People leaving shopping carts....

kenchan

yah, ive had 2 cars in the past get hit by shopping carts. i usually dont take my hobby cars to the super market but since my wife needed to be dropped off for something i drove her in my hobby car at the time.

and you guess it... some f-head placed cart in sidewalk + wind = BAM!

that's about when i spent a few grand for PDR training and tools. hahaha.

SmoothZ

If I drive the Z to the store, I park far away. The weather is always nice, so I don't mind the walk in. I also like looking at the car as I walk away or towards it. Someday, I'm going to catch a hottie peaking in, bent over, unaware....nevermind.

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kannibul

Wow, the generalizations fly...

I'm fat (well, I don't think I'm FUCKTARD fat, but still big...at 6'0" / 295lbs) - but I always put the carts where they should go.

When I hit home depot and use one of those BMF carts, I roll the thing back up into the store.

Then again, when I was younger, and had a car I didn't mind getting torn up, I played shopping car demolition derby. Amazing what a 78 T-Bird going 30 will do to a shopping cart. I'm sure the store thought 'them damn teenagers tearing up our carts...' my thought is, you pay people to collect carts, and put carts into parking-spot containers...

Yet they're everywhere.


My favorite is when people put them in the cart holder, and it's ovbious someone hasn't come by with the little battery operated cart pusher to send them back in the store. In my day, you had to PUSH them...my record was 56 carts in one shot...no battery wimp-assist! RAWK!

Gaiiden

when i see a shopping cart next to me I just do this:

Kills two birds with one stone.

in regards to one being there when I come out, I always try to find a spot in the highest point on the lot - that's about the most you can do besides parking in the boonies (which I do as well)

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DooDooBrown

Kinda reminds me of that Meguairs ad that I saw in Car And Driver!!!! Shopping carts = Pure Evil!!

Jones Boy

I don't shop at Wal-Mart for this very reason. My wife took my 3 month old Tahoe up to Wal-Mart in the spring a couple years ago. We were having the typical 35 to 40 mph spring winds in Oklahoma. Well, my wife does what I've taught her to do and parks out in the boonies, to protect from door dings. She is about to get out of the car and feels/hears this loud bang. She thinks she's been backed into or hit by another car. She glances around and doesn't see any cars and figures it was something weird. So she goes into the store and shops. Well on the way out she is walking up to the car and can see the massive dent in the driver side door. So she comes home and tells me. Well I'm like why didn't you go in and talk to the manager of the store. She says they won't do anything because of the signs on the cart returns that says they aren't responsible for damages. So I call my uncle lawyer and ask him and he says to go back up there right away and talk to the manager. Needless to say Wal-Mart's claim department found them not liable for damages, and i got stuck with the 1000 dollar repair bill.

So, I don't shop there anymore. Oh yeah, Wal-Mart actually has a form for baskets hitting cars. It has spots for pictures and damage descriptions and so forth.

The parking on the highest point is a good idea!

kannibul

Signs don't mean anything. I would have taken that to civil court, and make them prove how they aren't liable (they own the lot, they own the carts, they have employees that their job responsibility is to collect carts), just because they put up a sign.

Jones Boy

Oh trust me we argued with them and went back and forth some, but to take it to court would have taken a lot of my uncle's time and we decided it wasn't worth the time or money. I did learn that Wal-Mart has there own claim company. They were the ones that decided Wal-Mart wasn't liable. I still am amazed at how that worked.

I'm sure our shopping there doesn't matter to them one bit, but I can't stand them anymore.

nogoodname

think ditched carts in the parking lot is disrespect?? ....... i sometime see carts on my street and on the main street to my neighbourhood..... dumb ppl actually take the time to push a cart into intersections

nogoodname

i used to slam the cart into the cart return LOL... its bitter sweet because the carts are useful but its annoying to see them ditched all over the place... so i some times collect any carts near my car and slam it into the cart return.


also, when waiting in line with ur cart... ever had those dummies who push the cart so close to ur back.... one time some one hit my heel/foot right where it hurts lol, i got so mad... i kicked the cart behind me, things when flying and that person learned a lesson.

bloodo

It does not only happen at Walmart, it's every where you go grocery. When I used to be a courtesy clerk for Hyvee, I had to run around collecting carts because people left them everywhere. Hyvee's parking lot is not as big as Walmart, but some people are just too damn lazy to take the extra step to return the cart.

j.arnaldo

Human nature never changes!

ZCarMan

I see a niche for some enterprising inventor type. Come up with a shopping basket that has some type of bumper on the outside to prevent denting an automobile! Sell the ideal to some large store chain like Walmart, Home Depot, Lowes..etc. and make a killing!

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djsizzy

thats actually how i got the first "blemish" on my last car. A shopping cart rolled down the hill in the lot right into my car.

i hate lazy people