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   From: john@jfeldredge.com   
      
   On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:33:01 +0800, Robert Bannister wrote:   
      
   > On 19/08/13 2:33 AM, The Horny Goat wrote:   
   >> On Sat, 17 Aug 2013 16:48:32 -0600, Greg Goss  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) wrote:   
   >>>>> Almost all supermarkets require a deposit to unlock their carts.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Are you talking about the United States?  Because if you are, I have   
   >>>> to at this point say "???????"   
   >>>   
   >>> I'm in Canada.  I've seen the barricade version in DC, but haven't   
   >>> done much shopping in the States.  Our Safeway was the first I noticed   
   >>> to go to coin-unlock carts and that's US-owned (or was until a few   
   >>> weeks ago), so I thought that the idea came from the States.   
   >>   
   >> The Overwaitea / PriceSmart / Save-on-Foods chain does this as well.   
   >>   
   >> 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 have often wished that shopping carts had parking brakes.  If the   
   parking lot has much of a slope to it, you end up having to place the   
   cart on the uphill side of the car to keep it from rolling away, even if   
   the car door you wanted to place the merchandise into was on the downhill   
   side of the car.   
      
   --   
   John F. Eldredge -- john@jfeldredge.com   
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   drive out hate; only love can do that." -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.   
      
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