We used to own a Roomba when they first came out, and let me tell you that thing was the biggest waste of $200 I think we’ve ever spent. Not only did it frequently get stuck under coffee tables, get caught on the edges of fringed carpets and also happen to be loud as shit (the commercials never alluded to the fact that running it was akin to sending a bag of gravel through a blender on high), but it didn’t even vacuum that well.
This was all years ago – it appears in the meantime, Roomba has upped their game and made their automatic vacuums less-shitty in terms of the quality of the product, yet Jesse Newton, a regular ol’ guy from Little Rock, Arkansas, found his Roomba to be possibly the shittiest thing he ever bought. It (probably) worked fine at first…until one fateful night when it rolled over a pile of dog poop.
I’ll let Jesse take it from here:
Tl;dr: don’t let your Roomba run over dog poop unless you want your day to go straight down the shitter.
[H/T Metro]