While a Family Innocently Slept, the Roomba Was Smearing a 'War Zone of Poop' All Over the Living Room

While a Family Innocently Slept, the Roomba Was Smearing a 'War Zone of Poop' All Over the Living Room | PJ Media:
"Jesse Newton wrote on his Facebook page about the horrific carnage that he discovered after being awakened in the middle of the night by his son. The problem actually started the night before when the Newtons set their programmable Roomba to vacuum at 1:30 a.m., when the family was nestled all snug in their beds. Somewhere along the way their puppy Evie pooped on the rug in the living room. Newton wrote about the "pooptastrophe" that ensued, which he described as resembling a "Jackson Pollack poop painting." He warned what can happen if you turn your Roomba loose on a pile of poop:

It will be on your floorboards. It will be on your furniture legs. It will be on your carpets. It will be on your rugs. It will be on your kids' toy boxes. If it's near the floor, it will have poop on it. Those awesome wheels, which have a checkered surface for better traction, left 25-foot poop trails all over the house. Our lovable Roomba, who gets a careful cleaning every night, looked like it had been mudding. Yes, mudding - like what you do with a Jeep on a pipeline road. But in poop.

He said he first realized there was a problem when his 4-year-old climbed into bed with him and his wife at 3:30 a.m., smelling poopy. He described his reaction:

Oh, and you're not just using profanity - you're inventing new types of profanity. You're saying things that would make Satan shudder in revulsion. You hope your kid stayed in bed, because if he hears you talking like this, there's no way he's not ending up in prison.

And that's when the real nightmare began:..."