Tumbleweeds invade a California town and residents have to call 911

[Carla_Sinclair]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/04/18/tumbleweeds-invade-a-californi.html

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[generic_name]

Could be worse. . . it coulda been tribbles.

[longbelly]

Has anyone heard from the Victorville Film Archives?!!

[anon55609254]

[cannibalpeas]

Why don’t they just burn them?

Wait, no don’t do that.

[Sludge]

And I’m talkin’ about the Dude, here.

[Deborah_Caruso]

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dwG6MO92xtI/maxresdefault.jpg
come now, I came here for this!

[Keith_McClary]

@Carla_Sinclair

allow residents safe access to their homes

Here, the town makes our homes inaccessible and we have to dig our own way out.

[CCinBmore]

Exact same though sequence here. They look like they’d light right up…

[tsath]

[Mindysan33]

Yeah, that wouldn’t be a great idea, would it, rolling balls of fire!

[GulliverFoyle]

It’s all part of their plan…

[Akimbo_NOT]

I used to live in Alamogordo, N.M where we had 10ft walls to try and keep them out. They would pile up and form a ramp then just bounce on over Masada style.

[Mister44]

Now you have a use for that Elon Musk torch. Just don’t burn your house down.

[RickMycroft]

For the Overmind!

[Sqyntz]

are we sure they’re not just lawn ornaments?

[akbar5656]

[clintcarlson77]

…and that’s why you don’t ever bring a tribble weed home with you.

[Mangochin]

My exact thoughts were to that Outer Limits episode (with Eddy Albert).

[Melz2]

@Mindysan33

Yeah, that wouldn’t be a great idea, would it, rolling balls of fire!

“Goodness, gracious…”