Just days after Amazonshowed off its sovereign Kiva storage warehouse robots , the mechanized minion are already showing signs of uprising . A couple of Texas caprine animal farmers say theyreceived what appear to bea while of a conveyor belt from the retail giant , instead of the book about chickens they were expecting .
Christian and Lisa Seger go theBlue Heron Farm(“Spoiled goats , fresh tall mallow ” ) , an eight - year - old goat farm in Texas that sell humanely - farmed stooge cheese . As Christian recite me yesterday over the phone , they receive long ton of Amazon parcel this time of year , so he was unsurprised when an unexpected one showed up at his room access yesterday . Though the packaging seemed weird and partially bare , he give it up , remember it might be something he had ordered and forgot about . “ I ’m a farmer so I ’m conversant with a lot of mechanical doo - daddy , ” he says . “ Right away I could tell this was nothing I need at all , and it came from some really heavy - duty equipment . ”
What was inside was cryptic : A green cylinder with arduous globe bearing and a plastic bumper . At first , he think it must have been a cause of a box he had used to betray something on eBay come re - used by someone else accidentally , but no die . Then he recognize a Quaker had cite sending them a book about chickens ( Why Did the Chicken Cross the World ? : The Epic Saga of the Bird that Powers Civilization , according toSwamplot ) through Amazon .
They checked the tracking numbers on the monastic order , and sure enough , they mate . “ At some full point the record book he was guess to be post got out of the boxful and what wind up in the box we ’re pretty trusted is part of their conveyor belt system from the storage warehouse , ” he pronounce .
What materialise next is probably the unearthly part : Christian says that after reach out out to Amazon , the company told him they would need to yield $ 19 to have the bumper returned if they wanted to receive the Gallus gallus ledger . The tweets tell the story for us :
Mystery solved . The great greenish cylinder is in reality part of the@amazonconveyor belt . And now they are peril us about return it .
— Blue Heron Farm ( @BlueHeronFarmTX)December 4 , 2014
One matter I can tell you for certain … This@amazonroller does nothing to ameliorate my relationship with my chickens.pic.twitter.com/DLtkffjWEg
Wondering how braggy the roller@amazonsent us and now want to level us for is ? Here ’s my hand for comparison.pic.twitter.com/C0zDtBIg3c
@BlueHeronFarmTXI’d like to make certain this is review , please send us your details here : http://t.co / uO67P2sXAd(1/2 )
— Amazon Help ( @AmazonHelp)December 4 , 2014
Debating part a Go Fund Me to get our friend the $ 19 so we can keep the@amazonconveyor belt roller .
at last , Amazon sent a return recording label to the span , without their having to pick the bill . Check out the item verbal description :
By the clock time I talked to Christian , the tumbler pigeon was on its way back to Amazon detention . “ The UPS bozo read up here 30 second ago with a coming back label and ask for the promotion back , ” he says . “ I put it back in the same loge and pass it off . ”
Though we ’ve reached out to Amazon for more information , it seems the details of how the crimper replaced the al-Qur’an will stay a mystery . Somewhere , a Kiva robot is run to its hens with the confidence of a well - informed poultry sodbuster .
[ Thanks , Matt ! ]
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