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Old 02-19-2011, 12:59 PM
 
Location: California
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I find these carts are handy items for pushing your supplies to the park for a picnic plus after unloading you can use it for a fine bbq grill.
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Old 02-19-2011, 01:55 PM
 
Location: San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties
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Now, I know that the British and Hessians did, ended badly for them, when did the Canadians invade?
Guess we don't get an answer.
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Old 02-19-2011, 02:08 PM
 
Location: Declezville, CA
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Having known you online for 4-5 years I'd bet you could probably eat stale road killed crow if you wanted to. True!
True dat.
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Old 02-19-2011, 03:08 PM
 
Location: San Diego
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Old 03-02-2021, 03:21 PM
 
Location: sonoma county california
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Default Grocerycarts nightmare

I think everyone has turned and looked away from the carts taken and used by the homeless for far too long. I recall 15 years ago this was not such a problem and now I see wagon trains....up to five or six carts bungee corded together. It is going to be virtually impossible to stop it now....and when have any of us known of someone being ticketed and fined for removing grocery carts from stores. Now there should be a law against leaving them up and down the roadsides full of lord knows what. Maybe a reward could be given to return the carts to their original location. Or alarms that will go off if the cart is taken out of the stores parking lot, one that is obnoxious and will not go off for a given amount of time. If we keep turning a blind eye I can't wait to see what things will look like in another couple of years.
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Old 03-02-2021, 06:35 PM
 
Location: Maine
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Iirc there was a supermarket chain in New Jersey that used a coin activated lock mechanism for quite sometime on their carts. They were all linked together and in order to remove one to use it, you had to stick a quarter in a device mounted to the handle. When you returned the cart you reconnected it to another and got your quarter back.
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Old 03-02-2021, 07:58 PM
 
Location: Sunny So. Cal.
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Funny how this wasn't a problem in CA 40 yrs ago.

Gee what happened?
Yes it was. I distinctly remember it being a problem when I was a kid. There were shopping carts all over the neighborhood and a flatbed truck would drive around and pick them all up and return them.
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Old 03-02-2021, 08:42 PM
DKM
 
Location: California
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There isn't law enforcement in general which has led to this type of societal decline. Criminals are seen as victims. There are 3rd world countries passing parts of us by in livability. Not where I live, but LA is actually worse than Mexico City.
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Old 03-02-2021, 09:35 PM
 
Location: On the water.
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There isn't law enforcement in general which has led to this type of societal decline. Criminals are seen as victims. There are 3rd world countries passing parts of us by in livability. Not where I live, but LA is actually worse than Mexico City.
Still at your fantasy of law and order, eh? “Societal decline” from when in human history? “Criminals seen as victims” ... “third world countries passing us by” ... you just feel good tossing out these unsubstantiated concepts I guess. Same as your comments on homelessness: vacuous.
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Old 03-03-2021, 12:07 PM
DKM
 
Location: California
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Still at your fantasy of law and order, eh? “Societal decline” from when in human history? “Criminals seen as victims” ... “third world countries passing us by” ... you just feel good tossing out these unsubstantiated concepts I guess. Same as your comments on homelessness: vacuous.
When petty theft is decriminalized, it leads to this. Often they have defenders saying "times are hard" and other such nonsense. These are entitled people who have no idea what life is like in a poor country who think people here have it even remotely difficult, and they want to decriminalize crime. Since they can't, they attack the structure of law enforcement "defund police" and also vote in prosecutors who won't charge people for crimes. And beyond that they harass people online for pointing out the obvious (thanks for making my point).

San Francisco is an obvious example of this. And yes, society there is definitely on decline. Most people I know won't ever go back due to encountering dangerous people on drugs. Visiting a midwestern or southern city by comparison is a totally different world. California is a mostly great place to live despite the rampant enabling of drug addicts in various parts of it.
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