http://www.metafilter.com/tags/shoppingcartsculpture Posts tagged with 'shoppingcartsculpture' at MetaFilter. Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:36:22 -0800 Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:36:22 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/58380/I%2DDont%2DCare%2DWhat%2DYou%2DDo%2DWith%2DThem%2DI%2DJust%2DWant%2DOne%2DWithout%2DA%2DRickety%2DWheel The utilitarian shopping cart has an <a href="http://realcartu.com/goldman/">interesting history</a>. February is <a href="http://orion.csuchico.edu/Pages/vol40issue4/o.ben.html">"Return Shopping Carts To The Supermarket Month" </a> in America (yes, it really <a href="http://www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/broadcast/radio/profile_america/009530.html">is</a>). Apparently shopping cart loss is such a problem that there is an industry of <a href="http://www.cscrc.net/">shopping cart bounty hunters</a>. Some cities seek to make it a <a href="http://www.icsc.org/srch/sct/current/sct0500/04d.html">crime</a> for <a href="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/09/19/18312750.php">homeless people </a>to possess shopping carts. Some people would rather make <a href="http://forums.canadiancontent.net/off-topic/48721-trolley-good-show-metallic-art.html">art</a> and <a href="http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/kap/gallery/gal168.html">sculpture</a> out of them. <small>Previously on Metafilter: <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/3110">Shopping Cart Abuse </a>and <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/49762/The-stray-shopping-cart-project">The Stray Shopping Cart Project</a>.</small> tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.58380 Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:36:22 -0800 shoppingcart shoppingcartart shoppingcartsculpture shoppingcarttheft amyms