Shopping Cart Series: Locked Out


by on Aug 19th, 2010

Shopping cart in search of a locksmith to let him back into his home. (Photo courtesy of Stefanee Rivera))

A reader, Stefanee Rivera, sent us this photograph of a lost shopping cart and gave us the background story.

This poor little guy was found early Saturday morning seeking assistance from the locksmith inside. Apparently he got locked out of his house (Walbaum’s) and couldn’t find a neighbor to help. He wandered over to the locksmith on Ave. X and Ocean Ave.  for some help getting back inside. The nice locksmith who works there called his parents and told them he was waiting for them at the shop. They said they would be “right over”  to pick him up. However, according to the locksmith, at 3:45PM, the lonely little shopping cart was still there waiting for his mom and dad. I suggested he call the Administration for Shopping Cart Services (ASCS) if they hadn’t come to pick him up by closing time.

Hearing the news that the shopping complex where the Waldbaum’s store is located has been sold for $10 million, may have made him a little nervous about his family’s future.

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  • Anonymous

    (ACSC)!!!!! Too much.
    True story.. I called Staples about a cart once. They said they could not afford to send someone to fetch it. I said it would be in the center of an intersection waiting for them.
    Do they not cost a few hundred bucks each? Even as scrap metal goes they have a value.
    (sorry, I don’t mean to talk about your carts like they have no feeling).

  • Georgia

    On the road again this is so unfair to the cart that it got locked out of his home and no one can help. This locksmith helps any one who needs it as far as these things go. He is there many years on Ave X. The ASCS is not really friendly about there carts either. Lets see what happens today. the manager at Waldbaums should have sent a worker to pick up that cart. But like anything else they don’t care.

  • Barry

    Latest I heard was that a foster family (Stop ‘N’ Shop) has agreed to take the lad in until his mommy and daddy get through he ASCS red tape. Apparently daddy has a problem with a shaky wheel that ASCS is carefully looking into.

  • Anon

    Actually, that locksmith isn’t nice at all. He’s actually a bit of a prick. Would not be surprised if this whole post was put up by him to advertise his shop.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=36503488 Stefanee Rivera

    Actually, my friend works there and he is not a prick, nor is the owner. I put the story up because he told me the cart was sitting there all day even though Walbaums said they would come get it.. I did not put that up to advertise the store. They don’t really need advertisement on Sheepshead Bites through a silly little shopping cart story. Lighten up.

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisanne001 Lisanne!

    We don’t like to hear about the terrible fate that often befall kidnapped shopping carts. But it is necessary. Shopping carts need the same protection against being crime victims that we do.

    Consider your post a public service.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=36503488 Stefanee Rivera

    Ya know, I fear for the safety and future of the little cart. Shaky wheels can be genetic!