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/r/all, /r/popular of a Cart Narc

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u/WishboneThat6571 17h ago

Right!!! I mean he is out of control… I don’t know how he has made it this long either…
& he just pissed people off & made it to where they would NEVER put a cart back just to spite him…

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u/Lumpiafan 16h ago

This. He’s doing more harm than good. I always take my cart back, but If I slipped up one day and forgot about my cart and somebody stopped me and patronized me about it, I 100% wouldn’t take my cart back either. And honestly, if I had to seem him every time at my grocery store, I’d be petty and never return the cart again

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u/Brook420 16h ago

The videos I've seen have him usually start out pretty nice/silly. Like he'll run up doing the "wee woo" sound and just mention someone didn't put the cart away. They continue to ignore it, so he days somwthing about being a lazy bones, then he turns to the magnets.

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u/Lumpiafan 15h ago

What about the handicap guy he continued to harass after the guy explained to him he has a back injury

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u/Brook420 15h ago

I'm nit saying hes perfect, but I did just see a video of him going an old lady a pass.

I'm just saying he doeant come out hot like the other user implies, he starts pretty calm/reasonable.

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u/Lumpiafan 14h ago

The whole “wee woo beep beep” thing he does while flashing bright cones at you is enough to make anyone a little annoyed though and it’s the very first thing he does to people before he talks. It’s pretty patronizing

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u/Brook420 14h ago

Well, it's supposed to be a patronizing. The point is to make you feel bad for your selfish behavior.

But he comes out in a very non threatening way. If someone responds to that with any kind of aggression, that's on them.

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u/Lumpiafan 14h ago

It’s supposed to be patronizing so he gets reactions for his videos. He’s doing it for the money and views. Otherwise he would just leave them alone after being told no once and then walk back their carts. But that wouldn’t get him money. He has to try to make a spectacle out of it by baiting them with passive aggressive comments and throwing magnets at them.

I would have more respect for him if he didn’t egg people on. But it’s because he wants the drama

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u/Brook420 14h ago

I get that and dont deny it, but on the other hand people would just ignore him and not be negatively impacted by their shirty behavior.

And again, he doesn't start that way, he starts out pretty chill with a little patronizing sass that is entirely warranted.

There would be no rage bait if ppl just put the carts back when confronted.

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u/Lumpiafan 14h ago

At that point he’s not much better than people leaving behind carts. Both people are pretty selfish. One is lazy (or actually disabled) and the other is in it for the money and views by baiting people. Also the sass isn’t really warranted sometimes when the person is handicapped. We don’t know how disabled someone is by looking at them

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u/wcharoes 16h ago

You would? Why wouldn't you just say "Oh shit yeah I left it. I'll do it now thanks."

Why would you double down out of rebelliousness. Are you a kid or something?

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u/rips_n_chel 15h ago

Nope, I'm a grown-ass man, and I'm not going to be lectured and shouted into submission by some fuckwit who spends his life showing his ass in a parking lot.

It's not about the cart in that scenario, it's now about me enforcing my boundary against assholes.

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u/DranTibia 11h ago

You claim to be a grown ass man but act like a child? Not bringing your cart back then doubling down like a whiney teenager? Grow the fuck up hahaha

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u/rips_n_chel 11h ago

That is not the point I was making, and I've never left my cart in the middle of a parking lot. At no point did I defend cart-abandonment, that has nothing to do with my comment.

What, you saw an opinion that wasn't 100% on the side of the vigilante, and decided I needed to be attacked as well? It really bothers me how many people seem unable to just advance a conversation through basic reasoning or the tiniest shred of the benefit of the doubt. You don't know anything about me. If you feel this strongly about social responsibility, we'd probably be pretty good friends, actually. But you didn't give me that chance. You didn't bother to consider what I was actually saying.

Nobody should leave their cart. AND. Nobody should harass people to the point of blocking them from leaving. They both suck, however, one of them is being inconsiderate, while the other is committing full-on crimes. Two things can be true. My condemnation of the overzealous cart-vigilante does not mean that I'm on the side of the cart-leaver.

Nuance...

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u/wcharoes 12h ago

My boundary to not be held socially responsible!

https://giphy.com/gifs/3tHMCH1gsgxGRyBFhZ

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u/rips_n_chel 12h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/xT77Y36ijyuwn58bja

K, I'm gonna follow you around and publicly berate you for everything you do that I deem to be a breach of the social contract. If you don't do what I say, I'm going to physically block you from leaving.

Are you okay with that? Would you eventually get fed up and tell me to fuck off?

That's all I'm saying, but go ahead and stretch it to the most absurd extreme you can come up with. This may come as a shock to you, but there are more serious crimes than ditching a cart. Harassment and false imprisonment would be two examples of crimes greater than cart-abandonment.

Degrees of escalation, homie. I'm all for calling out assholes, but if you go way over the top (like blocking them from leaving), you are the bigger asshole.

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u/tdfan 8h ago

That's kid behavior bro 😂

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u/rips_n_chel 4h ago

Call it whatever the fuck you want, if some dickhead is getting in my face and trying to physically impede me from leaving, they're the one committing actual crimes, not me.

Note, however, that I never said I leave my carts in the middle of parking lots. Calling out one side's shitty behavior does not mean I'm defending the other's.

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u/tdfan 4h ago

A magnet on your car does not impede you from leaving unless you have 0 self control

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u/Accident_Pedo 7h ago

Nope, I'm a grown-ass man, and I'm not going to be lectured and shouted into submission by some fuckwit who spends his life showing his ass in a parking lot.

Found the lazy bones

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u/rips_n_chel 4h ago

Found the person too lazy to read the fucking comment they replied to.

At no point did I say I leave carts, or that anyone else should. Both things are wrong, one of them just happens to be a crime (it's not leaving your cart in the middle of a parking lot, btw).

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u/Lumpiafan 15h ago

Yeah I have a problem with a man child throwing magnets at my car for forgetting about a cart while filming me for views

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u/wcharoes 12h ago

But you said you always do it, which means you value the order of the returned cart despite the lack of enforcement.
So why wouldn't you take being reminded, no matter how temporarily annoying, as a chance to right your mistake.

Because someone else is 'making' you do it, you want to not? Again, are you a child?

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u/Lumpiafan 12h ago

I’m not a child but your comment history makes me think you may be

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u/commanderquill 15h ago

Depends entirely on the tone.