Why it’s (basically) legal to steal shopping carts

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Stealing anything else from a grocery store will get you tackled and zip-tied, so why have we collectively decided that ripping off a $300 cart is fine?
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  • @dissimulii
    @dissimulii4 жыл бұрын

    i'm gonna start snatching up carts for material for hobby welding. it's not theft, i'm cleaning up the sidewalks of walmarts litter.

  • @lolgamerxd8963

    @lolgamerxd8963

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Just don't be yourself won’t you get caught and fines?

  • @owenmclain3327

    @owenmclain3327

    3 жыл бұрын

    Still theft and the property of Walmart .

  • @captinzoom
    @captinzoom5 жыл бұрын

    There is a whole industry of people driving around picking up lost shopping carts.

  • @patricklawler7650

    @patricklawler7650

    3 жыл бұрын

    There's a whole industry of shopping cart containment systems that have made that industry entirely obsolete.

  • @jordanfourtwenty9694

    @jordanfourtwenty9694

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@patricklawler7650 there's a whole industry of dummies making obvious comments online.

  • @johnnybrown9581

    @johnnybrown9581

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jordanfourtwenty9694 people pay for that? I know what I’m doing for a living!

  • @chelo2148
    @chelo21484 жыл бұрын

    i just want a shopping cart

  • @i_am_alive_inside9656

    @i_am_alive_inside9656

    4 жыл бұрын

    same

  • @rensellars5972

    @rensellars5972

    4 жыл бұрын

    Same😔

  • @TheOdeszy

    @TheOdeszy

    3 жыл бұрын

    Me too djhdjejdisj

  • @EDP-dq5ly

    @EDP-dq5ly

    2 жыл бұрын

    I stole one today from an abandoned store

  • @pzycoai5168

    @pzycoai5168

    Жыл бұрын

    I have one

  • @Nyx-ny4hn
    @Nyx-ny4hn3 жыл бұрын

    used this video to convince my mom to help me steal a shopping cart. She still won't but she told me the nearest place to get one. Wish me luck

  • @trevorthespongebobguy

    @trevorthespongebobguy

    3 жыл бұрын

    Did you get one

  • @Nyx-ny4hn

    @Nyx-ny4hn

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@trevorthespongebobguy i had to buy one second hand, but yes! I finally have one

  • @nerdson09

    @nerdson09

    5 ай бұрын

    @@Nyx-ny4hn bro i just found one on the street and now have it in my backyard

  • @marief9062
    @marief90624 жыл бұрын

    A shopping cart got left outside my house so it’s now mine

  • @netherbrickgamer

    @netherbrickgamer

    3 жыл бұрын

    Make sure to dispose of it in a river when your done with it.

  • @lammy9733

    @lammy9733

    3 жыл бұрын

    The constitution supports your decision

  • @artificial7593

    @artificial7593

    3 жыл бұрын

    There are three outside my house right now, lol about to go and get one for my room!

  • @kennedicampbell410

    @kennedicampbell410

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@netherbrickgamer why a river

  • @manthing351
    @manthing3515 жыл бұрын

    In NY where there is a $0.05 charge for plastic bags, people have been stealing the plastic baskets to save a nickel!

  • @visionquest414

    @visionquest414

    3 жыл бұрын

    I walk right out if bj's with the big cart.. walk it a few blocks then take my groceries out with th . Bags on them and walk the rest of the way home.. it sure does help

  • @angierose1143

    @angierose1143

    3 жыл бұрын

    That's funny. Bags in LA are 15 cents but people usually just pay or bring their own bags. They just ask you how many bags you want and most people don't even bat an eye. You can also just push a shopping cart to the car and put everything loose. You don't always need a bad

  • @toxic._.skullzanimations2232

    @toxic._.skullzanimations2232

    2 жыл бұрын

    we have to pay 20p in the uk (lowestoft)

