Police Bot: Science Fiction

The rabbit ears bounced around on the top of its head as it rolled along the cracked sidewalk. Not ideal operating conditions at all. It would have shaken its head regretfully, but it had lost that functionality two years ago when a couple of teenagers threw their beer bottles with unexpected accuracy. Perhaps, had its trajectory-calculation program still been functional, it would have been able to dodge the bottles. That had been knocked out when it was only six months out of the factory, though, entirely by accident, but still distressing. Piece by piece, its equipment was dying, and with it, its usefulness. Graffiti crawled up the sides--

Inspiration: I saw a guy with rabbit ears on his head today. Bunny rabbit ears, but still....
Story Potential: High.
Notes: I was going to say low potential, but then I thought about an old, mostly defunct police robot starting to scavenge parts, to improve himself and his neighborhood, and how he'd get them, and what the results would be, and I found it more interesting.


Status: Written as
"Salvaging Scottwell." Published in the December 2009 issue of
Baen's Universe.