You can tell the people in here thinking it's ok to retaliate like that are people that live alone with cats or in their parents basement with cats. I have cats and children. Y'all this isn't the way to go about this.
this post was submitted on 25 Apr 2025
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"If your mother doesn't teach you manners, the world will." My friend from Kenya told me it's an old proverb where he's from.
If my kid did that, I'd let you splash them again.
Truly cannot conceive of any other appropriate response. My kid's an asshole sometimes, better he get gentle lessons now.
ESH. Kid shouldn't have done it, but also the lady shouldn't let the cat outside
I just assumed she might be British due to spelling/tone. Cats have been around here for about 1,600 years and it's considered fairly normal to let them out.
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I’ll take things that never happened for 200$
Dollars two hundred.
Yes, no 10 year-old ever threw water at a cat.
If my neighbor did ANYTHING to my pets, they'd be lucky to only get sprayed with water.
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My neighbors daughter had one of those water guns. I told her if she shoots at me, I'll get the hose and retaliate. She grinned, shot at me, and ran away laughing.
I talked to her dad, he nodded, and when she came back for more mischief, she got wet.
If it was funny to do it to the Cat.... It was hilarious doing it to the kid.
Can confirm.
I have a robot that clears snow on my driveway (it’s a diy build,). One winter, we were having problems with a couple teenage boys chucking snowballs at cars.
Their dads conspired to teach them a lesson.
They recruited me and S5-SY (the robot, pronounced “Sassy”,).
So they played some mind games to get the kids to think it was their idea to record themselves-live- chucking snowballs at the “defenseless” robot.
In the video, the robot turned to face them, drove itself into the snow bank and turned on its sweeper to give them the worst white wash of their lives.
I'm sorry, you can't just say "I built a robot that clears snow", like it's no big deal! Do you have more details? Also, please link the video of it blizzarding the teens!
I don't have the video (and wouldn't link other people's kids anyhow.), sorry.
In any case, I'd drop a how-to, except that it's actually rather kludgey. just getting a driveway dialed in took about two weeks. (movement is largely dead reckoning in similar manner to using an FDM printer in relative mode.)
her working-side is a snow sweeper brush- you can buy replacement brushes online and not the whole snow sweeper, for the record. the big drum-shaped brushes. she uses a hub-mounted motor to drive that and her two driving wheels. a couple car batteries and and her control box provide counterbalance and mass (for traction,) while her 3rd wheel is a caster wheel.
she uses an inductive charger in a cradle, with everything basically sealed in a water proof enclosure/chasis that was 3d printed.
there's a base station that's mounted high up under the garage's eaves that has a camera deciding when it's time to go out. (she struggles with heavy, wet, snow, but this gets compensated for by going out more often when it's warmer. the base station also provides localization and object avoidance.
building was simple enough. I've a giant home-build 3d printer, PETG works, Polycarb is better if you can afford it. For sealing the enclosures, I made my own silicone rubber gaskets using silicone caulk and aquarium tubing (force the caulk into the tubing using the caulking gun. if you want it hollow, use an air compressor blower nozzle to blow out the tubing after it's full, if you want it solid, don't, but after it's cured in the tubing, use the blower nozzle to get it out, either way.)
the other thing to consider is the sweeper arm. It can just be set rigidly for simplicity (and that's a 100% valid and probably smart choice to make...) or if you add the ability to extend on both sides, you can give the brush a cant so it pushes the snow to one side or the other... reducing how many trails you leave.
Some flashy lights are important (and raised up so people can see them in cars!)
Oh. also. she hums like R2D2 when she's working.
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