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Default Tire plugs (was rain)

On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:01:30 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

I've had at least one roofing nail, a wood screw and even a couple
small machine thread screws.
Yep, I say every time "How in the hell did that happen"?


I used to go to a tire shop up north that had a jar on the countertop
filled with strange stuff that they had taken out of tires. Most of
it was totally unbelievable. There is something about the dynamic of
a rolling tire that picks things up in a very counterintuitive way.