  • @robertmotion

    @robertmotion

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@toxic._.skullzanimations2232 that’s $.24(US) for a bag. crazy. i wouldn’t pay it. in these times we live in, it’s just more cost effective to buy a $1-$5 reusable bag ….and keep your “bag” no matter how small. /Bklyn👑

  • @dicklessjohnson8029
    @dicklessjohnson80295 жыл бұрын

    I found a whole train of shopping carts from Walmart next to my apartment complex and sometimes my friends and I get 1-2 and push each other or race

  • @omeganeoz

    @omeganeoz

    3 жыл бұрын

    i sometimes hang with my friends and when there is random carts around we take them and drive around

  • @ronkiusbonkius
    @ronkiusbonkius Жыл бұрын

    "Hey Ferb, I know what we are gonna do today!"

  • @emmasmith971
    @emmasmith9713 жыл бұрын

    I just saw a picture of these two people at night, one in the cart, and one driving. And that made me think. I wanna steal a shopping cart with my bsf just to say we did and for the memories/thrill. I made this whole plan. And if you drove it around your street, can’t you just say you bought it online?

  • @sebastianharris5185

    @sebastianharris5185

    2 жыл бұрын

    i just did this yesterday

  • @yvanlara7459

    @yvanlara7459

    2 жыл бұрын

    I just did it today

  • @xdterm5125

    @xdterm5125

    2 жыл бұрын

    Just did this last kilometer

  • @shaochiavang

    @shaochiavang

    2 жыл бұрын

    Just did this last year.

  • @JesusChristWithPipeBomb

    @JesusChristWithPipeBomb

    Жыл бұрын

    Just did this an hour ago

  • @jeron9272
    @jeron92724 жыл бұрын

    Just get a van or something, park in a grocery store parking lot next to a shopping cart, yeet it into the van, VOILA

  • @f0llis954
    @f0llis9543 жыл бұрын

    These carts are public domain Ricky!

  • @omarqasirov8754

    @omarqasirov8754

    2 жыл бұрын

    He just waltzes in there and becomes king of the carts!

  • @crackcobaine
    @crackcobaine4 жыл бұрын

    LMAO OWNED i still got this shopping cart in my bedroom

  • @lolgamerxd8963

    @lolgamerxd8963

    3 жыл бұрын

    lmao please elaborate

  • @crackcobaine

    @crackcobaine

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@lolgamerxd8963 stole it what more do u wanna know

  • @lolgamerxd8963

    @lolgamerxd8963

    3 жыл бұрын

    Crack Cobaine so you put it in your room?’

  • @crackcobaine

    @crackcobaine

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@lolgamerxd8963 yep, my bedroom

  • @cmslash4814

    @cmslash4814

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@crackcobaine ayy I just got one today

  • @nokife
    @nokife Жыл бұрын

    imma show this video to the cops if they come

  • @Cuhh346
    @Cuhh3462 жыл бұрын

    Watched this for my “bring anything except a backpack day” at school

  • @Darkslayer-kw3iw

    @Darkslayer-kw3iw

    2 жыл бұрын

    Same 😂

  • @Iamjo3y
    @Iamjo3y3 жыл бұрын

    If your not shopping does it just become “CART” ?

  • @guxsus13

    @guxsus13

    2 жыл бұрын

    yes

  • @FormulePoeme807
    @FormulePoeme8074 жыл бұрын

    The video basically says that it's not legal but nobody care

  • @renegade637
    @renegade637 Жыл бұрын

    Technically, if you find a shopping cart in a random location, it can be considered abandoned property. Take any identifiers off of it and who'll be the wiser?

