Out of control Gen Zers and teens recklessly careening down the streets of South Boston in Stop and Shop carriages, outraged councilors say

The letter sounds totally reasonable and seems to cover all the bases.

"We have been following up with Captain Boyle from Boston Police C-6 and Principal Gant at the Tynan School to provide footage from security cameras to the police to pay more attention to the area, as well as the neighbor’s insurance carrier. We have also reached out to other City Departments to see what improvements can be done at the school and at the bottom of the ramp to deter this behavior."

It also addresses modifying the carts, which others brought up:

"Meanwhile, in the interest of public safety, personal property and quality of life issues, I would like to respectfully request that Stop & Shop work to address this matter by looking to maintain their shopping carts on-site, perhaps via technological upgrades and an electronic system, and prevent them from being taken off premise. This is an issue that requires multiple partners to work together."

It's a school and a Stop & Shop and a long straight hill all located in the same basic spot. It makes sense that this combination comes with more issues than most, and the letter seems like a perfectly reasonable response by representatives who are doing their jobs.

We'd be talking great-grandchild at this point.

Artie T or Artie S?

Artie S would probably sneak a cart rent into every credit card transaction, where Artie T would just hire two more teenagers to cheerfully collect carts from people in the parking lot.

Unless things have changed, the hometown store in the Acre in Lowell had the roving locks on the wheels years ago.

They look pretty robust to me. Maybe you're thinking of a specific model that's a little less solid?

I suspect that even if you can remove the lock, that it's enough of a barrier to discourage casual shenanigans. I mean, there's even a way to unlock them with your phone, but most people don't know it and wouldn't bother even if it would mean an easier trip with their groceries.

Yeesh, did I miss something?

I 100percent did this at age 13 because my grandpa challenged me to a race.

Flynn and Flaherty going off on the shopping cart menace reminds me of this completely surreal scene that me and my college buddies encountered heading to Crane Beach on a bizarrely warm spring break day.

We stopped at a sub shop in a u-shaped plaza at mid-morning and it was very quiet. We went in to buy lunches and they guys who got their sandwiches first broke out a frisbee in the empty parking lot. Suddenly, a flock of weeble-shaped old guys wobbled out from doors in three sides of the plaza, chests thrust out. They started robotically chanting a call and response of "we don't have any trouble in our town" and "nope we don't have any trouble in OUR town" at each other.

We were expecting a God-like Rod Serling voice over to emerge from a cloud at any moment.

Most of us here have experience with shopping carts and grocery stores, not with guns.

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