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Aug 10, 2019 3:27 AM
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ThatWeirdNorsePagan
Those are called Sticker Burrs
klean9
Hate that when that happens. Told my kids the other day “Pick up you damn goat heads when you’re done playing with them!” Jeez.
Goronhead
What even is the point of them looking like this? Why they gotta be that way!
slintbob
I stepped on one 30 years ago and I can still remember the feeling.
FEMAcampsarereal
Bindi eyes
nonCanadianGoose
Natures caltrops
brekko
More like caltrops are synthetic goat heads
onecowboytoo
Most of you all have never even stepped on a nail that went completely through your foot.
sylkysmooth
Yeah, it's the removing them that's even more'f a pain, for sure. Not only is it in yer foot it's prickin' yer fingers too an shizz.
AttackOfTheSpaceBat
We always called them sand spurs.
cabalin
We called them stickers
ShakeItLikeAPoloridPicture
Why are you walking barefoot then ?
Effehezepe
Because I'm inside of my own house, and the dogs brought them in
RipOffTheBandAid
Every life choice personified
NoelHernes
We call them 3 corner Jacks... they grow everywhere in South Australia. So painful memories of falling off bike in a patch of them.
SnekID87
I felt this picture and I don't appreciate the flashbacks.
RespiratoryRandy
Loved getting one in my socks, too.
Freeze011
or step on a d4...
jenzhere99
As a child with an aversion to shoes I stepped on many sand spurs in my day. Painful AF!
CatchingBubbles
What devilery is this?!
TheUtahn
I hate these! I gave a big tears and sometimes my dogs get them and come to me to pull them out.
sundaymondayhippyday
My dog just stands there, foot up.... help!!
tauceti
https://imgur.com/egbia6f stepping on these bastards when they fell and dried were pretty bad too
sicknsweet
I think iI would see s goat'd head before stepping on it.
thescottishfox
Had these in NC and SC, and they fuckin suck. You know where they're not? In MA.
BladeTurMoiL
Theyre highly invasive and spread like fire. It’ll just take one person on a flight from somewhere else and a couple years to infest
UglyHorribleGrouchyOldMan
My grandfather had 5-gallon buckets of caltrops he continually made to scatter on trails dirtbikes & hunters kept cutting on his acreage. 2/
UglyHorribleGrouchyOldMan
2/ Its been 40 years since he passed, but I still kept them.
MCFUDDLENUTS
These little bastards helped me to learn how to work on bicycles and patch holes in rubber.
Opportunist
I became very adept at patching my bicycle tires in the 5th grade in Arizona. Jaysus!
HEXADECIMAL
I actually got a flat tire a few times from these bastards, insanity, but the tire guy said it's quite common.
TragicShenanigans
when I was a kid I used tire guards and green goo sealant and those bastards still ended up destroying my tubes!!
2graves
Goo.
ScaredSpitless
I learned of their existence by finding NINE of the little shits in a new tube I'd replaced right before the trip. Got maybe 15 minutes
SirButcher
My record is 17. I spent all of my pocket money for tires on that summer. I hated them.
Soviet74
Thats the plant that loved by biycycles tire shops
Totallyscrewedinaustin
Same! And to never walk barefoot, even in the house!
TheSomethingSomethingGenericReplyGuy
And how to be my dog's first responder
TheCakeisALieiKnowiChecked
Where do you live?
Totallyscrewedinaustin
Grew up in New Mexico
Mac87ProblemPrince
Especially when those bastards get stuck under ur sandal.
iamlurkerllama
Dude the struggle is real
Taishosama
also they burn a little. like they're coated in chili powder or satans skin flakes
SylerUbora
Parents have a strip of their property infested with these. Chased my dog through it barefoot exactly once. Never again.
edwardelricsnipples
Oh they're poisoned for sure
apeshigh
But are not generally found in your house when walking to the bathroom in the middle of the night.... On another note, D4s > Lego
Taishosama
they can be, not generally, but they hitch a right on shoes, jeans, pets. stepped on one on my way to the restroom. better then coffee.
ICantCount
Are you kidding I had the tracked in side before. At least you can see legos
ShoopDeDoop
People who say stepping on a goat head is the worst feeling in the world have never felt the agony of stepping on an IED.
BladeTurMoiL
Go back to ‘Nam grandpa. You aint no hero, this is 2019 wars will be fought with remote control robots soon
Flodos
People who stepped on an IED should suck it up, they don't know true pain, like stepping on a lego. /s
The2ndToLastStarfighter
sundaymondayhippyday
iamlurkerllama
Never said it was the worst just saying it sucks a bag of dicks
IronGravyBoat
Well you said the only thing worse than stepping on them is pulling them out.
disturbingfavourites
Shaka Zulu made his troops run over these barefoot. He believed sandals slows down a soldier. He also invented the spear with the long blade
disturbingfavourites
and shorter shaft which was very good for stabbing. Even named it after the sound it makes when you stab someone.
sundaymondayhippyday
He’s a sadist !
disturbingfavourites
Captured enemies would be hoisted on sharpened poles stuck into their asses.
Brandy321
or a sweet gum pod https://img0.etsystatic.com/034/0/8511832/il_fullxfull.546483426_aw8s.jpg
DriverIRQnotlessOrEqual
Natures caltrops
Justwarlockthings
ThatOneFriendWhoTriesTooHard
Oh, those aren't that bad. Look wirse than they really are. Sand burs are way worse.
disodiumbenzoate
So that’s what those things are
Toast0nFire
Growing up me and my friends would throw these at each other, they hurt like a bitch but it was still fun
brekko
Usually their spine dispersion and rigidity is such that it doesn't break the skin though, these things look a lot more nefarious.
sundaymondayhippyday
I never knew the name thanks! Sweet Gum Pod...
Grimmginger
Liquid Amber is the tree
NoSpeedyForYou
We had this is my yard as a kid https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castanea_sativa
SciFiLifter
You should eat those
Ilovestormswolvesbees
That’s what I was looking for. They’re bigger than golf balls almost tennis ball size
dootdootfloop
Conkers wtf . That's a childs game in UK hitting them together
RufusTheBlue
Until the world went crazy and conkers was banned from our schools. Urgh...
dootdootfloop
It was the vinegar dipping I bet.
RufusTheBlue
That or tne storing next ro the boiler to 'dry it out'
Orhoz
In the south we call them cockle burrs
Wingedgrim
Of course you do.
iamlurkerllama
I’m in Texas we call them goat head stickers
helmsmanl33742
From Tx and we called them cockleburrs
MalePatternBlackness
Central Texas, we call them stickers.
iamlurkerllama
Central Texas too! What part?
MalePatternBlackness
Outside San Antonio, Bulverde. I'm living in Maryland for now. Plan to move back some day.