Finally Had Enough: Caught A Cart Ditcher In The Act At Lowes

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October 01, 2022, 11:15 PM

Beancooker

Finally Had Enough: Caught A Cart Ditcher In The Act At Lowes

I don’t have this problem. I park out in the middle of BFE. No cars, no looking for a spot, and no carts. No one wants to park that far from the store.
It’s all older people and shade hunters around here. They park close. I’ll take the easy way out and walk a little.

quote:
_{Originally posted by sigmonkey:
I'd fly to Turks and Caicos with live ammo falling out of my pockets before getting within spitting distance of NJ with a firearm.}

October 01, 2022, 11:22 PM

Beancooker

quote:
Originally posted by SIGnified:
(Fwiw- I drive a car that cost $200,000 new.

What do you drive? Mercedes, Bentley, Rolls? I would have emailed you, but you don’t have an email listed.

quote:
_{Originally posted by sigmonkey:
I'd fly to Turks and Caicos with live ammo falling out of my pockets before getting within spitting distance of NJ with a firearm.}

October 01, 2022, 11:31 PM

V-Tail

quote:
Originally posted by Beancooker:

What do you drive? Mercedes, Bentley, Rolls?

Probably not a 1974 Pinto.

October 02, 2022, 12:54 AM

mod29

I've never confronted anyone regarding shopping carts or other silly shit like that, annoying as it is. I try to keep a low profile, gray man and all that.

But when someone leaves a cart in the middle of a parking spot and doesn't make the slightest effort to move it to a safe spot or cart corral, I just assume they're self-absorbed assholes. Plenty of them around.

October 02, 2022, 01:58 AM

monoblok

quote:
Originally posted by mojojojo:
quote:
Originally posted by eyrich:
you too can be a Cart Narc

https://www.youtube.com/c/CartNarcs

Thanks seems like an excellent way to get your ass kicked.

Or your body aerated. The first challenge in that video shows the challenged cart ditcher going for and brandishing his Glock. But all is good; the money from the narc's 50,990,000+ YT views should be more than enough to cover his funeral.

October 02, 2022, 02:24 AM

Fenris

I believe Para once said, "Don't mess with another man's car." Or words to that effect.

October 02, 2022, 03:27 AM

Skins2881

quote:
Originally posted by Beancooker:
I don’t have this problem. I park out in the middle of BFE. No cars, no looking for a spot, and no carts. No one wants to park that far from the store.
It’s all older people and shade hunters around here. They park close. I’ll take the easy way out and walk a little.

Furthest spot away that is upslope.

October 02, 2022, 03:40 AM

Pyker

It is not a hill that I choose to die on.

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October 02, 2022, 06:32 AM

Ozarkwoods

I fully understand where PASig is coming from. It ranks right up there with flinging their car doors open and hitting the vehicle next to them. On a parking lot that completely level ( none of them are) the wind will get the cart moving that will cause damage. This is a deeper issue though, it stems from the mindset that the universe rotates around their ass and they could give a shit about others or their property.

October 02, 2022, 06:42 AM

Hay2bale

quote:
Originally posted by darthfuster:
I have a dent in my tailgate because someone couldn't be bothered to put the cart away and a gust of wind drove it into my truck.

Wow!

Thanks for the laugh, this thread was depressing me.

Whoever thought a pickup truck would ever get a dent in the tailgate? Just about everyone who ever owned a pickup?

My favorite Mazda pickup truck's tailgate got so many dents in it that it fell off completely.

October 02, 2022, 06:51 AM

egregore

quote:
I fully understand where PASig is coming from.

So do I. But I'm not going to confront them. There's no guarantee they will react like the one in the OP. It might trigger them to violence. If the situation comes to blows or even guns, you will be the one who's seen as having instigated or escalated it. When you carry, you have to take more crap from people.

October 02, 2022, 07:23 AM

Blume9mm

jumped over all the replies and my only worth while comment to the OP is "Good for You!"

with that said:

I can't believe how lazy people can be and I also have a dent in the side of my car from one of these people from a cart rolling down the hill that they left. I usually park a ways away from the front of a store and end up snatching a cart and either putting it in the bend or just rolling it in and using it.

October 02, 2022, 07:32 AM

Bulldog7972

quote:
Originally posted by 83v45magna:
The closest I ever got to this kind of 'shopping cart' situation. I am getting back to my car from Costco, no cart. The guy parked to my left is behind his SUV loading in stuff from a cart. I get in my car and see in the mirror that he has finished and simply pushes the empty cart behind my car.

It was too much for me, and at that moment, it was worth it.

I got back out, pushed his cart back behind his SUV, got back in and drove the fuck off.

And that is my shopping cart story.

You have to do that in that type of situation.

October 02, 2022, 07:34 AM

ScreamingCockatoo

Americans that are too lazy to put the cart back are too lazy to do other things too.

Put me on the mouthy list too.
Remember, I fucking hate people to star with.

October 02, 2022, 07:35 AM

sgalczyn

Some people need a reminder their actions(or inaction as it were) have consequences.

I am more than happy to provide those reminders - in many ways.....................

October 02, 2022, 07:35 AM

Bulldog7972

quote:
Originally posted by 400m:
I just walk up and put the cart away. Right in front of them.

They didn't even notice you.

October 02, 2022, 07:37 AM

Ozarkwoods

Maybe all stores should be like ALDIs put a quarter in it to acquire then when you return it you get your quarter back. Those carts that are left are returned by someone who wants that quarter.

October 02, 2022, 07:37 AM

Balzé Halzé

quote:
Originally posted by Bulldog7972:

They didn't even notice you.

Oh yes they did.

~Alan

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October 02, 2022, 07:48 AM

HayesGreener

Meh, shopping carts. Let's get steamed over something really important. Like the guy at the wing section at the buffet who takes all the drumettes and leaves nothing but the little meatless wingy things. The leaves the baked bean spoon in the coleslaw.