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- rkettner, on 10/12/2007, -1/+487Gotta love the title... cause the cart-boy *loved* going to work every other day, right?
- Billiam627, on 10/12/2007, -7/+328Its beautiful.
- FormulaVette, on 10/30/2007, -7/+199Its a cart circle! The aliens got bored with crops...
- LogicBomB, on 10/12/2007, -9/+170My friends did something similar when they worked at a grocery store. The store never kept the carts locked up so 5 of them went at night, took every cart and placed it in a parking spot upsidedown so that no cars could park anywhere. They then blocked the entrace of the parking lot with carts as well.
A few pictures were taken but I don't have them on-hand. The manager and cart-boy for that day were less than pleased though I can tell you that. Everyone got a good laugh otherwise though.
They now keep their carts locked by a thick chain running through each and every cart. - tonythespy, on 10/12/2007, -28/+169Somebody Call Mel Gibson and get their squirt guns ready!
- InsomniaSlim, on 10/12/2007, -4/+134First time I've ever seen it, though. And I doubt I'd be searching Digg for "shopping cart circle." I don't really mind the duplicates...
Feels like we need a "It was shown before, but have YOU ever seen this?" category on Digg... or maybe a "Revitalize" action for people who want to repost it? - Billdozer, on 10/12/2007, -6/+122@ rkettner:
Yeah, I was one of those 'cart boys'. I think I would have quit on the spot if I showed up and had to deal with this.
Nothing surpasses the pure hatred I had for people who couldnt push their damn carts 10 feet to a cart return in the middle of the lot. People suck. - praisethelard, on 06/06/2008, -2/+97Yep...I was a cart attendant. It doesn't suck too much as you're just out there collecting carts and bringing them in. It's kind of relaxing. Except when you find a cart with a rolled up diaper in it. Yeah, I ran in to a few of those.
- citrusfizz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+95i live about 1 1/2 blocks from where this picture was taken.. its in goleta, ca
- InsomniaSlim, on 10/12/2007, -9/+99Move along, nothing more to see here. Ignore the cranky douchebag who used to push shopping carts.
Seriously, man... you're killing my Friday. - InsomniaSlim, on 10/12/2007, -10/+74@tonythespy: It took me a second, but I finally got your reference... mostly as I was trying to think of my own crop-circle joke.
Not bad. - aquax, on 10/12/2007, -1/+65Hey, I live there too :-) I didn't recognize it at first, but that's the Costco parking lot.
- PDelahanty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+62It would have been better if there was a car in the middle.
- Yareking, on 10/12/2007, -2/+56Its art ... in a way...
- insovietrussia, on 10/12/2007, -2/+55I'm writing this on a computer. Just in case anyone is interested:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer - 35mm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+54Now add one of those electric pushers somewhere in the loop so it goes around and around.
- HP844182, on 10/12/2007, -2/+54For those that are digging me down...I meant that as in the losers who leave them there. I work at a grocery store too and have the occasional run in with a dirty diaper. What the hell are people thinking when they throw that ***** out?
- afx1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+51@billdozer
"Yeah, I was one of those 'cart boys'. Nothing surpasses the pure hatred I had for people who couldnt push their damn carts 10 feet to a cart return in the middle of the lot."
Dugg up for pure hatred. - Iriel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+50@ rkettner:
It's better than dealing with customers (^_-) - OdinEye, on 10/12/2007, -6/+53For a while it seemed like the "this is old" posts stopped.
Now they are back. Oh joy.
Just because you spend all day in your mom's basement looking for things online doesn't mean that the rest of us do. If it's old to you, move on. I could care less if you've seen it before. - Sparkster185, on 10/12/2007, -6/+48I love how people try and act 1337 because they've seen every article to hit the front page. If you haven't, you're just not as cool.
- dvddesign, on 10/12/2007, -0/+39I had to push carts at Wal-Mart before they had those electric liability-saving devices. I once managed a line of 74 carts at once. It was a mighty behemoth, and a record in the store for a few months amongst the stockers. I had to take a running start at it, and the back cart was elevated at 3/4's my arm length over my head to get it moving.
- NicksVideo, on 10/12/2007, -51/+89***** old.
