I come back to this...
 

So even after parking a mile away from the store...**** still seems to happen. Might have been the wind, or some biatch punk was hating. Either way..its all good, at least it was the front bumper. The lower spoiler prevented it from hitting the paint, but upon inspection some paint is lightly scratched (scuffed) but I should be able to buff it out completely or to the point of it not being noticeable.

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That sucks at least there wasn't major damage. When I saw your title I was expecting a Z on milkcrates or bricks lol.

:icon18: What are the odds...Someone went out of their way for this one. At least there wasn't much damage, hope it cleans up easily

Yea no major damage, and I am not that mad, especially considering that I am a freak when it comes to paint. I wax my car every other week etc so I like to keep the paint top notch.
I was mad enough to get the cart, flip it over and toss it on its side in the parking lot.
Could have been much worse, perhaps, a door or side panel...now that would have most likely caused some good damage , not to mention price to fix.

Yea..pretty fishy, it was slightly windy, but really? like right on the nose like that?...either way, the way I see is that someone had to move the cart for it to get there in the first place. When I parked, there was no carts etc. plus I mean it when I say that I parked like a mile away lol (notice no other cars around)
I just wanted to share this with everyone lol, after my initial reaction which was "wow wtf really", was to take a picture for the 370z forums LOL

haters!

haha at first I was like jeez anger issues, but then knowing myself I probably would of done the same thing.

I feel your pain

about a year ago i was at the local game stop in this shopping center that was in the target parking lot. when i went in it looked cloudy but no rain.. 5 mins later I come out and its windy as **** with black skys... out of the corner of my eye I see this older lady looking sort of dumbfounded at me walking to my car....and then i see it... the wind had blown her target cart out of her hands as she was returning it and it was speeding toward my GTR. I run to intervene but it was too late...it hit right where the clear side marker was like where the bumper and fender meet...hit so hard the back wheels of the cart came off the ground i **** you not.... by some miracle and maybe the clear bra or hit impacting exactly on the plastic side marker there wasnt any damage...but seriously it was a WTF moment.

seriously a half empty lot and the target cart bin was like a hundred feet away in the parking lot.. the chances that it would come out of her hands and have the exact diagonal trajectory to line up perfectly with my car was just :shakes head: if it would have T boned the door it would have been epically bad

:eek: damn!!! scary!!!
Hopefully this helps me pick an even better spot next time, maybe putting into account variables consisting of wind direction, and if the ground is perfectly leveled or not etc LOL .
Yea also thankfully no cracks or anything, I will have to further inspect. But In the picture, at first I thought it was full contact with front bumper, but when I got closes they wheels are the front hit the bottom spoiler thing, which prevented the top of the cart to hit the paint with much force.

My local Target is part of a mall. The mall parking lot wraps all the way around the mall. So what happens is people shop at Target, but then they push their cart elsewhere in the mall because they aren't parked by Target. So then they empty their goods into the car, but now they have nowhere to put the cart, because only the area in front of Target has the cart returns. I have seen some pretty horrible things due to this. One time I saw some guy just push his cart as hard as he could away from his car, and it ran into a white SUV at full speed and left a dent. I witnessed it and tried to chase after the guy but he peeled out as soon as he saw me. I managed to catch his plate number, so I wrote it on a note to the SUV owner. I'm hoping he was able to track that douche down.

Thank goodness your car didn't suffer much.

When my dad first bought his used '90 Z32-TT he took it to the grocery store to quickly grab something. When he walked back to his car someone scraped up the side with a shopping cart and left it there.

There was another situation when he parked at the gas station to get coffee, he noticed some suspicious dudes staring at him. When he walked out he saw one of them throw a lit cigarette butt through the window and took off.

Be careful of some places. People like to leave bottles and cans behind the wheel.

Crazies...

Guh. Parking is such a gamble. A lot of times if I can snag a spot in the crowd I'll do it, if it's next to other nice cars. I figure the dude in a C class Benz doesn't wasn't his (or her) door dinged either. I feel like that camouflages you from arse wipes who would intentionally do something to your car.

