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aybe it's the culture in Los Angeles, but every time I go to a different grocery store, there are so many options for children in the grocery cart, I wonder what's next: A teenager cart equipped with an Xbox? I've seen infant seats, booster seats, plastic cars that fit two toddlers or big kids attached to the front of the cart, and carts that have a traditional seat that fits two kids instead of one. But even with all of these options, we can never be too safe when it comes to putting our children on top of a shopping...

A Manhattan charity worker who was nearly killed by a shopping cart pushed over a garage railing by teenage punks in October spoke publicly for the first time today -- expressing compassion for the pranksters who dropped the cart on her head. Marion Hedges, during a walk outside her Upper East Side apartment, said she hasn’t received an apology from the evil-doers. “I haven’t heard from them, but I wish them well,” Hedges said. “I do, because I feel very sorry for them.” “I don’t know that my son would do something like that or that his friends would do...

A tidy-up in Raleigh could spell sore legs for bus riders -- at least for now. The city wants to rid streets of shopping carts that get pushed away from markets and become makeshift benches for Raleigh's bus passengers. On many corners, an overturned cart is a rider's only comfort. Of about 1,700 stops, more than 1,300 lack benches. "You can't blame them for wanting to sit down somewhere," Assistant City Manager Julian Prosser said. Taking a cart off-premises already violates state law, along with city ordinances, said Philip Isley, chairman of the City Council's Law and Public Safety Committee....

The general guideline of the competition is to design a cart that can provide shelter and storage emphasizing that it will still be affordable for production. Therefore, the team decided to concentrate its efforts in improving today’s shopping cart rather than coming up with a totally new form. We believe that this approach will keep the cost to a minimum. This way, we are aiming at a cart model that could be produced in the same facilities and with the same methods as with the common shopping cart. We have concentrated on improving the hygiene of the homeless by...

MIAMI - Miami police say they arrested a member of a violent street gang as he pushed a shopping cart carrying two .22-caliber rifles and a shotgun.Police arrested Edwin Reyes, 23, a citizen of Honduras, in downtown Miami Tuesday. They said he is a member of MS-13 (Mara Salvatrucha 13).Reyes' arrest is part of a new Immigration and Customs Enforcement anti-gang initiative called "Operation Community Shield." Since Operation Community Shield was launched late last month, ICE agents working with their federal, state and local counterparts have arrested more than 103 MS-13 gang members, including 24 in Miami.Reyes will be prosecuted...

Lex and Terry Show to Give Pimped Shopping Cart to Homeless PersonFiled under Ads/Promotions The Lex & Terry Show, a nationally syndicated morning radio program, known for contests like “Drunk Bitch Friday,” “Who’s more Pathetic” and “Your Ass Is Mine” (in which blindfolded contestants search for their spouses among a bunch of nude people — by groping), will be giving away a modified shopping cart to a homeless person. The cart was tricked-out with $3000 worth of electronic equipment — including an LCD TV, AM/FM stereo-cassette, GPS, refrigerator, and lighting — as well as solar panels, a pull-out seat, a...

A Suffolk man has created the world's fastest shopping trolley - by fitting a jet engine. Andy Tyler, 35, adapted the trolley which he fished out of a river, reports the Daily Mirror. The father-of-two can travel at more than 50mph in the machine but it's so noisy that it hurts his ears. The engine is powered by gas and liquid fuel and explodes 40 times a second to propel the trolley. Andy built his own engine from a discarded stainless steel restaurant worktop. He attached the gas supply, liquid fuel and engine and added sturdier wheels, an accelerator, brake...