If you were thinking of loading a semi with tons of shopping carts, make sure you view the following video before you attempt it — just in case you’ve missed a small detail.
Shopping Cart Fail [Fail Blog via Buzzfeed]
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As soon as I read the title I knew what was going to happen.
@PsychicPsycho3:
Me too, but it sure was funny!
@PsychicPsycho3: Im pretty sure everyone knew what was going to happen…
@Treefingers: Except the driver.
I like how the Target dudes also kinda laugh in the video and just stand there watching as it all comes rolling out…
@neko613: That’s great, isn’t it? It’s like- you don’t pay me enough to run after that truck.
@neko613: What else could they do but laugh??
@mamalicious: “Don’t do it! Don’t be a hero Josh! “
@neko613: yeah, it’s almost like they’d rather not be on workers comp for having 600 shopping carts fall on them or something…lazy punks.
@neko613: remember, they get paid by the hour.
@neko613: I would’ve probably fallen out of the loading dock laughing so hard. But, you know, they get paid by the hour, so may as well make it fun while they can.
@neko613:
It looks like to me the guy in the grey pullover did most of the work judging by his reaction, which was a combination of shock and “holy shit”.
10-4, Back Door!
So that’s why the one wheel never works….
Still love Target:)
@hillsrovey: Yeah it always seems i get the sucky cart when i go grocery shopping…
@red3001: All the carts suck, so your odds are good. I’ve pulled out my Leatherman in the middle of a store to tighten a loose wheel on several occasions.
@formatc: You’re one of “Those Guys” aren’t ya…
@stopNgoBeau: But the tools are so comfortable!
Stop Sign: Check
Mailbox that isn’t mine either: Check
Re-welding a public clock: Check
Fire hydrant: Check
*after the commercial ends*
Buddy smacking you in the head with the monkey wrench so he can go the hell home already: Check
This certainly made my day a lot better. It made me crack up in the middle of my university’s library. Not cool.
@i_love_life: That’s okay. University libraries don’t shush.
I enjoyed the second wave. Just when all was settled… more carts!
Way to jump right on that situation, Target peeps!
Funny. But it’s fake – a set up for the camera.
@MrsLopsided: you don’t think Target has cameras on their loading docks? Of course they do.
@cmcd14: I agree, but there is a lot of info missing from this video. There is usually more info shown on screen such as the camera # and sometimes even the store number. Also, from what I have seen of most stores security cams, they record at a lower frame rate than normal as it saves a lot of storage space, and doesn’t affect the quality that much.
@MrsLopsided: Agreed. In all my years of working at supermarkets or near trailers, I can’t think of any drivers who would leave w/o checking that their doors were secure/locked.
@Git Em SteveDave loves this guy–>: They are Barn door style doors not rool up so the driver has to pull away from the dock to be able to close them
@armour: I just saw that, which begs the question: why didn’t they roll out as he backed the truck up to the dock?
@Git Em SteveDave loves this guy–>: Presumably the trailer was empty, or loaded with different cargo, when backed up to the loading dock, then was loaded with cards after they offloaded the existing cargo.
@Git Em SteveDave loves this guy–>: I just assumed that the truck was empty when it backed in and then they loaded the carts onto it.
@Git Em SteveDave loves this guy->★: Wouldn’t the carts want to roll forwards, toward the cab and be stopped by the front of the trailer if the truck backed up with them?
@MrsLopsided: If it’s fake, then what’s the point? To make people laugh for five seconds, then completely forget about it? And meanwhile you’ve spent all that time loading carts onto a truck and will now have to spend all that time cleaning them up? Who would do that?
@MrsLopsided: not fake, cant shut the doors when they’re against the dock. But it looks like one employee was thinking with that board, but right before he got to place it the trucker moved, and then in the second wave he was starting to move again, just a simple case of bad dock-to-truck communication, or just a drunk trucker.
L.O.D. to the load deck. L.O.D. to the load deck.
@jblake1:
We’ll need a few GSTLs at least
It had to be a swift driver.
@verucalise: Or a J.B Hunt driver, but the trailer was white, Swift driver.
@MightyDwarf56: BTW Folks SWIFT=Sure Wish I Finished Training.
I saw this video on Break.com the other day. It looks to me like this is the DRIVER’S fault and no one else’s. Clearly, the employee with the board was trying to figure out a way to wedge it into the truck so the carts wouldn’t do that, and the driver just took off without checking if he was cleared to.
@SJActress: Wouldn’t CLOSING THE DOOR have helped?
@Oranges w/ Cheese:
It appears that he was about to unload the carts, so having the door open was needed.
I think when the one gentleman was standing there staring at the back of the truck, he was looking at the brake lights. He was smart enough not to step into a truck which may or may not be about to take off. Imagine what would have happened if he had been in the truck.
@Oranges w/ Cheese:
Loading docks are designed so that you can open the door while the truck is backed up against them.
@Oranges w/ Cheese: Can’t close swing doors while the trailer is backed into the dock. Only rollup doors can be closed that way. This trailer was the type that had to be pulled out to close the doors. Closing the dock garage style door wouldn’t have kept the carts in the trailer… there just wouldn’t be this exellent video to show the result.
I once worked for this company. We did a new store once and these carts were stacked two high! Imagine unloading those off of a trailer. I have unloaded trucks my entire working life and never had a worse time.
