I found a shopping cart outside my house today

[noahmijo]

Yea an old fashioned (one of those metal) shopping carts with Albertson's name on it.

I called them up and the manager was cool and said he'd send someone over to pick it up.

Personally I don't think I should be responsible for the failures of a store to secure its own property.

A box of cookies costs what? $3? but you'll get spend at least a day in jail down here if you steal one.

But stealing a $500 shopping cart hey! you can do that!

I'm sorry but I am so sick and fucking tired of this so called city of Tucson and its mutants. I live in a decent neighborhood, NOTHING ever happens out here, and now we got derelicts running around camping out in people's yards??? I expect this shit downtown where I used to work but not out here, not in a neighborhood full of kids.

Where's the fuckin police? probably out looking for those dangerous speeders that's about all they enforce is the speed limit out here.

I can't wait to get the fuck out of here. I really can't. I fuckin hate this city this filthy, redneck ridden, 105 degree on average summer bullshit city.

How I dream of living in the Northwest preferably in Silverdale, Wash....:(
Someday dammit.

[pagerbear]

1. One suspects you have strong feelings about this.

[SheepyMcSheepster]

2. my dad used to run grocery stores

and he would have to ride around the neighborhoods the stores were located near to find shopping carts people "barrowed".

people who walk to the store would simply walk home with the shopping cart and then ditch them.

thanks for calling the store. sure you are not responsible, but there is no real way to secure shopping carts without rendering them useless.

[noahmijo]

4. Yea I mean I was nice about it and everything and the manager was cool

I just let out the nasty side of me to you guys on here as a form of venting..I don't personally hold managers responsible, I used to work in a grocery store so I know it's hard to keep track of everything, and to put it bluntly we have tons of homeless out here, and yea on one hand I am compassionate and everything, but on the other hand I don't take kindly to people stealing carts and then possibly camping out in front of my house.

Next thing you know you're finding crack needles and human shit, and I don't care how liberal or compassionate you are, it will make you mad to see that stuff or for your kids to have to see it in front of your own house.

[sniffa]

3. adopt the cart

it obviousLy is negLected and couLd use a good home.

[noahmijo]

5. LoL

Thanks for that laugh :)

[Gothic Sponge]

6. NO! The cart is for you!

Don't you know it's part of Bush administration's 2005 housing program? ;)

[KurtNYC]

7. Cart traps

In northern Manhattan and the Bronx, grocery stores have 3 foot tall concrete posts spaced about 18 inches apart outside of the doorways so you couldn't take the cart any further than that. Unless you pick the whole thing up I suppose. Seems extreme but it seems to work for them.

Sorry to hear you are so down on Tucson. If you really hate the heat, the economy in Canada is booming. The have up'ed their quotas for both work visas and immigrant visas (~400,000). And Toronto is beautiful this time of year eh?

[SoCalDem]

8. Shame on ME.. I have a shopping cart.. It's kind of beat up, but

when I get home from the store, it's nice to unload everything from the car into it, and then into the house. :)..

I just put it behind the fence when I am done :)

[1monster]

9. Unless it was a handicapped shopping cart, the cost is something like

But stealing a $500 shopping cart hey! you can do that!

$60.00 reatail, not $500.

Help yourself out by taking a room in your house, get some curtains or venetian blinds that will let in light, but not let you see the view, and fill your room with loads of plants (unless you have cats, then it will have to be fake plants :D). Buy a white noise machine that has the sound of running water (brook or small creek) and bird songs that you might hear in the northwest. Get a humidifier and turn the air conditioning on high. Then sit down somewhere comfortable and picture yourself in a northwest rural area. Hold the thought in your mind until you are feeling relaxed and peaceful.

Do this for at least a half hour every day until you move elsewhere or until you can handle Tucson...

[hunter]

10. Shopping carts??? It's the kids with guns that freak me out...

Tuscon sounds okay if all you have to worry about are shopping carts. I have a little truck, so whenever a shopping cart turns up in my neighborhood I simply throw it in the back of the truck and return it.

If I called the police about every shopping cart I found they might get irritated with me, and maybe not show up whenever I really needed them.

Heck, when somebody stole my Christmas lights, the official police response was "We're sorry. You can file a report on our web site. If you don't have internet access you can go to the library or come down to the station."

I've been to the police station. They give you a number and you get to sit next to a prostitute who tells you stories you don't want to hear.