Robby VAC kills granny 85 August 30 2014 Copyright RickOShay
Ms Irma Flatten an 85 year old pensioner from Sittingbourne was found dead in her bungalow today. Detective Stain from the Swale county police said it appeared on initial inspection that her personal 'Robby VAC'- robotic vacuum cleaner had malfunctioned resulting in her falling down the stairs. The forensic robotics department later confined the collision detection system had malfunctioned on the vacuum cleaner. It seems that one of the pensioners slippers had been partially sucked into the cleaner resulting in some of the sensors being obscured and therefore the cleaner had been unable to detect the presence of Mrs Flatten. Detailed forensic results will be presented this week at the citizen protection bureau in Kent. Mrs Dorothy Whinge who lived next door said it was a terrible shame and that in her opinion Robby VACs were a menace to society. Ref Sittingbourne News.