When did the back door become a “small detail”?
Wasn’t this posted a few weeks ago?
@campredeye: It’s been floating around the interwebs for a couple weeks, you may have seen it somewhere else.
@campredeye: It was on the front page of Yahoo a couple of weeks ago.
@sprocket79: I think I saw it on Olbermann a couple weeks ago.
I can verify it’s real; I work in IT for Target, and that video’s been making the rounds internally for about a month now. Surprised it took this long to leak. Just wait until the one from the warehouse, with the sprinkler, comes out. (you’ll know what I’m talking about when you see it) It’s even better.
One of my friends who formerly worked for Target says this happens all the time – not with carts – but drivers quite often will drive off with people still in the trucks.
He said that with the loading dock still down its obvious the driver wasn’t cleared to drive off. That one guy is just lucky he wasn’t ON the truck. He would’ve experienced death by shopping cart.
@Oranges w/ Cheese: Can you Darwin award?
[www.darwinawards.com]
@JohnnyP:
no, the darwin award is only “awarded” to someone that does something stupid… incredibly stupid… and dies from that.
A driver pulling away from the dock while an employee is standing there and gets crushed by carts would be tragic and of no fault of the employee.
@absentmindedjwc: They don’t have to die, just remove themselves from the gene pool. Castration will do.
@Oranges w/ Cheese:
I just SAID that! lol
This would explain why my online orders always get delayed. All their employees too busy reloading shopping carts into their trucks.
As an exercise for the employees who never passed high school physics, we’ve set up a demonstration on inertia. You’ll notice how the objects, initially at rest, tend to remain at rest.
@teh: Shh!! What are you doing?? If high school physics were adequately taught in this country, the YouTube-America’s Funniest Videos Industrial Complex would collapse.
Actually, that was a good thing for the employees not to have tried and stop the carts, and I am glad that no one was hurt. I worked for a Wal-Mart distribution center when I was in college, and we had a lift driver killed when a driver pulled out of the dock door unexpectedly. Hopefully, the driver is banned from the Target it happened at, since the driver has a big shiny red light that tells him/her that the dock door is still open.
For those of you that have never been on a loading dock, you should know you can’t close the trailer doors until the truck pulls away from the dock a few feet and the driver gets out to close them. So unless this is just a good fake, it is clearly the fault of the stupid dock workers no securing the load.
Still funnny as hell though.
I guess wheel chocks aren’t mandatory…
@Chols: A lot of the Target docks I have seen are on a downgrade towards the building, so they can’t roll anywhere. Besides, IIRC, don’t trailers have air brakes, which require air pressure from the truck to deactivate the brakes?
@Git Em SteveDave loves this guy–>: He’s talking about wheel chocks for hte shopping carts.
“Bombardier to pilot, weapons drop on TARGET.”
Two words:
Load Retainer.
When I saw this on Olbermann I figured this was two guys, bored with their minimum wage job, who figured they’d found a funny and clever way to unload a truck full of shopping carts.
on the flip side…it looks like a great way to unload carts !
This is real Walmart quality work here son, please step up your game.
Fools
so… what were they thinking exactly?
@elislider: Thinking? Objection! Assumes facts not in evidence.
failblog.org is my new favorite website — hundreds of pages of pure FAIL!
@Doreen DelPurgatorio: Then you missed the one “success” the other day.
@Doreen DelPurgatorio: I used to visit that site until they posted this abomination and quickly followed it up with the heinous caption below this FAIL.
Hello, Target Employees!
I’d like you to meet my friend, Inertia!
Actually… giggles aside….
People die when this kind of thing happens. When you are loading a truck, especially with electric pallet jacks, lifts, etc… you can DIE when the truck pulls away while you’re loading. It’s damn lucky one of the yuksters on the dock didn’t fall out/off and break something.
Honestly… the driver should be suspended/fired. And… they should get a decent dock release procedure (and some restraints!).
@Ubermunch: Agreed.
I’d be surprised if the driver wasn’t disciplined.
@Ubermunch: Actually, I was just thinking about that comment earlier about how “this kind of thing happens all the time” and the driver drives off with “people still in the back of the truck.” If that’s true, it sounds like OSHA needs to pay ‘em a little visit.
pppppppfffffffftttttttt BBBBUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAHAHHAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHAHAHA!
god that is indeed priceless
That’s not just fail..that’s grand-epic-super-fail!
On the other hand, if you have a rig full of shopping carts and need to empty it in record time…
Great video! It’s funny whether it’s a setup or not.
On a side note, I love the new style shopping carts at Target. They’re all plastic,and they’re super easy to push. The ones in the video look to be the old style. I’d love the hear the cacophony of all those carts coming out of that truck.
I work on the loading dock where I work from time to time. While most truckers are great guys,there are some real dandies out there too. The poor guy could’ve been worked so hard he just plain forgot to shut the door also.
This is actually a pretty common occurrence. So common that some warehouses use clamping systems to make sure drivers don’t run off with a trailer that has a conveyor, forklift or person in it.
about midway, one women gestures to someone else to get a camera.
Aside from the safety issues, I laughed my butt off at this when I first saw it.
the sprinkler one is up. Its EVEN BETTER.
wow…that is classic
I’m guessing these guys have never heard of a load bar…