Tumbleweeds on I-5
Porky
Saw one today that was 6 ft across.
Mark Folsom
into a semi.
Or maybe it will cause some superficial scratches in your clear coat.
Mark Folsom
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a fire, and your car could explode.
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>Whats the worst thing that can happen if I hit a tumbleweed on the freeway?
>Saw one today that was 6 ft across.
Actually Russian Thisles. <g>
I hit one once on the right side of my car at about 70 and it left
scratches down the side of the car as it was dragged along.
After that I spent about 30 minutes picking pieces out of the grill
and radiator wearing a pair of heavy gloves because the thorns.
The Real Bev
>
> Or it might get caught on the underside of your car, near the exhaust, start
> a fire, and your car could explode.
Or part of it could fly in the window and put your eye out.
> Mark Folsom wrote:
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> > It gets stuck over your windshield and you can't see and you run head on
> > into a semi.
> >
> > Or maybe it will cause some superficial scratches in your clear coat.
> >
> > "Porky" <pork...@aol.com.NOTBX> wrote:
> > > Whats the worst thing that can happen if I hit a tumbleweed on the
> > > freeway?
> > > Saw one today that was 6 ft across.
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Charles Quinn
>Whats the worst thing that can happen if I hit a tumbleweed on the freeway?
>Saw one today that was 6 ft across.
It causes you to swerve into a bus full of nuns, who in turn take out a van
full of buddhist monks, who smack into the farm truck full of farmhands that
overturns, causing the truck full of radioactive waste from Lawrence Livermore
to overturn, who is then hit by the truck carrying a rocket motor from United
Technologies in San Jose (headed for Vandenberg) causing it to run into a fuel
truck which ruptures igniting the fuel is the sparks of bus load of nuns. The
resulting intense flames causes a sympathetic conflagaration of the rocket
motor, which in turn slams into the casks of radioactive wastes cracking them
open which then spills into a waterway that feeds the California Aqueduct.
This leads to millions of people to die early deaths, from horrible cancers,
by drinking radioactive contaminated water. You too succumb to a
rate fatal cancer. Interstate 5 has to be relocated due to the radioactive
contamination. The nuns and buddhists are incinerated along with the farm
laborers. Your family name is cursed for centuries (can you say Mudd) and
subsequent generations of your family disavow any connection to you.
Moral of the story is to keep your hands on the wheel, and don't overreact.
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John David Galt
> Whats the worst thing that can happen if I hit a tumbleweed on the freeway?
> Saw one today that was 6 ft across.
If you run over it, it might tear some of your belts or hoses. Other than
that, don't worry about it, unless you are driving a convertible.
Marc Warden
> Whats the worst thing that can happen if I hit a tumbleweed on the freeway?
> Saw one today that was 6 ft across.
Its survivors sue you....
Driving somewhere (I5 maybe or I40 between Barstow and Needles or maybe I70
across eastern Nevada) in high wind and had a big old tumbleweed come flying
across road and hit side of car.
No damage to car but I almost had a heart attack!
Sincerely,
MarcW.
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> Driving somewhere (I5 maybe or I40 between Barstow and Needles or
> maybe I70 across eastern Nevada) in high wind and had a big old
> tumbleweed come flying across road and hit side of car.
>
> No damage to car but I almost had a heart attack!
Outside Tucson in the seventies, I hit, headon, a huge tumbleweed at
about 75 MPH. The thing totally disintegrated upon impact. It was pretty
cool, but I wouldn't do it again if I could avoid it.
Joel Garry
Years ago there was a "Furry Freak Brothers" comic, where a tumbleweed
gets caught under their VeeDub van, catches fire, and burns the whole thing
up. Some other tumbleweeds are grinning evilly and saying "soon the highways
will be ours."
Tumbleweeds are not native to America, but came over from England in the
1850's. They don't tumble in England, they just look like weeds.
jg
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