Autonomous food delivery pod meets fiery end under train

Starting to slip into the Friday afternoon doldrums? Here's one from the let's-see-what's-on-social-media-today file: an autonomous food delivery robot putting up a noble defense against a freight locomotive after apparently becoming stranded in a railroad crossing. Sure, the tiny scrapper ultimately loses, but it was certainly a plucky little thing.

This video in the tweet appears to have been originally shared by a member of a subreddit that is evidently maintained by either enthusiastic train fans or actual disgruntled locomotives, but little explanation accompanied it, so we're left to speculate behind the very obvious, which is that this little food delivery 'bot ended up becoming dinner for a much larger piece of machinery. That's not to say it gave up completely without a fight. You can see the locomotive jolt upward ever so slightly before the pod's structure completely gives way. Ah, nature. So violent, but so beautiful.