[TheBagman]

Man, 81, kills himself with shot from 'suicide robot' - Times Online

An elderly man has killed himself by programming a robot to shoot him in the head after building the machine from plans downloaded from the internet.

Francis Tovey, 81, who lived alone in Burleigh Heads on the Australian Gold Coast, was found dead in his driveway.

According to the Gold Coast Bulletin, he had been unhappy about the demands of relatives living elsewhere in Australia that he should move out of his home and into care.

Notes left by Mr Tovey — who was born in England — revealed that he had scoured the internet for plans before constructing his complex machine, which involved a jigsaw power tool and was connected to a .22 semi-automatic pistol loaded with four bullets. It could fire multiple shots once triggered remotely.
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At 7am on Tuesday he set the robot up in the driveway of his £450,000 house and activated it.

His notes suggested that Mr Tovey chose to kill himself in the driveway because he knew there were workmen building a new house next door who would find his body.

The scheme worked, as carpenter Daniel Skewes heard gunshots and ran to Mr Tovey's home. "I thought I heard three shots and when we ran next door he was lying on the driveway with gunshot wounds to the head," Mr Skewes told the GCB.

A neighbour, who did not want to be named, told the newspaper that Mr Tovey had lived at his home on Gabrielle Grove since 1984. "He was a really marvellous man, an ideal neighbour and I will miss him greatly," she said.

"He was born in England, like I was, and we used to enjoy our tea together. He had visitors from England and family interstate from somewhere far away in Australia.

"There was no inkling of anything amiss, it is just very sad."

[taco]

And it begins...

[elroypornlab]

That's probably the coolest way to off you self

[Mr Skinner]

Anyone got the website for that robot?

[Gag]

I read up a suicide plan online, and it's pretty flaweless.
I forget how it goes exactly, but you get a bungee cord or what have you, tie it to your feet, and connect the other end of it to the top of whatever you're jumping from, and super glue your hands to the side of your head.
Then you take a wire (well, before the superglue), wrap it around your neck, and connect the other end of the wire to the top of whatever you're jumping from, so when you're flying towards the ground, soon as the wire tightens, off goes your head, and you end up dangling upside down with your head in your hands.

I want to kill myself doing that, preferably right infront of an elementary school, and I'll jump as soon as I hear the bell go off, that way I'd traumatize the maximum number of children.

But suicide robot is probably the second coolest way going.

[ßü††|맧]

How many more jobs must be out sourced to machines before this all stops.

[Slutter McGee]

This all seems anti-climatic after watching the Terminator movies. I was expecting more.

Sincerely,

Slutter McGee

[NME]

Originally Posted by Gag

I read up a suicide plan online, and it's pretty flaweless.
I forget how it goes exactly, but you get a bungee cord or what have you, tie it to your feet, and connect the other end of it to the top of whatever you're jumping from, and super glue your hands to the side of your head.
Then you take a wire (well, before the superglue), wrap it around your neck, and connect the other end of the wire to the top of whatever you're jumping from, so when you're flying towards the ground, soon as the wire tightens, off goes your head, and you end up dangling upside down with your head in your hands.

I want to kill myself doing that, preferably right infront of an elementary school, and I'll jump as soon as I hear the bell go off, that way I'd traumatize the maximum number of children.

But suicide robot is probably the second coolest way going.

wow just you quoted what you read from maddox.

Fucking kill yourself.

[Slutter McGee]

Originally Posted by NME

wow just you quoted what you read from maddox.

Fucking kill yourself.

Maddox sucks. His early stuff was funny, back when he mixed actual wit with his blatant sarcasm. His newer stuff, as in the last 4 years, fucking sucks. Anyone can fucking bitch about anything and everything.

Sincerely,

Slutter McGee

[Gag]

Originally Posted by NME

wow just you quoted what you read from maddox.

Fucking kill yourself.

Quoted? That'd be quite the fucking coincidence, seeing as to how I worded that on my own, thank you very much.

And I did say at the start of the post I read it online somewheres. Never claimed originality.

However, the bit about traumatizing the school children was my own genius.