The poor old guy should get an award for creativity, except, well, he's dead.
A grandfather who wanted to end his life built himself a gun-toting robot with plans downloaded from the Internet and used it to kill himself.
The bizarre suicide machine was set up to remotely fire a .22 semi- automatic pistol - and when the 81-year-old man activated it he was hit several times in the head.
Police refused to name the man, who lived on Queensland's Gold Coast, but last night confirmed the death and that an 'unusual device' had been used.
It is believed that based on internet plans he devised a method of setting up the gun on a platform and then used a remote control which activated the trigger on the gun.
He had positioned himself in front of the weapon in his driveway so that when it fired he knew he would be struck in the head.
The man, who lived alone, left notes describing his intentions to kill himself as he struggled to come to terms with demands by relatives, who live in another state, for him to move out of his house and go into an elderly persons' home.
According to the local Gold Coast Bulletin newspaper, which was given details of the unusual suicide, the man's notes explained that he chose the driveway to activate his home-made robot because he knew there were tradesmen working next door who would find his body.
His plan worked - when the workmen heard the crack of gunshots they ran to investigate. It is understood the weapon was loaded with four bullets, all of which were fired by the robot.
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