This is a Public Service Announcement. Your determination to release shopping trolleys from their regimented, thankless, lives at the supermarket back into the wild is somewhat misguided.
The fact is shopping trolleys are not a domesticated, oppressed, wild species forced into captivity. Their ancestors were not once proud beasts roaming the Serengeti, carrying supplies for wildebeests during the great migration.
Shopping trolleys are single serving domesticated animals that have always been bred in captivity. They are not equipped with any innate survival skills and just don't cope once released into the wild.
Too often you'll find their mangled, broken remains being overgrown with plant life, many suffering the worse fate of drowning in a local river.
Some are fortunate enough to be rescued through outreach programmes and returned to active service.
The reality is, the community, and the trolleys themselves, are better served if you simply return your trolley to a trolley c…
The fact is shopping trolleys are not a domesticated, oppressed, wild species forced into captivity. Their ancestors were not once proud beasts roaming the Serengeti, carrying supplies for wildebeests during the great migration.
Shopping trolleys are single serving domesticated animals that have always been bred in captivity. They are not equipped with any innate survival skills and just don't cope once released into the wild.
Too often you'll find their mangled, broken remains being overgrown with plant life, many suffering the worse fate of drowning in a local river.
Some are fortunate enough to be rescued through outreach programmes and returned to active service.
The reality is, the community, and the trolleys themselves, are better served if you simply return your trolley to a trolley c…
