AIBU to think stealing a trolley to wheel your child home is not on?

[SodaStreamy]

Just passed a couple, dad pushing baby in buggy, mum pushing toddler in a Sainsbury's trolley.

One bag of shopping that the dad is holding in his hand so it's not like the trolley is full of shopping and borrowing the trolley was the only way to get it home.

I think it's bugging me as they are relatively far away from shop and I doubt they'll return it. There is a spate of abandoned trollies by me (only sainsbury's ones, no £1 for trolley) and they are really bugging me but I maybe irrationally so?

Would you steal a trolley to transport your child home?

[Sparklingbrook]

No-that's awful. The trolleys at some supermarkets stop if you wheel them over a certain point. Waitrose and Asda round here-the wheels stop.

[SodaStreamy]

Yes Sparkling , and there is a wheel stop so they must have lifted it over or mechanism didn't work?

[Sparklingbrook]

That's even worse.

[HeySoulSister]

aahh bet the precious child didn't want to get out....so indulgent parents took it. pathetic!!

[Restorer]

Do the wheel stop things work? I've always thought it's just a sign to put people off, based on the fact that when I parked in the next door car park and then decided to walk to Tesco, I was able to wheel my trolley back to the car (and back again) perfectly easily.

[SodaStreamy]

i think they do on the pavement bit. I frequently used to nearly go head first into the trolley when it jammed to a halt, although saying that it didn't work one time and we were nearly crossing the main road before realising we still had the trolley

Maybe there is a logic that carparks are ok coz no-one's going to shove a trolley in their boot?

[HollyBerryBush]

how do you know they won't take it back next trip to the supermarket?

[ParadiseChick]

Maybe they take it back and forwards each trip?

The flats I lived in as a student had a couple of communal trollies from the Tesco 5 minutes up the road.

[LazyMonkeyButler]

No, I wouldn't do that either but maybe there was something you couldn't see - for example, maybe the child had hurt him/herself and was unable to walk.

Personally, I'd have got the bus or a taxi before pinching a trolley though.

[SodaStreamy]

well HollyBerryBush, I suppose, and I was tempted to follow them, and see what they did with it because I'm getting hacked off with the amount of abandoned trollies

ParadiseChick , they had one bag of shopping so were not using the trolley for food and stuff just their toddler.......a second buggy would surely make more sense than keeping a shopping trolley to wheel your child back and forward to the supermarket?

[DeWe]

I have a couple of times asked our local Sainsbury's if I can take a trolley home and return it later, for various reasons. They have never had a problem with it, and I've usually managed to return it within a couple of hours, always on the day.

[UnChartered]

Is this the best or worst place to admit I once helped a friend get a supermarket trolley into a black cab we were pissed as she needed one to help her take deliveries into her business premises from the car park?

Thought so

[SodaStreamy]

DeWe i've done it too from B&Q once, not engaging brain and thinking two of us could carry home 7 tins of paint , and 10 rolls of wallpaper.

But would they really need to take the kid in a trolley?

[loopylou6]

Sorry, I just can't get myself worked up about this.

[EduCated]

When I lived in my student house, there was an almighty crash outside my ground floor bedroom window. Went outside and someone had somehow managed to crash a trolley over our 3ft wall into our front yard.

BUT THEN I went out a couple of hours later and it had gone again

[TheChaoGoesMu]

How do you know she wont take it back? I used to wheel my shopping home in a trolley, and then take it back afterwards.

[VivaLeBeaver]

IME wheel stops don't work.

Disclaimer - I have never stolen a trolley.

[SoleSource]

There might have been a very good reason.

[D0oinMeCleanin]

We've taken trollies before, usually around x-mas time when we've been utterly unorganised and did our big shop only to find it will be three hours before we can get a taxi. Taking the trolley is often the only option if you can't drive/can't find/afford a taxi. DH We always return it at midnight the next day under the cover of darkness

[complexnumber]

How much does each trolley cost?

[AgnesBligg]

It makes me want to actually scream when I see people doing this. Somebody make them stop!

[AgnesBligg]

£45 complex

beggar's belief.

[andubelievedthat]

Rebels ,adult rebels training a little rebel ,in full view of the public , what is it all about /world coming too ? Sainsburys too !

[SirChenjin]

I'm willing to bet that a)the child hadn't hurt himself and was perfectly able to walk and b)the trolley will not be returned but will instead be left on the street for someone else to sort out.

I bloody hate seeing this - drives me mad. Pay for a taxi/buy a shopper/carry it home like we used to do.

[Sommink]

Loads of people where I used to live did this, there was a morrisons across the road, 2 minute walk but to drive round was about 10 (or people didnt have cars) so people walked out with trolleys a lot kept them to use next time but morrisons were really good, if you either rang or went in they sent people out round the area looking for trolleys that had been abandoned.