot. A killed executive - the guy who got shot full of holes - with a family qualifies for his pension, worker's compensation, death benefits and probably a multi-million dollar wrongful death suit. Dick Jones' fuckup in having the ED-209 loaded with live ammo should have cost him his job plus probably an indictment for, at a minimum, involuntary manslaughter.
Further, when the thing went haywire, the technicians realized how serious it was, didn't any of them say anything about loading a military weapon inside a building with expensive-to-kill civilians (as opposed to cheap-to-kill soldiers or free-to-kill enemy combatants)?
Jones cost the company money, a lot of money, and if nothing else, their insurers would be demanding someone go to jail.
[quote="pinback"][quote="AArdvark"]Can the enemy robot climb stairs this time?[/quote]
Poor ED-209.[/quote]
That brings up a really stupid thing from the original. What kind of a brain-dead moron puts [i]live ammo[/i] in a device being operated for testing purposes in a [i]civilian[/i] environment?
When they did a demo of a LAWS rocket in one of the Dirty Harry films, they did it out at the army firing range, not in a barracks or at the police headquarters. You don't have a live-fire exercise in a place where there could be civilian casualties. If nothing else, that's also a violation of the Geneva Convention, which would constitute a death-penalty eligible war crime.
At a minimum, the Chairman shouldn't have said he was disappointed in Dick Jones, he should have fired his ass on the spot. A killed executive - the guy who got shot full of holes - with a family qualifies for his pension, worker's compensation, death benefits and probably a multi-million dollar wrongful death suit. Dick Jones' fuckup in having the ED-209 loaded with live ammo should have cost him his job plus probably an indictment for, at a minimum, involuntary manslaughter.
Further, when the thing went haywire, the technicians realized how serious it was, didn't any of them say anything about loading a military weapon inside a building with expensive-to-kill civilians (as opposed to cheap-to-kill soldiers or free-to-kill enemy combatants)?
Jones cost the company money, a lot of money, and if nothing else, their insurers would be demanding someone go to jail.