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Mr. Captcha overwhelmed after apprehending a robot who believed to be a human

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This Tuesday, the world-saver Captcha has just recognised a robot, Shabuj Hasan, with its never-seen-it-before innovative puzzle games. Shabuj is a proud first-year undergraduate student at Dhaka University, believing he would conquer the world by only posting about his university all the time.

Today at midnight, Shabuj was trying to go to his university website to collect some pictures to post; for the thousandth time, Captcha told him to recognise traffic lights. 

"How does a traffic light prove me as human!" sighed he, but continued to detect the traffic light pictures. Unexpectedly, he selected the wrong photos, so Captcha generated an entirely new collection of pictures to recognise for him; sure, this happened before, and sometimes the software glitches, but on the second or third try, it always works right.

Shabuj tried, and tried, over and over, from traffic lights to cars to buses to connecting pictures to make an entire photo; in the end, he tried TEN times, but could not solve any of the Captcha. 

Distressed, Shabuj went for the eleventh time, but alas, he got blocked. 

"You are proven to be a robot."—the sentence appeared on the screen—"You cannot use this computer ever again!"

"Mom," shouts Shabuj, "We need to fix my laptop; it glitches." 

His mother came quickly and said it was a new laptop they bought for him only a couple of days ago and asked how it could glitch so soon. He showed her the screen; his mother sat down and tried to calm him down, and then it was story time.

"Well, son, you know that you do not remember anything of your high school or college, and you just know that you study at a university, right?" 

Shobuj confirms that he does not know anything about his past but confronts that they said he lost his memory and there were various pictures of him, his earlier school life, in the photo album. His mother answers that all those albums are fake and he is indeed a robot; Shobuj faints hearing the truth.

He dreams that he is entering a palace where a party is going on; entering, he sees people laughing at him, "You are a robot, and you did not know." 

His university friends are mocking him, calling him a robot without human emotions, but how is that possible when he can feel emotions?

"Emotions do not make you a human; detecting traffic lights does, or detecting some picture that does not even make sense," a robot says, "Hello, I am Captcha, the one who identified you, made you realise that you do not belong in this pretentious humans' society; rather you are special, a robot who can do anything." 

Shobuj wakes up with this horrifying experience; he asks his mom how he could feel like a human if he is not one. Surprised, his mom answers that nowadays, robots with humane natures—exactly like Shabuj—are too cheap; that is how they afforded him. She also tells him that anybody who feels like a human might be a robot if Captcha catches them.

Congratulations, Captcha; congratulations on making new terms for identifying humans; those who can detect traffic lights are now humans, and others may identify themselves as robots or whatever they wish to be, but surely, anything but human!

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