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LAX just got held up by a 70-pound robot. No, seriously.

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Oh my god you guys will not believe what happened at LAX.

### That’s not a carry-on, ese

Okay so check it – you know how flying out of LAX is already, like, a whole thing, right? With the traffic on Sepulveda and trying to figure out which terminal you even need, ya sabes. Well, apparently, a flight got all delayed because a 70-pound humanoid robot, named Bebop, was trying to get on a plane. Literally, this robot was just trying to travel for work, minding its own business, and it caused a whole kerfuffle with security. Like, no mames, is this real life or a Black Mirror episode set at Terminal 1?

It’s just so L.A., right? You got folks trying to sneak their emotional support peacocks on flights, and now we got robots. What's next, a self-driving car trying to board as checked luggage? It really makes you wonder about the future, and also if they charged this robot for an extra seat or if it counted as a very large carry-on. My tía would literally bring a whole cooler of tamales as a carry-on and get less grief than poor Bebop.

* **What this means for Los Angeles:**

* LAX, already a chaotic masterpiece, just leveled up its weirdness.

* We gotta start thinking about robot travel etiquette.

* It’s a reminder that Los Angeles is where the future literally bumps into your everyday life, usually causing a slight delay.

Seriously, this is the stuff that makes you go, "Only in Los Angeles." We’re out here dealing with brush fires on the 405 near Sepulveda Basin, water-saving plans for the Colorado River, and then a robot tries to hop on a plane. That’s the real LA, fam — east of the 110.

Catch Keith and the crew breaking down all the wild stuff that happens here every morning — you gotta check it out live at mornings.live.

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