City Has Big Problem With Shopping Carts
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From Times Wire Reports
San Francisco is spending $650,000 a year to deal with shopping carts left in public places, mostly by the homeless.
The city collects, cleans and stores the carts. It also keeps most of the confiscated possessions for months to protect itself from lawsuits, as many homeless people have challenged the city in recent years about missing belongings.
Belongings are kept for at least 90 days, but only 1% of them are ever claimed.
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