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lol.
und die männer wollen im stillen nur raus in den garten und grillen..thühüringen
great1
I don’t know if that’s ingenious or just pathetic. Hilarious nonetheless.
Looks like the bicycle crashed and burned!
They actually did something like this in the movie “surviving the game” with Ice T, and that came out in 94.
No kind of coating on those things to make them so shiny I hope…
I do not know if this grocery cart is made the same way as refrigerator grilled shelves are, but they may be cadmium coated to produce a rust resistant shiny finish. Cadmium is a heavy metal that can be absorbed into the food and have the same effect on the nervous system as lead. A very dangerous practice!!
$40 for meat but not $2 for a food-safe grill pan….
If you are homeless, this is a win win since you probably already have the cart.
Those possum steaks look tasty. The color indicates a Dr. Pepper marinade — am I right? I would have re-purposed the casters for a rotisserie, and bent the handle so the drink holder is vertical. But otherwise, great build.
Superb idea ‘rent’ the trolley for the barbie;then when you’re finished take it back to the trolley park, reclaim your money and leave someone else to do the washing-up. The other advantage is that it doesn’t matter which way the wheels point when the trolley’s on its side!!
Mmmm! Still has that double-coupony flavor!
Is that squirrel meat?
OBOY includes a handy top rack bun warmer!
Postapocalyptastic!
This is just too awesome. I hope they returned the cart to the supermarket. I would have loved to see the puzzled face of the guy stacking them and seeing that odd discoloration on a side.
EWW! The GERRRRRRMS!
you can afford steak but not a proper grill?
This is what they mean by “dining ala carte”,
Call me George Foreman cuz I’m selling everybody grillz.
@D
Don’t worry, it is just chrome plated. Low dosage chromium poisoning does not produce immediate effects. No need to worry about liver damage ruining the afternoon, it takes a lot longer for visible effects.
@Mrs. Oh “Is that squirrel meat?”
It sure smells like it.
@Stormy: Please remember that fire is hot.
There is something about this one that makes me incredibly happy. I think it’s how at first, my response was “how totally ridiculous,” and it wasn’t until I spend a few seconds doing the math on it in my head that I realized it’s actually quite a good solution, given the materials at hand.
Also a great argument for doing away with plastic shopping carts once and for all.
I wonder about the person who took this picture. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I doubt they have hobo friendly fire-pits in public parks. L<ooks to me like these are someone’s private grounds, and they decided to do the hobo grill as a joke.
If that’s the case, I wish testicular cancer on them.
@dono1
LOL- love bad puns
Talk about “market fresh” meat, lol. Next camping trip, remember to grab the cart, both for transport and grilling. “I’d like that ala cart please”
@Czernobog
Not only that but at least around here, hobos won’t let you that close to their food for a picture (or cook steak, for that matter). Which would mean that the owner of the camera is also the cook. So yeah, this might be a stunt, not a survivor’s tale of cleverness.
Now if you wanted to give them the benefit of doubt, maybe they showed up for a grill only to find out that the grate was missing and decided to make do with what was at hand. (Although the cart looks way too new to be an abandoned cart at a park)
XD
Once again it comes down to thermodynamics. I guess we need that as a tag.
They can use the top rack to warm the rolls.
Hey guys! Anyone know what this prank cost? Since I’m in the business, I’ll tell you. It’s pretty funny!
Try $200 for the shopping cart. Exactly what did you think a cart cost?
The maker of this photo could have bought a nice grill at Lowe’s, a really nice grill, for that.
Instead, they cost some store owner $200. Which just made your steak more expensive for the next grill prank. Not to mention all the copycats who will follow.
Oh, and the cart won’t be cleaned. It’ll be trashed. Even if the frame doesn’t warp from the heat, because the metal is thin, it’s no longer suitable for carrying food. It is contaminated beyond redemption, the surface coatings are destroyed.
Unless.. you want to put your clean groceries in a cart with burned-on meat and fat.. Didn’t think you did. So, +1 for the landfill.
