Sites where you can review/rate just about anything are all the rage these days. I like the tagline for RateMyCop.com: "You have the right to remain informed." Despite the catchy name, I found the data didn’t run very deep in our area. Seattle had listings for over 1,200 officers but smaller towns resulted in a list of no officers being listed. 

But what if the officers in your area are overwhelmed with cleaning up the city? Do you believe in vigilante justice? A bar owner who turned a BBQ smoker into ‘Robocop’ seems to, at least in part:

It’s a barbecue smoker mounted on a three-wheeled scooter, and armed with an infrared camera, spotlight, loudspeaker and aluminum water cannon that shoots a stream of icy water about 20 feet.

The city is saying if his creation actually hits people it’s "assault" but it sounds like he’s using it to just spook away the drug dealers who probably don’t want to be caught on camera. As for using it to spray the homeless to make them move along, I hope Robosmokercop isn’t being used that way.

Maybe he should take it a step further and let people on the internet control the voice of Robosmokercop (not the water cannon). It would be cool to have it be able to play Charles Bronson lines from Death Wish. Or maybe Yul Bryner’s classic line from Westworld: “Drawww.”