The Center for Prevention of Shopping Cart Abuse » Cart Abuse http://www.shoppingcartabuse.com Fighting for the silver chariot of the parking lot. Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:29:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Bikini Girl Learns Shopping Cart Abuse Does Not Pay http://www.shoppingcartabuse.com/2011/04/14/bikini-girl-learns-shopping-cart-abuse-does-not-pay/ http://www.shoppingcartabuse.com/2011/04/14/bikini-girl-learns-shopping-cart-abuse-does-not-pay/#comments Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:29:18 +0000 luke http://www.shoppingcartabuse.com/?p=481

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]]> http://www.shoppingcartabuse.com/2009/12/27/winter-blues/feed/ 0 MIT Students Discover How to Get Credit for Slapping Together a Frankencart http://www.shoppingcartabuse.com/2009/07/01/mit-students-discover-how-to-get-credit-for-slapping-together-a-frankencart/ http://www.shoppingcartabuse.com/2009/07/01/mit-students-discover-how-to-get-credit-for-slapping-together-a-frankencart/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:43:35 +0000 luke http://www.shoppingcartabuse.com/?p=325 Their peers persevere with projects helping send rockets to the moon and allowing disabled people to get out of the way quicker, but a special group of MIT students are collaborating on a project to stick a lawn mower engine on a shopping cart. The project has been dubbed LOLrioKart – honoring the intrepid Dr. Klaus Spaten von LOLrioKart, a scientist in the former East German Republic who first theorized about welding lawn machinery to shopping carts. The video below shoes a test run on the culmination of this work.

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When the Apartment Therapy website gives us a tour of Peter’s apartment we see the usual I’m a designer look at my designerery apartment touches – the jigsaw table and the ironic 80′s tv show artwork. We also see a Frankenhipster nightmare of shopping cart mutilation and abuse. We hope Pete the designer guy learns to pair his aesthetic with decency towards the noble shopping cart.

]]> http://www.shoppingcartabuse.com/2009/04/12/double-trouble/feed/ 0 grocery arches http://www.shoppingcartabuse.com/2009/04/10/grocery-arches/ http://www.shoppingcartabuse.com/2009/04/10/grocery-arches/#comments Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:17:20 +0000 luke http://www.shoppingcartabuse.com/?p=283 cart-archBorrowed shopping carts form a spectacular arch in Burlington, Vermont. Is it abuse? Perhaps it should be viewed as a salute. Or even more – a portal. Imagine crossing through to a world of the future where shopping carts roam free, mouthwash is optional and breakfast always has a marshmallow component. Come on through to heaven.

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