HAHAHAHA!! Really funny now, isn’t it? Sheesh.
We’re a manufacturer for shopping carts,there’ll powder coated on top of chrome plating.The steak will bad to health.
don’t do copycat,that’s a unluck cat.
Kevin
@Everybody:
Sorry for the sour reaction, but I just paid for a trailer-load of carts. That’s 150 of them. We lose 20-30 a month for nonsense like this. It’s a line item in our budget, and a source of frustration for every store.
@Charlene
hey now! they paid 25 cents for the use of that cart
lol… after looking at all these pictures they look like they come from where I live. Hicktown USA (a.k.a. Western Maryland)
I’m sure it work fine if they burned it empty for a while to burn off all the poisonous gunk and germs. They could use the flyers to start it.
yeah, i was going to say that. there were quite a few cadmium poisoning cases back in the 60s from people using junked fridge shelves on homemade barbecues, just like you said. ended when they started putting glass shelves in fridges, and when people stopped building monster barbecues because you can now buy monster ones. cadmium is a great metal for plating for industrial purposes, providing galvanic protection and a durable, nonbrittle, nonsticky finish; not as good as chrome for super shininess or for scrach resistance, but in a shopping cart it would be fine. unfortunately, toxic. so i don’t trust anything plated as being suitable for food unless it says so. (just putting food on top of a cadmium plated shelf or something won’t tox it up, but using a cadmium plated grill in a barbecue is something different)
@The Cat
You’re right Mr Cat. I was mistaken when I thought that chromium itself was toxic. I was thinking of toxic pigments like “chrome yellow”, which are toxic because they also contain lead.
As long as a chrome plated surface is clean, it will not contaminate food.
And the award for the most creative use of a stolen grocery cart goes to…
This just needs one minor adjustment. The cart should be placed right side up on the pit. Then, when the steaks are done, just pop the cart off the pit and wheel it over to the table. You’ll serve steaks fresh off the grill. It just doesn’t get much more convenient than that.
My sister said,” ~~~it even can be used 3 times!!!” 3 sides~~~~
This is pretty common in Australia, the Abos knock a dead tree down, set it on fire and roll the trolly of meat straight into it. A far more elegant solution to this age old problem.
It tastes like chicken
Is it healthy? Dont think so, there is much Chrome on it. Must taste like Iron. Oh new name: Ironsteak
nice fix… but only a Cyborg or Transformer or Terminator or Robocop will be able to eat the meat without having renegade health problems. There should be a quality tag on the meat : 100% Chromium ; 0% Brains
Is it healthy? Of course it is! My car’s not died of anything yet, and you should see how much chrome its got.
I hope they used the germ wipes from the store!
As a former store employee I know that those carts cost at least $200 each. That missing cart replacement cost is added to the price of the food for which we all pay.
@hunterje
I know that fire is hot Sarcastic One. But I don’t care how hot it is, just the thought of using a germ-infested shopping cart disgusts me enough.
Forget double-bagging. With the chromium, cadmium, and germs, this is more like double-gagging.
looks like something my daddy would have done
But the cadmium will kill the germs, in any case a wire basket is rather an inhospitable environment. Leave it on the fire for a few minutes to soot up/burn off the cadmium/chromium and you’re sorted. This is quite a good idea actually.
Looks like something from the trailer park boys show!
They put it this way because it’s lean meat.
Redneck style!
You know, I have to agree with Ghero. People that abuse shopping carts piss me off. They’re not ‘free’, and people that do this kind of crap make groceries more expensive for us.
