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    Working at a job site one day and this bum rolls up with his cart and finds a shady spot to park it. He starts emptying the cart out and so some of us start to watch wondering what's up. Gets it empty then starts making a small fire then flips over the cart on the fire, pulls out a steak and starts living the high life.

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    Hahaha, that's pretty darned funny KZBell lol A bum's grill'n techniques eh.

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    Cooking on a shopping cart must add a New Flavor to Your meat .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bandit View Post
    Cooking on a shopping cart must add a New Flavor to Your meat .
    Yea, that chrome plating might ad a twist to the flavor.
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    A & P grocery cart

    What u gonna do, this is being offered free here locally....The store has been closed for years

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    I thought Fee-Bay was pushing everyone to offer Free Shipping for a Better Buyers Experience ? LOL

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    Germany has the best shopping cart theft protection i've seen.
    You insert a $1 coin into the cart to unlock it from the line of carts. So you don't steal it or leave it in the parking lot, your coin comes back to you when you lock it back up with the other carts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ParkerFlyer4 View Post
    Germany has the best shopping cart theft protection i've seen.
    You insert a $1 coin into the cart to unlock it from the line of carts. So you don't steal it or leave it in the parking lot, your coin comes back to you when you lock it back up with the other carts.
    Kind of like Alde's food mart. Except theirs is a quarter, but still no one leaves them in the parking lot, they all seem to bring them back to the store.

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    I see lots of carts turned over and used as benches at bus stops.

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    What you can do with a shopping cart the yard wont take .....

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    I kinda like this one, hook another onto the back and use as a trailer to pick up local curb scrap.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mechanic688 View Post
    I kinda like this one, hook another onto the back and use as a trailer to pick up local curb scrap.
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    And if you run out of room you just hook another one to that one and you can have a shopping cart train. On the weekends you can sell rides to the neighborhood kids.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Craasher View Post
    And if you run out of room you just hook another one to that one and you can have a shopping cart train. On the weekends you can sell rides to the neighborhood kids.
    Or take it to the races, like they have for lawnmowers and coolers,,,

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    Guess thats the great thing about small towns, the folks that borrow carts around here bring them back on the next trip to the store.

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    wow, speaking of bums and carts, living ar0ound sanfrancisco, ive seen shopping cart trains bigger than my truck, funny watching 3 homeless guys and a dog lugg it down the street, they should have a police escort and a wideload sign
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    any time i have a bent up cart I'll go to the supermarket and get a letter of permission .

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    Metal theft is big in my grandmas neighborhood someone stole a $200 grate and probably got about $5 for it!

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