When a delivery robot asked a man to push the crosswalk button for it so it could cross the street, the man filmed the bot, told it to fuck off, and bullied the dumb thing for replacing a human yet still relying on them to do its job.<\/p>\n
Last month, a video of William Gude, known online as FilmThePoliceLA,\u00a0 showed him yelling at a Mingo food delivery robot<\/a> in Los Angeles. The video went viral on Twitter and has since\u00a0been\u00a0posted on many other social media services<\/a> and websites, including Reddit and Instagram. In the video, the robot parks near Gude on the sidewalk by a street crossing and asks him to hit the crosswalk button. Gude refuses multiple times before leaving it trapped at the crosswalk. It\u2019s one of many videos posted by Gude documenting such robot delivery drones<\/a>.<\/p>\n Fuck you, Mingo. I\u2019m not helping you. pic.twitter.com\/5I2TMsq8gd<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Film The Police LA (@FilmThePoliceLA) March 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cYou want me to press the button for you? You want me to press the button for you, Mingo? F**k you! Press it yourself,\u201d says the man in the minute-long video. \u201cYou took a human\u2019s job, and you want me to press the button for you?\u201d<\/p>\n Food delivery bots have become more commonplace in big cities in the United States. However, these robots aren\u2019t liked by everyone. They have caused damage to bus stops<\/a>, invaded active crime scenes<\/a>, and blocked sidewalks, making it harder for people in wheelchairs to travel<\/a>. As pointed out by the person in the video, these bots are also taking away jobs despite being unable to hit a button to cross the street safely.<\/p>\n Welcome to the future, where you will soon be replaced by bots to save rich people money, and instead, you will serve the bots, like we see with Waymo paying people to close doors left open on its robotaxis<\/a>. Fun stuff! Anyway, I\u2019m gonna go kick the robot that cleans floors at my local gas station again.<\/p>\n Update: 4\/6\/26, 4:40 p.m. ET: The location and name of the man have been updated. (Thanks for the tip, folks in the comments!)<\/p>\n