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Bum Bot: Future of Crime-Fighting?

Atlanta bar owner Rufus Terrill has come up with a new way to discourage people from loitering around his Irish pub -- the Bum Bot.&...

Atlanta bar owner Rufus Terrill has come up with a new way to discourage people from loitering around his Irish pub -- the Bum Bot.  It's a homemade robot contraption that sprays "bums" with a stream of water to keep them from congregating around Terrill's bar.

Oh, and Terrill wants to parlay the popularity of the Bum Bot into a run for mayor.  Presumably, it would be Terrill who's running for mayor, not the robot.  Although...

Zach Patton -- Executive Editor. Zach joined GOVERNING as a staff writer in 2004. He received the 2011 Jesse H. Neal Award for Outstanding Journalism
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