Stealing shopping carts -- really!?

More Metal Items Are Stolen in Little Egg

Real estate signs and shopping carts must be included in the recent rash of metal thefts in Little Egg Harbor that included street grates covering stormwater drains and street signs.
Last week, during its Jan. 12 municipal meeting, the township committee voiced concern over safety issues related to the street sign and grate thefts.
On Monday, real estate saleswoman Margaret Ryan added to the list. She said at least 13 metal signs were stolen from properties listed with Coldwell Banker Red Top Realty in Little Egg. “I called around and asked other agencies and they too have seen them disappear. In total it’s about 24 signs from four different Realtors,” she said.
The signs cost the broker between $60 and $70 and each salesperson pays $20 to list his or her name on a separate part of the sign. The person who has listed the house with the agency also pays $15 for having the sign erected on their property. “That’s a lot of money and although I called the police, I don’t think they took it seriously,” Ryan said.
She also noted that she had gone to the local Family Dollar store and there was only one shopping cart. “I asked the manager and she told me they had 20 but 19 had been taken.” The carts were made of metal.

I have cleaned out many old houses and for some reason people hoard old grocery carts.....What you gonna do....If you cut them up any yard I've ever been to will take them but me being liscensed I have never been questioned because I some times do retail cleanouts

tigerbeetle are you from Jersey?

Originally Posted by tigerbeetle

” Ryan said.
She also noted that she had gone to the local Family Dollar store and there was only one shopping cart. “I asked the manager and she told me they had 20 but 19 had been taken.” The carts were made of metal.

lol omg so funny im adding that to my signature

Back in December I was dumping scrap iron and a guy with a load of shopping carts and those big orange roller carts they have at home depot backed in to the right of me. They told him to stop unloading them and said they dont accept them here. as I was leaving another truck drove passed me with shopping carts. I worked at a grocery store for a long time. Shopping carts have "property of Store name" ingraved on the bottom back by the wheels. sometimes....

I know when I was a kid I use to find shopping carts down by the river from local grocery stores. As a kid we would take them back to the store and the manager would give us a finders fee for them. I'm sure giving us a couple bucks for bringing a cart back to them was cheaper than buying a new one. I wonder if they still do that.

No but I would pick up the 12 or so i see on the sidewalk the homeless guys tried to sell to the scrapyard and take them back to the store if they were paying my gas to do so...

When I was younger me and a couple friends used to ride around at night in my old beat up Bronco 2...(you know, like cool kids do), and one of our favorite things was go to stores and see how fast we could push the carts through the lot with my truck. Then I picked up an S10 Blazer for $200, and while it didn't push carts well, I could hook them onto the trailer hitch and they would support themselves on the spare tire mounted to the back of the truck. Usually we did this to prank friends, you know, haul a shopping cart to their house and dump it in their front yard. Once, for poops and laughs, we pulled one onto a country road, and I managed to get the truck to 65 mph for 5 minutes before it finally hit a bump and jumped off...

I'm not proud of my youth.

anyone here watch trailer park boys?

That is quite the feat.....5.4167 miles with a shopping cart on your bumper @ 65 mph.

Originally Posted by tigerbeetle

More Metal Items Are Stolen in Little Egg

Real estate signs and shopping carts must be included in the recent rash of metal thefts in Little Egg Harbor that included street grates covering stormwater drains and street signs.
Last week, during its Jan. 12 municipal meeting, the township committee voiced concern over safety issues related to the street sign and grate thefts.
On Monday, real estate saleswoman Margaret Ryan added to the list. She said at least 13 metal signs were stolen from properties listed with Coldwell Banker Red Top Realty in Little Egg. “I called around and asked other agencies and they too have seen them disappear. In total it’s about 24 signs from four different Realtors,” she said.
The signs cost the broker between $60 and $70 and each salesperson pays $20 to list his or her name on a separate part of the sign. The person who has listed the house with the agency also pays $15 for having the sign erected on their property. “That’s a lot of money and although I called the police, I don’t think they took it seriously,” Ryan said.
She also noted that she had gone to the local Family Dollar store and there was only one shopping cart. “I asked the manager and she told me they had 20 but 19 had been taken.” The carts were made of metal.

That's gotta be either Tuckerton or Mystic Islands. Needless to say the earlier story on the idiot that fell down the shaft with his brothers, that's where they were from.