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A spark plug. I was driving through the parking lot of a shopping center in Los Angeles. One of the stores was a Pep Boys Auto Parts. Some numbskull had changed his spark plugs outside the store and left one in the drive. I didn't see it. Tire was flatter than a crushed mouse almost immediately.
Ran a horseshoe through a tire on my old '46 Willys CJ2A up in the Sierra once. Must have been in a mudhole on the old logging road when I went through it.
L.W.
"Always go straight forward, and if you meet the devil, cut him in two and go between the pieces." (William Sturgis, clipper ship captain, 1830s.)
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3/8 in drill bit. Half a set of bicycle breaks. Freaking Self tapping steel screws (they are common at stop light intersections). Mesquite thorns, ditto, ditto.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time by the blood of patriots and tyrants.
If being stupid allows me to believe in Him, I'd wish to be a retard. Eisenhower and G Washington should be good company.
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And you got away with what? 
Last edited by eyeball; 01/18/12.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time by the blood of patriots and tyrants.
If being stupid allows me to believe in Him, I'd wish to be a retard. Eisenhower and G Washington should be good company.
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Working at a tire shop, pulled a crescent wrench out of single tread on a toyo m/t. It was half through, sideways. Didn't penetrate the tire.
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It is better to be judged by 12 than to be carried by 6.
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It is better to be judged by 12 than to be carried by 6.
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Antler, really sucks when it's a big tractor tire.
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Count me in for one horseshoe, too. Nails weren't bent down, front tire picked the whole thing up, didn't realize it until I was back on the road, thought I heard something, drove alittle faster...WACK right into the wheel well. Stopped just in time to watch the tire deflated from a bunch of holes in a 'U' shape.
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Who needs chains when you can drive horseshoes?
Fantastic traction!
Jim
BE STRONG IN THE LORD, AND IN HIS MIGHTY POWER. ~ Ephesians 6:10
Socialism is a philosophy of failure,
the creed of ignorance,
and the gospel of envy,
its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
--Winston Churchill
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just found a big screw in mine, now that i cleaned the mud off.
changing tires at 4K feet on a two track trail along the side of a mountain, in the mud, ain't fun.
WhoTF left a screw up there?
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My best is bass boat anchor that fell outta some dumb mass's truck with no tailgate. The wife said she was behind this outfit going 55mph down the highway and he hits a pothole and the daym thing comes rolling out down the highway.
She hits it and somehow get all flopped up inside the rear fender well and lodges itself in there so tight, the tire tread gets sliced up before she can safely get pulled over.
I looked for that truck for several days(small town). I was gonna return his anchor to him via rectal implantation.
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My other was a friggin windshield wiper arm I ran over at the crusher salvage yard. With my F250, brand spankin new tires too. Was backing my truck up to leave and heard a big "woooosh" !!!!!  Guys at the salvage were pretty cool about and ran to their crane and got me some compound, rope plug and t-handle and we were off and outta there.
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Screwdrivers, wooden stakes, wrenches, bolts, ... Used to work at a tire store (Discount Tire).
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I've been an auto mechanic for 30+ years. My own tires have found somebodies lost screwdrive and a wrench.
Ken
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I got out of my truck one day and heard air leaking from one of my tires.I went ahead and changed it before it went completely flat.I dropped it off at the station to get repaired.When I came back to pick up the tire,the worker said "look,look,look what I found in your tire".He held three pieces of metal in his hands.I had run over a flat bastard file and he was holding ten inches of the twelve inch file.I guess it broke into pieces as the tire rotated.
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
As Bob Hagel would say"You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong."Good words of wisdom...............
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A pair of needle nosed pliers.
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Old three blade pocket knife, minus the scales.
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