Let's be realistic here. Most everywhere has laws regarding public disorderliness and the like.
The implication here is that this guy was not just a little wobbly going down the isle. That he was being a major moron and slamming around in the cart. He rams that cart into an older person or kid and whammo, broken arm. Followed by gazillion dollar lawsuit. Or some old lady hip is fractured and she never walks again. Your mother or aunt maybe?
Sorry, but I do all the grocery shopping and it would be very easy to injure someone if you were being a total a$$ like that Personally, I'd have tripped the SOB and kicked him in the nads. I'm fed up with going places in public and being subjected to that kind of crap. If it happened when my kid was 3 and went with me, they wouldn't have need the cops. Just an ambulance.
Police say his shopping-cart swerve-a-thon endangered other shoppers.To convict him they have to prove your theory of actual or potential harm. Good luck.
Most ironic, this, in the aftermath of the Scotus ruling approving theft in New London and everywhere else. O'Conner's dissent made clear that any taking not explicitly accorded to the "public use" clause must prove "harm" in the property taken. None here.