  • @tmoney8435
    @tmoney84352 жыл бұрын

    one winter there was a huge pile of snow in the parking lot of our local mall. so we took our cart and hauled it to the top of the pile in broad daylight. at the time i thought it was pretty awesome

  • @nebulouspranks
    @nebulouspranks3 жыл бұрын

    i stole one from stop n shop and for stopped by 2 cops we told them we just found it and decided to take it and they said put it back but we brought it 2 miles to my house lol

  • @delroku
    @delroku11 ай бұрын

    "NOOOOOO YOU MUST RETURN THE SHOPPING CART!!! THAT'S THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF SOCIETY!!!" Me:

  • @aliceannewidmeyer9144
    @aliceannewidmeyer91443 ай бұрын

    Ok story time! Me and my bsf took an abandoned shopping cart that we had been seeing for about 2 weeks on the tarmac of a school, and we took it. It was so much fun for about 15 minutes until this bitter old guy started yelling at us. We were being respectful and trying to explain but when we told him we had found it he would just say 'no you didnt you stole it' and then just walked away after we finally got paralyzed from fear. I kid you not 2 weeks that had been on that tarmac. We had also walked past 20 other people or so and they didnt say anything. I'd like to go back and find him and show him this video

  • @Wafflechickn
    @Wafflechickn Жыл бұрын

    Bro tried guilt tripping me in the end after stealing a shopping cart

  • @zombifiedlamp4154
    @zombifiedlamp4154 Жыл бұрын

    Somebody once left a shopping cart on my lawn, who knows why?

  • @qazzack
    @qazzack5 жыл бұрын

    holy fack BUBS how are ya gunna pay for your kitties?

  • @shoyo1462

    @shoyo1462

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lmao

  • @DosBear
    @DosBear4 ай бұрын

    I used to cart my groceries home all the time. I wasn't stealing the cart I was using it. They hire guys to go around with trucks to pick them up. So I"m creating jobs. Many people just leave the quarter as a tip for the guy that goes around and gathers them but little do they know that they are not allowed to keep it in some of the stores they work at. Some stores supply special token to unlock them to avoid that issue as well as to keep people from wanting to take them.

  • @nickmakroglous6136
    @nickmakroglous6136 Жыл бұрын

    Bro I’m literally watching this in a shopping cart I took from under a bridge

  • @TheRealFOSFOR
    @TheRealFOSFOR5 жыл бұрын

    So it's not legal at all. You could almost say that: Stealing is illegal. I'm pretty sure the object you are stealing has nothing to do with it?

  • @hollydowns2279

    @hollydowns2279

    4 жыл бұрын

    It should not but here we own the machine that makes drugs and give all the profits to pharmaceuticals

  • @superALA-ff6us

    @superALA-ff6us

    3 жыл бұрын

    Oh no! How will multi-billion dollar companies recover from people taking $150 carts! The horror!

  • @what-uc
    @what-uc4 ай бұрын

    Just say you're taking the shopping to your car. Your car just happens to be at your house, and non-existent

  • @AmericanDumbass
    @AmericanDumbass10 ай бұрын

    I just want to have a shopping cart, just tell me how to gave a shopping cart

  • @techtinkerin
    @techtinkerin Жыл бұрын

    Hey you aren't gangsta unless you've taken your shopping home in the kwiksave trolley!! Then thrown it on a railway track of course..

  • @lavalampluva55401
    @lavalampluva55401 Жыл бұрын

    And then people complain about the price of food going up. People have driven off with the motorized shopping carts acting like they own it. We live in a very selfish culture.

  • @chadkline4268
    @chadkline42682 жыл бұрын

    They may cost 100s new, but at best, they could only sue or prosecute for the used value. Which would be nearly nothing.

  • @gamblenpc9996
    @gamblenpc99962 жыл бұрын

    Currently trying to get my mom on board with the idea of taking one from the local Ralph’s

  • @jedpdpjhh-hu4rb
    @jedpdpjhh-hu4rb Жыл бұрын

    Thanks very helpful

  • @davydude7174
    @davydude71749 ай бұрын

    Rex Huermann scrapyard owners like Greg and Jerome, repetitive stalking specific dollar general shopping carts from repetitive stalking of certain inner city dollar general locations like Rex Huermann, only with shopping carts.