That said, I hate my neighbors. My immediate neighbors are fine, but the there's a sizable white trash contingent in the other houses around us. The parents all let their little white trash goober kids run a-f***ing-mok unmonitored. I came out to my car on Sunday to go to my hockey game.

RED CRAYON. All down the driver side door. :mad: I almost popped a hemorrhoid. Lucky for the little bastards it rubbed off fairly easily. That said, next time I see them, there's going to be an interrogation and some promises of broken arms...

I see people just leave carts in the middle of parking lots all the time with nothing preventing them from rolling off on their own for one reason or another.

People are inconsiderate.

Too far to go to return it? How hard is it to hook the front wheels over a curb off to the side or something so it wont just roll away with a breeze or take up a whole parking space.

Glad it was only a minor scuff. It'll probably buff right out.

And my gf wonders why we always take her Kia when we have to park around the general public.

I agree with all the posts, people are so inconsiderate of others property, but at the same time these haters want what you have but wouldn't take care of it if they had it. Just glad i can use our DD whenever i need to go somewhere around the city, and my wife reminds me never to park my 370Z (not that i would, we respect our possessions , and she appreciates the hard work i put into detailing our cars) unless i'm pumping gas into her (Vanity). :shakes head:

Murder Death Kill.

It happens.

So in Europe carts are all buckled together. When you get a cart you have to insert the equivalent of a dollar or two (in coins) to unbuckle it from the others and then hell yeah you see people returning it!! It kinda sucks that here you can just leave it anywhere.:shakes head:

Always park uphill?

These should be included with purchases of nice cars. Just need to work on a way to make them quick setup and quick take-down.


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Parking uphill, away from other cars, and ideally next to a curb is what I always look for

I hate haters !!

I hate parking in public lots here in LA. Nothing but a bunch of inconsiderate douches that ding your car.

Maybe I should just cover my car in these! lol

Our Car Door Guards, and Door Edge Guards are Superior to the Competition

Those look interesting, but would be a hassle to do this every time you park... but it'd be worth it.

yah, one of my earlier hobby cars have been hit by a shopping cart before. :shakes head:

i took the car to this PDR place and watched the guy push it out. that's when i decided i'd learn PDR myself. it's a handy thing to know how to do.

LOl looks legit!! Hahaha.
Usually parking far away works.
I've never came back to other cars around me
Until this time, but it was a shopping cart...

So I'm in my Honda at the school parking waiting for my next class , and Damn I'm glad I rarely bring the Z here ...bunch of white girls with 4x4 pick up trucks parking all slanted and what not .
Keep in mind they are young and probably just got their license lol .

uhhhhh.... you a teacher? if not, you kinda young too, no? :ugh2:

LOl you got me there ! Lemme change that by young I mean stupid . Well at least at parking .
I'm 20 :p 3 more months for 21 :D
Really though, I could probably snap a couple pictures of how horrible people park.

School is the single most terrifying place on the planet to park a nice car. When I was in college I bought a $500 salvage title Volvo 940 so my Sti could stay at home.

Or some hot 18+yo white girls. :ugh2: :icon17:

I miss school...

Not the parking lot dangers though.

Except that anyone could just walk by and yank them off the car if they wanted to.

What he said.

:icon17:

yah, some folks dont have a sense of space. they just pull in alllllllll the way until their tire hits the stop or their lip is in pieces. lol

and thats what sucks, wouldn't it be cool to drive your STI to school and not worry about that stuff.

I often park far or honestly, I get a close park to the door...sometimes when people see my car I find they appear to be more careful lol.

After having parts stolen off it, door dings and a key mark or two it was no longer cool to drive it everyday.

arrrg, where has the respect for another mans car gone :shakes head:

As for OP, good thing it was a plastic covered cart, not the all metal rusted kind

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This was coming back to the Z when I took it to school during finals last semester :D
I carry those cones...jk Someone put them there after I parked there, and I came back to a pleasant surprise. haha. :happydance:
NO ONE CAN PARK NEXT TO ME THIS WAY :D

Sure they can. The Scion can just back up right next to you.

I'm going to buy four cones and carry them at all times. :tup: