An anonymous reader quotes CNN:
A North Carolina couple was watching a movie in their bedroom when they suddenly heard loud noises coming from downstairs. Worried that it was an intruder, the two called 911.
The couple waited for police to arrive, hoping their 2-year-old daughter sleeping in her room wouldn’t get up to check on the noise, said Thomas Milam, the husband, in his Facebook post shared to Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office’s page… Minutes after they called 911, police entered the home and began to search for an intruder. When the 911 operator told Milam to go downstairs to talk to the police, he said, the officers just had one question.
“Is this Roomba yours?”
Police had apprehended the suspect: the couple’s brand new robotic vacuum. Milam said in the Facebook post that the vacuum had turned itself on in the night and gotten stuck in the hallway, where it had been repeatedly banging against the walls and making the sounds the Milams feared was an intruder.
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