I love the Roomba. Not because they actually work, mind you. Actually, mostly because of a strip from Achewood, where cats re-enacted famous scenes from films on them, then Roomba’ed away at the end of the strip. Apparently, though, Roombas have another useful function: they kill deadly snakes.
One of my old roommates had a Roomba that he ran. Not really because it worked, mostly for the conversation, because our floor still managed to wind up looking dirtier than a whore’s taint. Also, it gives you hipster points.
Apparently, world-wide the Roomba has quite a reputation, as well. Because they sell them in the Middle East. You know what else they have in the Middle East? Deadly snakes.
In Israel, snakes may be one of the only things threatening the lives of the people in the day-to-day. So when Efi Frida decided to buy a Roomba and run it to clean up after their kids and small children, he never expected it to suck up the deadly viper, Vipera palaestinae. But he was understandably happy, as he told the newspaper Yediot Acharonot.
“We were very lucky. If the snake would’ve hid in the house and bitten one of the children it could have ended badly.”
Nobody wants dead kids. Especially the people at iRobot, who, after hearing the story, sent the man’s family a remote control.
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