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RE: [DL] Interesting note about a tumbleweed
Iffy. They aren't soft, but they aren't that massive, either. Think of a pricker bush rolled up into a ball, and you've got the right idea. Most likely this guy ran into a Tumbleweed (Russian Thistle) with something extra in it. I don't know how it managed to break this guy's windshield--they're designed to be light enough to be blown by a fairly minor wind I would have been careful because the d*mn things get caught in chains and do evil things to everything that the chain touches.
Because they're dead before they start tp tumble, however, they make great desert fire lighters.
Lived too long in Las Cruces, Land of Entrapment.
John
Original Message:
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From: Sean Michael Whipkey highway@cstone.net
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 15:31:31 -0400
To: deadlands@gamerz.net
Subject: [DL] Interesting note about a tumbleweed
From a post on rec.motorcycles.harley:
First, tumbleweeds are not as soft as I thought they were.
Me and the old lady were riding through the Oklahoma panhandle in
early May on our way out to Sante Fe. A ferocious cross-wind was
blowing, not making the trip any easier. We were dodging tumbleweeds
on and off when one jumps out of the ditch and BAM! shatters the
windshield, bruises my leg and takes everything but the bike's key off
the key chain. Damn, I had to buy a new lock because the other key was
at home.
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I always thought they were somewhat soft, too. It might be interesting
to surprise a posse with a normal tumbleweed, blown hard by the wind,
that beats them up. Watch them try to treat it like a tumblebleed...:-)
SeanMike
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