None of the others in town have these, thought it was unusual enough to share
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Pretty much every store in my city has these, didn't realize they weren't a thing everywhere.
It's a litmus test for what type of place you live in. I guess you just found out where yours lands.
Whole thread freaking me out. This is a thing some find normal?!
And lemmy be like, "Fuck cars! Build walkable cities! Live like rats in a cage!"
Uh. No thanks. I'll stick to the bleeding edge of town, thanks.
What does this have to do with walkable cities?
It's an anti-theft mechanism to keep people from stealing carts, generally to prevent homeless from taking them.
I don't agree with it, because the hostility toward homeless people these days is disgusting, but that's how it is.
LOL, I went a little wide of my point. And my point was, this is the kinda crap you see in densely populated environments. Having experienced the city and country, I'll take the country all day long. Mammals were not meant to live in packed populations.
Found out the hard way breeding rats in college. Long story, but they had 6 litters one Sunday morning. By Tuesday, those babies were all eaten, no trace. tl;dr: You pack people together, you get bad behavior.
And I hadn't seen it as an anti-homeless thing! That idea has meat on the bones. Yet another case of American's treating the symptoms and not the disease. Wasn't it Chruchill who said, "You can count on Americans to do the right thing, after they've exhausted every other possibility."?
Keep going! I've almost got bingo!