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   From: jclarkeusenet@cox.net   
      
   In article <1by57y9suq.fsf@snowball.wb.pfeifferfamily.net>,   
   pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu says...   
   >   
   > Robert Bannister  writes:   
   >   
   > > On 19/08/13 2:33 AM, The Horny Goat wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >> 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.   
   >   
   > Heck, years ago when I had an engine stand in my (somewhat overloaded)   
   > shopping cart, it went on a roll and hit my own car...   
      
   I helped a guy clean out an auto body shop a while back.  There were   
   several cut off shopping carts that the shop had been using to store and   
   move engines.  When you said "engine stand" I had visions of the Hemi   
   that chased me down the hill during that evolution, then I realized you   
   meant you had an engine stand in the cart rather than using the cart for   
   an engine stand.   
      
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