  • @davydude7174
    @davydude71749 ай бұрын

    Rex Huermann scrapyard owners targeting shopping carts at inner city dollar general locations.

  • @jonlloyd837
    @jonlloyd8373 жыл бұрын

    I’m from Barrie and you can actually see the shopper carts in local creeks

  • @a.shopping_cart
    @a.shopping_cart Жыл бұрын

    aight im heading to walmart to steal my brethren

  • @LilsmeattYT
    @LilsmeattYT2 жыл бұрын

    I took one today 😂

  • @Iheartyourmother69
    @Iheartyourmother69 Жыл бұрын

    So you're saying I can go to Walmart, grab a cart, and go home with it? And I can just keep it?

  • @star_vibe123
    @star_vibe123 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks now it's time to go make a go cart

  • @henrys3629
    @henrys36292 жыл бұрын

    Someone asked me where the carts were at Dollar Tree and if I worked there. Um, no I wear a red shirt, have never worked there and couldn't care less where the carts are. Our town is littered with stolen carts and bike parts.

  • @zippyzoom8786
    @zippyzoom8786 Жыл бұрын

    So in other words I'm safe and shopping cart racing is a go

  • @thomasmaggio1718
    @thomasmaggio17182 жыл бұрын

    The cost of the stolen shopping carts get passed on to paying customers.

  • @JavaScrapper

    @JavaScrapper

    2 жыл бұрын

    But the shopping carts have no price tag Which means they’re free

  • @fielr6756
    @fielr67565 жыл бұрын

    I’ve heard that a number of stores in California charge 75 cents for a shopping cart. When you return it you get your 75 cents back. Of course the carts are secured by lock. Many homeless people will stand outside of stores and ask shoppers if they can return their carts for them. That seems like a good way to reduce the number of abandoned carts all over. In fact, if a store enacted that policy they might start getting a lot of long lost carts back

  • @PURENT

    @PURENT

    2 жыл бұрын

    Why would you do that when you can just sell it to another store for $18.

  • @masteroflaz
    @masteroflaz Жыл бұрын

    i just want a walmart shopping cart so i can spray paint it golden and have someone push me around my school

  • @sciencemile
    @sciencemile2 жыл бұрын

    I found this vid looking for how to buy the same sort of grocery carts they have (everything else I can find isn't the same). They seem very resistant to enabling this purchase themselves, I don't know why. Guess my hunt continues.

  • @ukhanddryers

    @ukhanddryers

    11 ай бұрын

    If you’re still looking for a brand new one, get in touch with Wanzl, who are the company which make the large majority of shopping trolleys.

  • @jjjosephr
    @jjjosephr Жыл бұрын

    I am from Calgary and my neighborhood is full of shopping carts . Its so annoying . I had to push some away to the main street and I found out one guy keeps bringing them he even put one in front of him home . I removed 2 he keeps bringing them back mostly walmart carts . Its frustrating when you drive and see them around can hit them with your vehicule they are hazard . its very bad ! lots of people steal them especially natives and crack heads . hope the city will do something about it they are everywhere!

  • @jackmackinnon2590
    @jackmackinnon25902 жыл бұрын

    Me causally grabbing on to make as a go kart body

  • @catfree
    @catfree2 жыл бұрын

    Who doesn't want an all yellow Dollar General shopping?

  • @NoteOnATuba
    @NoteOnATuba10 ай бұрын

    Each stolen cart is a felony. Police like seeing these on some properties, it gives them probable cause to enter the yard and have a good look around.

  • @persephone8950
    @persephone89502 жыл бұрын

    I just want to throw pillows and blankets in a shopping cart and take a nap, beds are too comfy

  • @tomservo3401
    @tomservo34014 жыл бұрын

    Idk where you live but around here pushing a shopping cart around town is a surefire way to attract police and idk about walmart but savemart and especially costco will press charges.

  • @antiacolyte
    @antiacolyte4 жыл бұрын

    If I were to do this I’d take the cart, use it for a while, then bring it back. Just borrowing, not stealing...

