Stolen buggies pushed on Cdn streets

[dumpthemonarchy]

If the police see a person drinking a legally purchased bottle of beer on the street they will take the trouble to stop their vehicle and confiscate your booze.

Yet, street people push shopping carts on the streets of Canada and they only pay 50 cents for them. The carts are worth $500. This is theft and the police should rent pickup trucks and confiscate these stolen shopping carts. Street people can use wagons and bikes to scoop up their bottles etc.

 

[Lotuslander]

About 10 or 15 years ago there was a guy in Nova Scotia who used to go around in his pickup and look for buggies and return them to the rightful store. Every cart he returned he was given 20 bucks. Anyway, to paraphrase along story, after a couple years he was able top afford anew truck. Apparently he would average 10-15 buggies a day.

 

[Said1]

About 10 or 15 years ago there was a guy in Nova Scotia who used to go around in his pickup and look for buggies and return them to the rightful store. Every cart he returned he was given 20 bucks. Anyway, to paraphrase along story, after a couple years he was able top afford anew truck. Apparently he would average 10-15 buggies a day.

You're confusing TV with reality. You're thinking of Bubbles. :lol:

 

[annabattler]

There is a man in Vancouver who figured the "return" buggy thing out several years ago.
He has deals with various "cart" stores...grocery stores pay him more for the return of their buggies than do drug stores.
He also has found it profitable.

 

[dumpthemonarchy]

The police are being derelict in their duties when the ignore all these carts on the street. When the police see stolen property being pushed ont he streets they have to investigate and confiscate if necessary.

Safeway, Wal-Mart, Home Depot and many others have just shrugged watching their carts roll away for years. Yet if you take a jug of milk, flip a quarter at the cashier, walk out of the store these merchants will call the police. Go figure.

 

[Laika]

RE: Stolen buggies pushed

Grocery stores offer carts as a courtesy so people will buy more stuff. If the stores want their carts back, they can go get them. Isn't that what they pay the grocery baggers for?

If a cart is abandoned, we can't really call it stealing if some industrious person comes along and puts said item to use. The police have better things to do than collect shopping carts and harass homeless people.

 

[Lineman]

The carts may be abandoned but still belong to the originating store. If your car was stolen and abandoned it doesn't just become public scrap. I do agree though that the police have better things to do with their time. I don't think you'll ever stop the carts from leaving the lots unless you're escorted to your vehicle and that won't happen.

 

[missile]

Aren't we ,the consumers, paying for all the stolen and lost shopping carts every time we buy some item at these stores? I have to believe the costs are added to all the store's product :x

 

[mabudon]

RE: Stolen buggies pushed

OOOhhhhhh, this is one of my pet peeves...

I don't mind insane homeless types with shopping carts so much, as I really do feel that such folks likely aren't choosing with a "good mind" so to speak, and I just feel kinda sad and sorry when I see it

the folks that REALLY get me are the ones walking out of the parking lot of a shopping place with a few bags (usually for some reason these folks travel in gaggles of 3-5 people, so if they had ANY respect for anything they could easily be carrying the stuff, even switching the load if it got too heavy)

For some reason, these people always give you this weird "proprietrary sneer" is you look at them... as missile said (and combined with the above posts) apparently we as consumers pay enough for this every year to buy new vehicles for folks (which I don't have a problem with, the enterprise- if the crappy shopping-cart-pushing-cos-they're-lazy-inconsiderate are gonna just push the carts a few blocks away and ditch them on the neighbors boulevard and the cops aren't gonna bother, SOMEONE has to get the carts back to their owners)

I really wish there was something we as consumers could do to discourage the behaviour, but it would be close to vigilante-ism...

Still, I have been thinking a LOT lately of some perfect phrase to say to these types when I see them... I like the thought of grinning aer-to-ear and slowly riding by on my bicycle and saying "You are the CRAPPIEST people on earth", then maybe doing a couple more slide-bys saying variations of the same phrase...

 

[Jay]

"You are the CRAPPIEST people on earth", then maybe doing a couple more slide-bys saying variations of the same phrase..."

:lol:

That was funny....

 

[Lineman]

How about
"Nice cart! Is that the new LOSER 400?"

 

[mabudon]

RE: Stolen buggies pushed

That too is a good one- I'm gonna use it, if ya don't mind

Tis the season, after all, with the warm weather....

 

[dumpthemonarchy]

If you can't drink beer or smoke pot on the streets you shouldn't be able to push stolen shopping carts on it.