Shopping Cart Series: Even a Wheel Lock Can’t Stop This One


by on May 27th, 2009

This Super Stop & Shop shopping cart was seen two blocks away from its home on Avenue Z and East 17 Street.

The cart has a wheel lock that keeps it from moving freely, so whoever abandoned it here must have had a difficult time getting it this far.

With the proliferation of supermarkets, stray shopping carts all over Sheepshead Bay will have some company while hanging out on the streets.

Correction: The shopping cart was seen on Avenue Y and East 19 Street, not on Avenue Z.

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  • Steffi

    Hmm…did they carry it? Monday evening I saw a woman trying very desperately to push her cart out of the parking lot to her car. She failed.

  • g money

    wow, great piece of news,…i wonder if this will be on CNN…. btw ave Z and East 17 is just one block away not two.

  • Jim

    Tell Gloomberg about it. Maybe he will try to tax the things out of existence like he is doing to everything else.

  • bob

    I dont understand the “news” that this website posts. A jacket is in a trash can?? A shopping cart is a block or two from where it is supposed to be??? oh my!!!!

    How about telling us about the gunshots and screaming I heard coming from the projects on monday night (not the shooting that was on the news across from SBHS) and the dozens of cop cars that went speeding down Nostrand Avenue to check it out.

    Oh BTW, i saw a stuffed animal in the trash on Neck Road and East 26th street…you might want to go check it out and tell everyone about it!

  • Anonymous

    g-money and bob: Sheepshead Bites is a mixed news and “lived experience” blog. That means you get the news – which we do the best to report as volunteers contributing out of our passion for the community. It also means you get posts that are our musings about life in Sheepshead Bay.

    Ray thinks the proliferation of shopping carts wandering the Bay is both a quality of life issue AND slightly amusing. So she occasionally writes about this and other things like it (jackets in garbage cans) as a light post for our morning readers. And judging from the reaction of our readers, many think it’s cute/interesting/worrying and use it to spark a discussion.

    As for the news we cover: we’ve broken a lot of stories missed by other media. We do this in our spare time, and we’re not paid, and I think we still do a hell of a job. As for the shooting on Monday, there was nothing reported other than the one across from SBHS. If you see something, you can write a report yourself and send it in — or at the very least shoot us an email and let us know there’s an incident.

    Or, hey, you can sit there and do nothing and then complain about how other people’s attempts at doing something fall short of your expectations. But, please, keep that crap to yourself.

  • Anonymous

    Since the store is between East 17 and East 19 Streets, I did use the lower street number to calculate the number of blocks where it is was seen.

  • Steffi

    Hmm…did they carry it? Monday evening I saw a woman trying very desperately to push her cart out of the parking lot to her car. She failed.

  • g money

    wow, great piece of news,…i wonder if this will be on CNN…. btw ave Z and East 17 is just one block away not two.

  • Jim

    Tell Gloomberg about it. Maybe he will try to tax the things out of existence like he is doing to everything else.

  • bob

    I dont understand the “news” that this website posts. A jacket is in a trash can?? A shopping cart is a block or two from where it is supposed to be??? oh my!!!!

    How about telling us about the gunshots and screaming I heard coming from the projects on monday night (not the shooting that was on the news across from SBHS) and the dozens of cop cars that went speeding down Nostrand Avenue to check it out.

    Oh BTW, i saw a stuffed animal in the trash on Neck Road and East 26th street…you might want to go check it out and tell everyone about it!

  • Anonymous

    g-money and bob: Sheepshead Bites is a mixed news and “lived experience” blog. That means you get the news – which we do the best to report as volunteers contributing out of our passion for the community. It also means you get posts that are our musings about life in Sheepshead Bay.

    Ray thinks the proliferation of shopping carts wandering the Bay is both a quality of life issue AND slightly amusing. So she occasionally writes about this and other things like it (jackets in garbage cans) as a light post for our morning readers. And judging from the reaction of our readers, many think it’s cute/interesting/worrying and use it to spark a discussion.

    As for the news we cover: we’ve broken a lot of stories missed by other media. We do this in our spare time, and we’re not paid, and I think we still do a hell of a job. As for the shooting on Monday, there was nothing reported other than the one across from SBHS. If you see something, you can write a report yourself and send it in — or at the very least shoot us an email and let us know there’s an incident.

    Or, hey, you can sit there and do nothing and then complain about how other people’s attempts at doing something fall short of your expectations. But, please, keep that crap to yourself.

  • Anonymous

    Since the store is between East 17 and East 19 Streets, I did use the lower street number to calculate the number of blocks where it is was seen.