Unlucky gamblers at the Edogawa Kyotei boat race course in Tokyo have a new way to ease their frustrations after botching a bet -- they can feed their losing tickets to a robotic goat. Edogawa Kyotei enlisted the help of the ticket-munching robo-goat at the end of last month in an effort to reduce litter inside the facility. The 1.6-meter tall Rocky Mountain goat, which has a thick coat of white fur and ticket-detecting sensors in its mouth, devours about 500 tickets per day -- many of which would otherwise end up on the floor. The goatkeeper says, "It eats up your frustrations so that you will have better luck with the next race."
[Source: Asahi]
Andrew G.R.
I need a robotic goat in my office to eat all these damn memos!
[]K
Look very closely at the floor tiles and the lower half of the goat, especially the legs.
That's right.
[]spoogeman
Hey nice observation.. that's crazy maybe just a reflection across the glass?
[]Zzz
Definitely just a reflection
[]Apple Otaku
That goat reminds me of Banana Man Himura.
[]Goat man
these are some good goat pictures
(im a vetenariun in the mountains and i hunt a lot of goat and get bye but that goat looks good)
can i buy him
[]bob
some people make a living looking for discarded tickets that people have mistaken for losers.. I read somewhere that a guy makes thousands a month picking up discarded tickets.. this is probably just a way to deter that, or the workers caught on to this and collect the money for themselves.
[]Drakman
K said: "Look very closely at the floor tiles and the lower half of the goat, especially the legs."
Yeah, wtf? I can see clear through that ugly fucker.
Also, bob is right; they do NOT want folks cashing in if they can help it - so they came up with a fun way to accidentally throw out your winnings...a transparent mountain goat.
Fuckin' Japanese.
[]mo mo the talking cantalope
moo!
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