@the “Save The Carts” gang
Let’s be realistic. Do the stores provide shopping carts for the shopper’s convenience? Or is it out of selfishness so the shopper can “cart off” more stuff than they’d be able to handle otherwise per trip? If carts are so darned precious, why do we find them strewn all over the parking lot? And row upon row in the front of the store? Next time you go to the grocery, count the number of carts that are available to use. Talk about wishful thinking- if they ever packed that many people in their store they’d be dancing in the aisles. Perhaps conveying the appearance that the store can’t seem to manage their abundance of carts is what leads people to help themselves to them. I don’t condone stealing carts but rather than bitch about it, come up with a better system and you’d make some money off the idea. At $200 apiece plus the money that’s spent daily sending clerks out into the parking lot to collect them all day and night you’d think some grocery store would have been smart enough to do what they do at the airports with luggage carts. You pay a price to rent a luggage cart and return it to a locking rack- problem solved. Carrying your own luggage (or only one or two bags of groceries)? You don’t need to bother with a cart.
Whew! I feel much better now. Think I’ll go throw another chromium steak on the barbie…
Dono1 what the hell are you on about? You do realize sometimes people buy things in bulk? Or buy heavy items? Or what about when you’re shopping for holidays and you idk actually are getting a truckload of food? I don’t know about you and I don’t know what world you live in but my mother had it down to where we only had to shop once a month basically because guess what, my dad would fill up grocery carts full of food and other items we would need throughout the month!
I have no clue what store you go to but I’ve only seen shopping carts left nilly willy everywhere and it’s NOT by the workers at the stores, it’s the people that use them! So how about you get off your highchair and stop blaming something people have for convience of others?
The carts do NOT make you buy more than you need!
Dono1….. where are you from? where i live, there have been occasions (like 3 out of every 10 times) that i need to go to a different supermarket than planned because the place is so full there are no more carts left… and i’m not talking the weekend or the holiday seasons. i go to the store weekdays around noon. and as for the size of the shopping cart making me buy more than i need, well you need t sit back & really think about that. if carts were made smaller, it would be impossible for me to properly shop for my family of 4. i would be in the store 3 times a week!!
@dono1
do they hire recovery teams to go collect carts? cause i see these babies all over the place around my neighborhood. and i know they cost plenty. in fact, i got a wry smile out of seeing that a major ivy league college around here, let’s call it “Jail Juniversity”, transports the food from their kitchens to their dining rooms using carts emblazoned with the name of a local supermarket. i assume they didn’t buy them second hand and forget to paint over the name.
I foresee warning labels on future carts. “Grilling on shoppint carts may be hazardous to your health”.
@gzuckier
If they paid me a bounty, I’d round ‘em up in MY neighborhood. If a new cart costs $200, a pre-owned one ought to be worth what? $75? $100?
I only wish the people that took these things from the store would bring them all the way to their house, leave them on THEIR lawns and then bring them back to the store for their next shopping trip.
@dono1
I am sorry to report that I have gone to my local supermarket and found no available shopping carts anywhere (and they do have rows of them). It’s not always wishful thinking and they are not dancing in the aisles. There is no room for any dancing.
@Daniel
Sounds like your market’s not that super.
Count me in on the “Save the carts gang”. It is funny about how people complain about prices going up, and out of outrage, do stuff like this that costs the store money. Who do you think is going to pay for it?? YOU! (aka The shopper). Every time you cost a store money, YOU are causing the prices to go up. So go ahead and leave that food out where it will spoil because you are too lazy to put it back in the freezer you took it from. Accidentally drop that candle and do a Steve Irkle impressions of “Oops, did I do that” and laugh it off… because YOU are causing the increase of the prices you keep complaining about. /endrant
…its a cart, as a grill… frickin ingenious and highly amusing… you cart huggers need to pull the carts you have out of your ass long enough to see that is is “funny.” Nothing more…
@dono1
EVERY supermarket in taiwan does that lol
There are stores such as Aldi’s where you are charged for a cart and if you want your money back (50 cents I think) you need to return them to a locking stack of carts. The process is automated so it’s not like people are waiting on you to take your 50 cents or give it back…
I can just see Dono1 running around in a cape, repossessing shopping carts from bums and tramps…hilarious image!
I hope someone put that in the sink and washed it first.
It’s an interesting use of a shopping cart… but yuck!
As for people stealing carts and leaving them all over the place, they remedied that here by enacting a city by-law making it illegal to remove a shopping cart from a stores property.
