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   In article ,   
   Robert Bannister  said:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   There was a parody of this -- at least, it _might_ have been a   
   parody -- in the teaser of an episode of the American   
   workplace-sitcom-cum-crime-drama tv show "NCIS," in which an   
   inattentive customer in a grocery store parking lot let her   
   mostly-still-full cart roll away, and it eventually hit another   
   parked car which promptly exploded.  (Car-bomb with overly sensitive   
   trembler switch.)   
      
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