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Letter: Letters: Exploding trolleys

Published 21 November 1992

From S. AYCRIGG-TATE

I have experienced some strange, sometimes violent behaviour from supermarket
trolleys. In Sainsbury’s once, a trolley forcibly ejected my daughter from
the seat in the front by deliberately losing a wheel. I wouldn’t mind but
she was reined-in.

We even have a corner near the station in Brighton where drunk and derelict
trolleys hang out, although no-one I know has ever seen any arriving, so
I presume they move under cover of darkness.

Or maybe the act of them being observed changes their behaviour in some
subtle way . . .

S. Aycrigg-Tate Brighton, Sussex

Issue no. 1848 published 21 November 1992

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