less likely to leap at you and tear out gaping chunks THE MORAL PROBLEM of your flesh or fling shrapnel into your eyes. Is it stealing to take one of these carts and perma-

The right chair design will require very few cuts. nently alter it? The moral problem is complex. You The chair is already there. As I mentioned, you’re just may need to consult a philosopher. releasing it. You could buy a new shopping cart for about $100

Clamp a couple of boards to make the crease from the factory. But would it be wrong to bring of the bend happen where you want it. This was a more shopping carts into a world overcrowded with tricky diagonal bend and it took a lot of leverage unwanted ones? from the long sticks to make it happen. And what if you tried to return the cart to its rightful 2. The finished bend. Bending the metalwork hardens owner? The iron and other materials in the cart it. It’s very difficult to change if you bend it wrong. came from stolen Native lands, as does the land you 3. For the next bend, I made a tool from pipes and are standing on. Your philosopher will need some bolted it onto the protruding arm piece. Even with all time to work on this problem. that leverage, it takes some wrestling to make a nice In the meantime let’s just say, “It’s for the children!” curve. File the burrs off the ends of the cut wires. A and grab as many as we need. crutch handle makes a good file handle. Kids love a shopping cart chair. They can spend 4. Clamp a couple of boards on the front edge of the hours of fun racing around with it. It’s also good as a chair and bend it down. Another method of finishing camera dolly for making home movies. The camera the front edge is to carve the inner projections of person sits in the chair. You can get amazingly smooth the bumper so they’ll fit over the wire, and slide the footage zooming down hallways and through rooms. retaining rod through the holes. 5. Two different chairs, two different styles. Don’t leave them outside though, because they will rust.