Because they are now owned by the garbage companies and they managed to make customers take them out to the curb as part of the contract. When I was a kid they came to the side of the house and carried the can to the truck. Those men were jacked. If they still had to hire strong men they would be spending millions on automation.
Robots have been good with solid predictable items for a long time. Even doing a physics simulation of cloth is challenging. There's a reason circuit board manufacturing is extremely automated but making clothes is still people with sewing machines. This is a demonstration that is about to change. Probably reshore clothing manufacturing. Partly so that all the foreign workers that lose jobs can't direct their energy at breaking the robots that replace them.
@SemperRaw@RadioGenoa Probably at least one bullet per cop. I've always thought that was the wrong option though. Bullet proof clothes are extremely knife resistant too. Just knock them down with jousting poles or something.