  • @johnishaxo

    @johnishaxo

    2 жыл бұрын

    Exactly!! Last week, I walked to save a lot that’s up the street from my house and I was buying pans and stuff for thanksgiving. Save a lot didn’t have the bigger pans. So I walked to family dollar which was two to three blocks down from save a lot. After I came back from family dollar, I went back to save alot to get some other items that I forgot. When I got done paying for my things. And I was about to walk out the store. I notice that the one of my bags from family dollar had holes in it. I didn’t asked for extra bags, because the hole wasn’t bad so I tried to make things work. When I started walking.. the family dollar bag broke. I went back to save a lot and I was going to borrow their cart so I could put my things in the cart. I had a-lot of stuff in my hands and I had wine and I didn’t want it to break. The store security guard stopped me and he was very rude. He was like what are you doing with that cart I can’t let you take the cart. I was very calm about the situation. And I politely told the store security guard that I don’t have a car. My bags has holes in them.. I was going to borrow the cart so I can drop my things off at home and I was going to bring it back. The store security guard just kept saying I can’t let you do that. Can you please put the cart back. I didn’t argue, I was trying to fix my bags so it wouldn’t break anymore. I was very upset because I don’t have a car and it was starting to get cold outside and I literally walked to two places and I was trying to get back home. the store security went inside the store and gave me a lot of bags. I said nicely no thank you bc I was calling z trip to get a ride but I didn’t have any service. So I walked home as fast as I could. And I did make it? I thank God that I didn’t go to jail. But let me tell you what the same security guard did: I told my friends the situation and my friend gave me a ride to the store.. me and my friend were getting more stuff for thanksgiving, and we literally walked in the store. The store security guard started following us around. And it was making me and my friend very uncomfortable.. it was a cart that a customer left to the side they didn’t want to the cart. I took the cart bc me and my friend were getting extra items. When I was about to leave. I noticed that the store security guard had went back to his spot where he was. And I took my things out the cart and I left. He was looking out the window from the store and he saw that my friend gave me a ride. My friend said to me why didn’t I asked for help and I told her that the store security was making me feel uncomfortable and he was being weird. I went back to save a lot today bc I ran out other things.. and the same store security guard wasn’t there, I feel he heard what I said the other day.

  • @xdterm5125

    @xdterm5125

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@johnishaxo my god you don’t need to write your whole life story

  • @spermiarz.wykurwisty
    @spermiarz.wykurwisty Жыл бұрын

    Now i know what ill do tomorrow

  • @thehillbillygamer2183
    @thehillbillygamer21832 жыл бұрын

    Thomas fence 15 days in jail second offense 30 days in jail third offense a one year in jail

  • @crownedmedia7936
    @crownedmedia7936 Жыл бұрын

    I just stole a shopping cart from some apartment so I just wanted to make sure

  • @arcajeth626
    @arcajeth6262 жыл бұрын

    The people who complain about prosecuting shopping cart thefts should buy all the stolen shopping carts. With no prosecution of this and shoplifting, Amazon will be the onlu place to shop in the near future..

  • @davydude7174
    @davydude71749 ай бұрын

    Greg and Jerome love buying the dollar general carts from that Rex Huermann mamzer in the Orange truck. Crack cocaining mamzers. Go figure.

  • @chickenninja4013
    @chickenninja40132 жыл бұрын

    There’s a Walmart shopping cart in an apartment dumpster near me I’m gonnna take it to my house and take the branding off

  • @spicybbqchicken

    @spicybbqchicken

    2 жыл бұрын

    I found a home depot cart in the middle of the woods near my house lol, im taking it

  • @brianmorris1410
    @brianmorris14102 жыл бұрын

    So they can sully the neighborhood

  • @djcrazy2685
    @djcrazy26852 жыл бұрын

    anybody suddenly go to craigslist n look up bikes,lol!!

