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I hate doing housework and I remember when the Roomba was released and I thought it was the answer to my problems. Then I saw the price and decided it was never going to happen and moved on.
In case you don't know what a Roomba is, it's a robot vacuum cleaner, which you can set to clean up while you're at work or in bed or whatever and they're pretty amazing, unless some dog shit gets in the way.
That's what happened to Jesse Newton, who lives in the US, and he decided to share the story with the rest of the world. He was first alerted to the fact something had gone wrong when his little boy got into his bed with him and smelled a lot like dog shit. He had to clean the kid, put him back to bed and then go and investigate.
He posted a warning about not letting your Roomba come into contact with poop on his Facebook page: "Because if that happens, it will spread the dog poop over every conceivable surface within its reach. It will be on your floorboards. It will be on your furniture legs. It will be on your carpets. It will be on your rugs. It will be on your kids' toy boxes. If it's near the floor, it will have poop on it. Those awesome wheels, which have a checked surface for better traction, left 25-foot poop trails all over the house."
He then spent the rest of the night cleaning up the shit, which was made by his puppy that he'd forgotten to let out that evening, and cleaning the Roomba.
In his hurry to get the Roomba spic and span, he submerged its parts in water, breaking it. Luckily he has a warranty and will have his automatic shit-spreader back in no time.
Isn't technology amazing?
Words by Claire Reid
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