May 23, 2002

I thought I'd follow up on the Begbot situation, as we haven't heard from Sgt. Berrau in a longwhile. It's too bad. He's in hospital, they tried to play Ratt's "Lovin You's a Dirty Job" which I guess also causes probs with the bot. As an addition to what Dr 16 said, just stay away from the Ratt in general, there's something about that music! (We should test this further.)

They did lure the bot out but lost track of it during a confusing mishap. Anyway we're putting together a team to help them with it.

Posted by Maggie Q at 12:32 PM

May 09, 2002

Great God, I wish I'd seen this message sooner. I apologize. I've been working very, very long hours under the worst conditions imaginable. I only hope I'm not too late. Read carefully the following:

DO NOT PLAY "Fallen Angel" or "Nothin' But A Good Time" by Poison, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. Do not play "Give It All" by Ratt, nor anything off of the album "Dancin' Undercover". AND UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you play "Poison Angel" by Winger. Having said that, the glam rock technique may be effective.

Also, the BEG9 uses a text-recognition system when targeting places to beg, and should only target pizza stores with "2 for 1" or pizza twin specials. Often, simply changing in-store signage can discourage a BEG9 -- presumably, even one entrenched for weeks in one area.

Unfortunately most pizza store locations are unwilling to risk losing sales, due to lack of volume-to-cost-ratio promotional material, at the store level.

Good Luck!

Posted by Dr. Sixteen at 04:03 AM

May 02, 2002

Hey Sgt. - hope you've had more luck with the begbot. One thing you could try is to play some glam rock. A side effect of the aggression programming was that the bots respond warmly to Twisted Sister, Def Leppard etc. If I were you I would mount a radio on something strong, like a tank, and drive away with the bot following.

Believe me we'd come get it ourselves except that one's all messed up. We're trying to figure out what happened

Posted by Maggie Q at 12:22 PM