A robot met its end near Coors Field tonight when the Denver Police Department Bomb Squad detonated the “suspicious object,” bringing to an end the hours-long standoff between police and the approximately eight-inch tall figurine….

A bomb squad robot was sent it to examine the troublesome robot before a bomb squad officer, dressed in heavy protective gear, took a turn.

Murray said that the bomb squad couldn’t be sure if the robot was safe or not, and so remotely detonated it at about 5:30 p.m. to “render it safe.” The robot exploded into several chunks.

– Kyle Glazier, Denver Post.

I love the idea of bombing stuff to “render it safe.” This robot will be safest EXPLODED!

Clearly another case of cops blowing stuff up because they can. And I endorse that behavior, because if I were a cop I’d blow stuff up all the time. Also, due to my enthusiasm for explosives, I probably wouldn’t last too long in my cop job. Police offers have so many opportunities to get away with tons of destruction. In most cases, I admire their restraint.

Here’s what the menace in question looked like:

And remember, if we keep citing potential terrorism as an excuse to unnecessarily blow up obviously harmless items, then the terrorists have lost big time.