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   From: jclarkeusenet@cox.net   
      
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   hayesstw@telkomsa.net says...   
   >   
   > On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:33:01 +0800, Robert Bannister    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   > >On 19/08/13 2:33 AM, The Horny Goat wrote:   
   > >> In my previous posting I probably came across as extremely annoyed   
   > >> about "homeless" people stealing carts - a lot of this comes from a   
   > >> recent experience where when I was in a McDonalds drive thru one of   
   > >> these guys had a stolen cart and was going through the McDonalds bin   
   > >> for stuff he could get a deposit on. It was a slight downgrade and the   
   > >> cart starting rolling directly towards the drive-through line and was   
   > >> going to nail the car door of the car ahead of me until another person   
   > >> grabbed the cart. Point is that kind of damage TYPICALLY would cost   
   > >> $500+ to repair at the auto body shop and this twit made no attempt to   
   > >> retrieve "his" cart before it damaged the car.   
   > >>   
   > >> If scumbags like this feel entitled to be the cause of damage to   
   > >> other's property (which is exactly what making no effort to stop the   
   > >> rolling cart) why should they deserve my respect?   
   > >>   
   > >   
   > >It doesn't require a scumbag. Quite ordinary shoppers and, in   
   > >particular, their children will allow shopping trolleys to roll away.   
   > >Mostly they don't even bother to watch the crash. I expect a new scratch   
   > >or dent every time I go shopping.   
   >   
   > I don't mind scavengers rooting through our dustbin, and sometimes if we have   
   > leftover food I put it on a paper plate, or pizza in a box on top of the bin   
   > to make it easier for them.   
   >   
   > But one guy with a nicked supermarket trolley literally took the cake (in the   
   > figurative sense of "literally", not the literal sense of literally).   
   >   
   > We have special bags in which we can put old newspapers and other waste paper   
   > and a lorry comes around for a fortnightly collection. This bloke comes   
   > trundling down with his nicked trolley, parks it outside our front gate,   
   takes   
   > off the bag of newspapers, empties it in the vacant lot across the road, and   
   > folds up the bag, preparing to take it away.   
   >   
   > I brought his nicked trolley inside, and shut the gate.   
   >   
   > He pleaded with me to give it back, and I said I would only do so if he put   
   > all the newspapers back in the bag, and brought it back and put it where he   
   > had found it. When he realised that I was serious, he eventually did so.   
   >   
   > And then there was the bloke who stole ballast from the railway line.   
   >   
   > He would nick a wheelie bin, empty it in the same vacant lot, and fill it up   
   > with ballast, and trundle it home for his father who was building a house.   
   > Next week he would come again, steal another bin, and fill it up with   
   ballast.   
   > Eventually we called the cops, and they said they found about 20 bins at his   
   > father's house.   
      
   Old Russian story--worker on a construction site goes home every night   
   trundling his wheelbarrow full of dirt.  The guards poked it, searched   
   it, made him empy it a few times, but they never found anything   
   interesting in the dirt.  Many years later he encountered one of the   
   guards in a bar, and the guard asked him "what were you stealing?".  He   
   replied "wheelbarrows".   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)