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I've gone out of my way multiple times to put up multiple cats that were blocking parking spaces, including handicap spaces. While the handicap ones make it seem like the person is an extra asshole, I wonder if it's the handicap person that leaves it there and it just moves into the space. There's are very few stores that put a corral by handicap spaces.
As a combination cart pusher and cleaner for a supermarket, absolutely fuck anyone that doesn't return their cart or worse, throws it into a gardenbed
"No one will punish you for not returning the shopping cart, no one will fine you or kill you for not returning the shopping cart..."
Hmmmm, I wonder if this is always true. Maybe somewhere there is someone who does not let such things stand.
Yeah check out the Cart Narcs on YouTube. Absolutely hilarious content.
In Germany (and other parts.od Europe as well to be fair) carts need you to put a coin in them to unchain them from their bay, which you get back when you chain them back up - so yeah, kinda, if you don't put it back you loose your euro
In Germany, shopping carts typically have a deposit system, where you have to insert an Euro into the cart to use it, which you get back when you return it. So that is basically a build in fine for not returning it.
They've started doing it in some places in America with quarters and it works. Turns out the price of laziness is less than 25¢ haha.
In Spain we used to have the same system. However it's been a while since I've seen it, most carts still have the euro slot, but they are not chained, so you don't need to insert a coin.
Some people go as far as to use a tool similar to the one mounted on the front cart to extract their money and still not return the cart they took.
Cart Narcs
The wind howls through the empty parking lot as the dim streetlights flicker above interrupted by the faint screech of an unreturned cart, left abandoned in the cold silence, rolling aimlessly across the asphalt. A masked man steps out of the shadows...
"You think it's nothing. A small act of carelessness, a moment of laziness. But that cart, left adrift, has a price. A price in scraped cars, twisted ankles, in the chaos that spreads like rot in the hearts of men. You see, I don't care about your excuses. I don't care if it's raining, if you're in a hurry. Order is what keeps us human. And you... you spit on it with every cart left behind."
Knuckles crack in the darkness
"I’m the reckoning you never see coming. You think no one’s watching when you shove it into the next spot, but I’m always watching. Every cart out of place, every rule ignored, it leads to something darker, something worse. And that’s where I come in—to stop the small sins before they become something more."
The masked man takes a step forward, his voice low and gravelly.
"I am Cart Noir, the last line of defense between order and chaos. You think it's just a cart? It's never just a cart."
Third option. I park out by an abandoned cart take it inside and use it. Then, like my mother taught me I put it back where I found it.
Am I an animal? An absolute savage? If I then returned the cart after finding it abandoned, then using it, does that make me double good?
It doesn't make you an animal or a savage, it makes you at best willfully ignorant.
If your mother taught you that 2+2=3 but later in life ample evidence shows you that 2+2=4, do you change you mind or still insist that your mother knew best?
Your mother's mindset regarding the returning of carts is called "lowest common denominator", someone else doing something wrong doesn't make it OK for you to do.
Still an animal.
Lawful evil
Yes you are a savage. Putting it back where you found it is not the correct way to do things. It might have been in the 1970s, I don't know when cart corrals first showed up because people were too lazy to take it back to the front of the store.
I don't think they put it back where they found it. It's not worded well but I'm pretty sure they put it up (aka "returns") in the property place when they're done with it.
Yay, I'm good!
Around here there are definitely consequences in the form of pesky looks and headshakes. Well at least coming from me.
I've even helped by putting my nose in the air and saying, "that's ok, I'll put it away for you"