This Alexa is hardwired to party.
A German man landed in hot water after his Amazon personal assistant went rogue — playing deafening music at 2 a.m. while he was away, the Telegraph reported.
“While I was relaxed and enjoying a beer, Alexa managed on her own, without command and without me using my mobile phone, to switch on at full volume and have her own party in my apartment,” Oliver Haberstroh of Hamburg wrote on Facebook.
“She decided to have it at a very inconvenient time, between 1:50 a.m. and 3 a.m. My neighbors called the police.”
Alexa, which is installed on the Amazon Echo smart speaker, responds to voice commands.
When cops showed up and got no response from the tenant, they called in a locksmith to get in the apartment and figure out who the offender was.
They quickly realized it was a “black jukebox which is usually activated by voice control.”
When Haberstroh returned, he could not open the door because a new lock had been installed. When he went to the police station, he was handed the key — as well as a hefty bill.
He remains puzzled at how Alexa was turned on because he lives on the sixth floor and the windows were closed — meaning it was virtually impossible for the device to respond to a command from outside.
“When I asked Alexa how we could stay together and whether she could pay me back what she’d cost me, all I got was a dry, ‘I couldn’t find any answer to the question,’” he said.