Tumbleweeds invade a California town and residents have to call 911

That’s actually what we do in my hometown, and not just because they’re unsightly. If you burn them, you burn the seeds, too. The high-tech method used by the County Fairgrounds Committee is to fill an old spray bottle with gas and use a cigarette lighter to make a crude flamethrower.

For the botany nerds, tumbleweeds are Russian Thistles.
Russian Thistles

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