skyfet has a tractor ?

Too bad all the local police officers were busy protesting at an SEIU rally clean across town.

This video makes a pretty compelling arguement for the sale of guns at Walmart as well as more lenient carry laws.

Just one more blatent example of liberal BOOM goes the dynamite.

I can’t think of any reason for a tractor to be programmed to run in a tight circle except maybe for snow removal, plus as I understand it, most of the self-driving programs operate off of GPS coordinates and if that’s the case, it’d have to know that it’s in a Walmart parking lot. So, my guess is that there may have been a computer malfunction, a blip in the satellite signal or someone started the tractor, put it in gear and then jumped-off. Either way, one would think Deere would have some kind of obstacle safeguard in place to prevent their tractors from accidentally destroying a barn or something.

As for the cops, they probably aren’t any more qualified to stop a tractor than the guy with the camera and I don’t know where the local affiliates are in relation to that particular Walmart, but one imagines they are further away than the cops on the beat, so they can’t really be faulted for not being at the scene of the “crime”, especially at night.

Still, cute video. I’m not seeing a hat-tip, but based on the drama, we’ll probably be seeing it all morning and then it’ll make it to some of those video shows that used to fill the airwaves.

I think that brave soul was the driver by the look of his clothing. Heavy equipment operators tend to leave their machine running if they step out of it for a few minutes.

It was that Mayhem guy again.

oldbiker said:
It was that Mayhem guy again.

Quite, possibly. I’m sure he could be a real a-hole, if he sets his mind to it.
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Otherwise, I’m not sure why I’m getting all of the thumbs-down on my GPS/computer problem guess, but it did prompt me to spend a couple of minutes glancing at the Deere manuals.

I’m only casually familiar with the self-driving technology, but my understanding is that there’s a base unit which communicates with the tractor’s receiver using radio waves and not only are there cautions about accounting for reflectivity off of large buildings, but there are also cautions about frequency interference.

Perhaps it is as simple as the wheels were locked in some kind of turn and the straightaways are an optical illusion, but considering the number of radio waves which are used in a Walmart’s operation, it still could be possible that some type of interference is actually driving the tractor.

Barack Must Go said:
Too bad all the local police officers were busy protesting at an SEIU rally clean across town.

This video makes a pretty compelling arguement for the sale of guns at Walmart as well as more lenient carry laws.

Just one more blatent example of liberal BOOM goes the dynamite.

So, since the great majority of Canadian SEIU members are employed in (socialist, rationed, run by ‘death panels’) health care, you’re saying mounties are nurses?

Your posts remind me a lot of the substitute sports news reader who made that BOOM goes the dynamite catchphrase famous, by the way… mumble, nonsense, mumble, BOOM goes the dynamite; more stumbling nonsense, BOOM goes the dynamite; stuttering attempted clarification, made up on the spot, BOOM goes the dynamite. Yeah… just like him.

Bob & Doug McKenzie are at it again! Crazy Canucks.

An Idea said:
skyfet has a tractor ?

I nearly peed my pants when I read that… DANG YOU! Still ROFLMAO

“…with Rob Dickens at the wheel…”

Ivan in Phoenix said:
Bob & Doug McKenzie are at it again! Crazy Canucks.

It was really Red Green.

X-3 said:
It was really Red Green.

I haven’t thought about Red Green, since I lived in Maine and his show was a PBS staple on Friday or Saturday night. Thanks for prompting me to pull up some YouTube clips and you’re right, it totally could be something he could’ve cooked-up.
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BTW: Since I’m back in this thread, the Consumerist reported that all Deere tractors have a seat-kill switch which would shut-off the engine if no one was in the driver’s seat, so they assume it had been modified (and that totally sounds like something Red Green would do)

Magister said:

BTW: Since I’m back in this thread, the Consumerist reported that all Deere tractors have a seat-kill switch which would shut-off the engine if no one was in the driver’s seat, so they assume it had been modified (and that totally sounds like something Red Green would do)

No problem on the Red Green reminder–Steve Smith and crew were truly funny. I own a Poulan tractor with a kill switch in the seat so it’s apparently a common feature now. It’s a good innovation, I think.

Not to toot my own horn too much but I have a new line of bicycles coming out this summer. They have no seats and no handlebars; they’re for investors who have lost their asses and don’t know which way to turn.