  • @hyperfan_victorice1780
    @hyperfan_victorice17803 жыл бұрын

    But can you steal cart?

  • @A_90210
    @A_902102 жыл бұрын

    Don't give people incentive to steal the carts

  • @JavaScrapper

    @JavaScrapper

    2 жыл бұрын

    But they’re free

  • @ethanpegg
    @ethanpegg2 жыл бұрын

    This is NOT legal

  • @michaelmaxfield3744
    @michaelmaxfield37442 жыл бұрын

    Rapist=83, shoppi=83 ng=21 at=21 at carts. Shopping carts

  • @RecklessVac
    @RecklessVac3 жыл бұрын

    I did it with a dick store. I removed a few things from the cart and I sold it to a scrap dealer, which crush them, compress them and give me a price ($1-5 per cart)

  • @JackMcCoy331
    @JackMcCoy331Ай бұрын

    Not in Florida

  • @thehillbillygamer2183
    @thehillbillygamer21832 жыл бұрын

    The place in force bike theft I mean that's private property where I live somebody steals about the police will investigate it it's theft it's something that's stolen that's ridiculous that's laziness on the count of the place

  • @tsotnekortua6164
    @tsotnekortua61642 жыл бұрын

    I need one to make a motor cart. So i can take it???

  • @youngmasterzhi
    @youngmasterzhi3 жыл бұрын

    Carts are public domain -Bubbles

  • @djcrazy2685
    @djcrazy26853 жыл бұрын

    just have the hand carts u carry!!

  • @josipstapic5424
    @josipstapic54242 жыл бұрын

    yea man !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @Nix_IoI
    @Nix_IoI2 жыл бұрын

    Me and my friends got some from outside just knocked over in the parking lot at CVS and we took two and people were noticing us just sprinting in them and once we walked a few blocks there's an employee walking towards us and he looked pissed so we threw the carts on the road and ran 😂

  • @adamhortian6185
    @adamhortian61853 жыл бұрын

    A pet peeve of mine forsure. Not sure how people justify that this is not stealing.

  • @TheKidWilderness
    @TheKidWilderness3 жыл бұрын

    If I find a shopping cart with no branding on it in a river can I take it?

  • @andreiiscru.6042

    @andreiiscru.6042

    3 жыл бұрын

    TS Weekly yes

  • @itwasntme6732
    @itwasntme67324 жыл бұрын

    Rich or not, if an item is not yours, don't take it. Its steal not your item. Lol lol

  • @r0xjo0
    @r0xjo03 жыл бұрын

    Except it's not.

  • @rehanahmed5261
    @rehanahmed52613 жыл бұрын

    i brang a shopping cart to shcool

  • @EatMyDick
    @EatMyDick2 жыл бұрын

    I still did not understand why its not illegal lol great vid nah jk

  • @Pinkyjojo29
    @Pinkyjojo29 Жыл бұрын

    Stealing a shop cart is theft, and you can be charged for it .

  • @willyd1127
    @willyd11272 жыл бұрын

    Sorry but stealing is wrong! Didn’t your parents teach you right from wrong? I don’t know why you would encourage people to do this.

  • @JavaScrapper

    @JavaScrapper

    2 жыл бұрын

    But they’re free

  • @mrg8255
    @mrg82555 жыл бұрын

    For gods sake don’t you have any real news?

  • @kylieh7823

    @kylieh7823

    3 жыл бұрын

    homie chill

  • @littleaqua32
    @littleaqua322 жыл бұрын

    It may not be illegal, but it’s still a dick move to steal shopping carts from the grocery store because the store would have to pay to replace them and that takes money out of their employees paychecks

  • @haropro97

    @haropro97

    2 жыл бұрын

    They can’t dock employees pay for that, it comes out of the stores profits. Still a dick move tho I bet if you asked the cart pusher he’d give you a wonky one

  • @littleaqua32

    @littleaqua32

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@haropro97 personally wouldn’t blame the cart pusher if they did