Robocop was, in a way, the original plastic police officer, except he was made of metal and could actually arrest people, unlike his real life counterparts.
Made from the parts of an old police officer who was brutally murdered by Red Foreman from That 70s Show and scraps of metal collected from a dumpster out the back of the General Motors warehouse, Robocop kicked crimes ass all over Detroit.
People loved Robocop because he stood for law and order, by any means necessary. He was also near indestructible and made an awesome whirring sound whenever he moved, plus he had a massive gun and if there's one things American?s love, it's a hero with a miniature cannon strapped to them at all times.
The people of Detroit, and by people we mean geeks, wanted their metallic hero immortalised in? erm? metal, in the form of a statue. After all, Philadelphia has a Rocky statue, so why not reward another fictional character from the 80s who's no longer relevant by making a permanent shrine to them.
The Mayor of Detroit, Dave Bing, received a tweet asking for him to put a statue of Robocop somewhere in the city to boost morale. After Bing had finished laughing he rather predictably put the kybosh on the whole thing.
This angered the geeks, who did what they do best when someone tells them they can't do something. They took to the internet.
Rather incredibly the campaign was a hit, resulting in both a plot of land being donated for the statue to be built on as well as the sum of $56,000 being raised for the statue itself, smashing the $50,000 target.
So it looks like Robocop will have his own statue built in Detroit, conveniently just in time for the new Robocop film that is due to come out in 2013, not that that has anything to do with it you understand, it's all just a massive coincidence? maybe? probably? not.
We here at hecklerspray aren't against the statue per se. Actually, that’s a lie, we are. It is completely stupid to try and create a landmark to a fictional character, unless they're considered to be some sort of deity. Think about it, in thousands of years, when the statue is found in the ruins of old Detroit, what will people think? They?ll think we're buffoons, that what they?ll think.
A Robot policeman, honestly.
Besides, it's plainly obvious for everyone to see that the people of Detroit chose the wrong character to immortalise. So the hecklerspray team has come up with a plan:
That's right, let's put a statue of ED-209 on the fourth plinth. Infinitely cooler, as trigger happy as the Met?s SO19 squad and hard as a coffin nail, he’ll really put London back on the map.
Suck on that, Detroit.
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Arthur ASCii says
You missed the part where Robocop has been half paid for by OCP.
http://katp.eu/Le