• @[email protected]
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    82 months ago

    This is a full book and not just the cover for fun and giggles!

    In The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America author Julian Montague has created an elaborate classification system of abandoned shopping carts, accompanied by photographic documentation of actual stray cart sightings. These sightings include bucolically littered locations such as the Niagara River Gorge (where many a cart has been pushed to its untimely death) and mundane settings that look suspiciously like a suburb near you.

    Working in the naturalist’s tradition, the photographs depict the diversity of the phenomenon and carry a surprising emotional charge; readers inevitably begin to see these carts as human, at times poignant in their abandoned, decrepit state, hilariously incapacitated, or ingeniously co-opted. The result is at once rigorous and absurd, enabling the layperson to identify and classify their own cart spottings based on the situation in which they were found.

    • Jesus
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      32 months ago

      Looks like it’s legit. Amazon has paperbacks.

  • @uservoid1
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    62 months ago

    Its front wheel is probably broken, approach with caution and beware of the screeching sound

  • Random_Character_A
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    2 months ago

    There was a time when niche interests were served, even if they weren’t in TikTok.

  • @[email protected]
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    22 months ago

    Reminds me of a documentary I saw (can’t remember the name) about some homeless guys in Canada that use shopping carts as high speed vehicles.