If you are caught with a store shopping cart outside a stores property, cops or ordinance enforcement people will give you a $150 ticket. Also any cart picked up on a street by public works will cost the store a $50 pickup/storage fee.
Some stores in D.C. are right downtown, and don’t have big parking lots, just a loading area in front of the store. And the carts have RFID chips on them, so that if you try to push the cart beyond the store property, the chip will signal a device to lock up one of the wheels.
sad to say, it looks like an idea I’d have if hanging out with friends and wanting to grill up some meat at a park or something… I probably wouldn’t even actually voice the idea, but it’d still come to mind…
I remember there being quite a few stores in the Detroit area with the carts that lock up a wheel upon leaving the lot, along with a LOT of carts with one flat wheel, lol.
Devolution
Please don’t try this–heated chrome will penetrate your meat and can be fatal—-
many years ago as a teenager working for a local store of a large chain, myself and several friends thought it would be really funny to take a pair of bolt cutters to the frame, basically giving it a haircut, then returning the cart to the corral for some unsuspecting store employee to find it. yeah its destructive and immature, but it was funny at the time.
if the stores had these modern day electronic wheel boots on the carts back when i was a teenager, id have had a chop shop going for taking those off the carts for their electronics and parts. those electronic boots are a joke anyway, i see peeps in the hood pushing the carts down the sidewalk anyway on 3 wheels and a scraping cover on the 4th.
That happens all the time here in Australia. The other thing we do for a prank is to strip someone naked, put them in a shopping trolley and lock it into another stack of trolleys – they can’t get out until someone puts a coin into the slot. Best done overnight so the victim spends all night in the cold.
@Stevo the Devo
Wow, that is sadistic, yet funny somehow!
Just think about the dirty clothes that were taken out of this cart… yet it is steak…. the guy just robbed a 7-11 to afford the steak?
This can’t be good. “Here man, have a steak…put some hair on your chest. Or make you sterile, one of the two.”
We actually did something similar to this while camping once, it actually works really well… providing there’s no crud on the shopping trolley, it gives the meat a nice flame grilled criss-cross pattern if you cook it right.
This man (or woman) is a genious, except as one of the commenters above has stated, the shopping trolley needs to be completely upside down for maximum effectiveness.
@dono1
Aldis markets require you to pay a quarter to use the shopping cart, which you do get back when it is returned. This way they don’t have to hire cart-pushers. Less overhead = cheaper goods.
I see this is the deluxe model, it has the upper warmer deck
ok ok ok…. That looks specifically like an ALDI shopping basket. Notice the little chain that holds it to the other carts, which is part of the thing that you put in a quarter “deposit” until you return the cart to the rack of carts all locked together. LOL.
@dono1
they actually use this system in most european stores. however, it seems like a relatively sweet deal for someone looking to steal a cart: why buy one for market price when you can get one for 50 cents?
Hell, Hell, and did I say Hell Naw!
why not? i paid a quarter for it i should be able to take it home and use it for a grill
Sept i putt a bunch of wood in the basket and lit it with the back gate propped up so its a meal on wheels 
Shopping carts are food-safe, right?
And to think, it only cost them a quarter!
Nice…..good ideia
i loved
What a waste! and probably harmful to the environment and the user!!!
Redneck!!!!
I don’t think I’d want to know what kind of meat that is.
For when you want your barbeque on the go!
Best 25 cents I ever spent. And don’t forget, the top rack is makes a great bun warmer.
A1 as usual, dono.
Seen this sort of thing before, though sillier. Someone grilled a pizza on a shopping cart where I work. Didn’t turn out too well though.
Looks like its not just scouts taught to be thrifty… And thievy
Trailer park grillin at it’s best!
Amuzege! – Hilarious!
Major food mart chains now give an option to staple your fresh meat to the side of your cart in order to save paper
que asado mas pedorro culiauuu!!!
redneck extra-large, double-decker grill
LOL!!
jejemons!!!