Applied Geometry:
* Digital Print (archival ink on photo paper mounted on aluminum)
* H 44" x W 66"
* May 2004
A circle made by following the natural curve in a line of shopping carts. Costco parking lot Goleta, CA. 6:00 am May 5, 2004.
More from the same guy who did this:
http://www.robertwechsler.com/projects.html - IHOLDMYPOOPIN, on 10/12/2007, -6/+42Why would you need a chain running through every cart? Wouldn't the last and first cart be sufficient as long as there is no slack in the chain?
- gtlogic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+35Actually, I don't know what you guys are talking about. if something like this happened everyday, I'd look forward to being the cart-boy.
- crawfishsoul, on 10/12/2007, -7/+40"What the hell are people thinking when they throw that ***** out?"
They're thinking they don't want it stinking up their own car, why not let the minimum wage cart boy deal with it? - HP844182, on 10/12/2007, -13/+44"Except when you find a cart with a rolled up diaper in it."
Wow...I just thought it was the losers around here that did that : / - brettt, on 10/12/2007, -3/+32uh, in case anyone wanted to learn a bit about...uh....belgium....
- LandStander, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27That's job security for all you cart wranglers
- livefire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24This is an art project. It's not a prank. Posted almost 2 months ago on notcot.org.
- Joab, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23Could then even physically be seperated without like 10 people pulling them apart at trajectory angles?
- Warblade, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21@billdozer
I was never a 'cart boy' but I agree. I can't stand the people that can't return their carts to the proper locations. It's just pure laziness. - DooM, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22>> They now keep their carts locked by a thick chain running through each and every cart.
I wonder where they've spent more time/money since the prank - total amount of cleanup time for one prank vs. running a thick chain through every single cart every single night. - markdr123, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17...with the obligatory misspelling of tomorrow.
- AndrewDB, on 01/10/2008, -1/+17Mel's probably too busy drinking to care.
- black27696, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14we used to do that all the time pushing carts, largest we ever did was three hundred of them. That was around midnight on "power washing day" where we had to move all the carts to the other side of the lot to get washed. It took three of us pushing from the back and 7 people steering, but by God we moved it!
- kitwaites, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18What? How on earth do you know the intended stacking radius for a shopping trolley?
And it's jaws of life, without and apostophe. The jaws don't own life. - cataphoresis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Glad to hear your store wasn't the only one where us Code-1 idiots had cart-pushing contests.
Man, that job sucked ass. Pushing carts in the Florida sun... - cawpin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14I was wondering where it was because of the mountains in the background. Is that CompUSA closing? heh
- maglob, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16Cause we don't have a picture section
- decromin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Maybe a pizza trophy ...
- RexMaxus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13What topic would you suggest if 'offbeat news' is not good enough?
- TechyLah, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Those carts are over-stuffed into a circle with much smaller stacking radius than intended.
It has a self re-enforcing edge integrity that should make it a b---- to pry open.
Multiple simultaneous jaws' of life will have to be used. - scottc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10The same guy did this:
http://www.robertwechsler.com/thebest.html
Now that looks like fun! - NicksVideo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Costco, actually. A CompUSA just happens to be in the background.
- musicbear, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11@odineye..
Preach on brother...
I too thought we'd lost the "old story!" nazis. Depending on how you have your filters set up, and depending on how often you check digg, there are many stories new to you when they make it through your filters a second or third time around. Some of us don't sit in front of digg all day long... so don't waste your time AND OUR TIME clicking through AND COMMENTING on stories you don't want to read or see again!! - mdmadph, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8in this guy's defense, he's probably just used to having to constantly explain what (and where) Belgium is. Seriously, look at it. It's like France's backyard or something.
- shmatt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8seriously, was it on here yesterday or something? then I would say, yeah it's a dupe. But if this is old, hasn't been on digg for a while, it's NOT a dupe, cause some people haven't seen it. Notice how digg took away the "Old News" bury option a while ago? That is why. Just because you've seen it before doesn't mean it's not worthy of being posted.
I'd rather do away with all the blogspam than worry about old news. - elhaf, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8The only thing ironic about that song is that it has no examples of irony in it.
- assum09, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Oh sorry, I'll just move it right over to the Shopping Cart Circle section of Digg, if that makes you happy?
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