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I'm guessing one of these
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Not one of these
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A handgun. Not the barrel or revolver cylinder, just the handle and frame.

I’m going to switch to bicycles. For years I ride on Kevlar armored tires. They were gold. Finally met my match one day. An open safety pin had been pushed up at the perfect angle to go through the sidewall. At least it happened close to home.

https://www.harborfreight.com/11-in-90-bent-nose-long-reach-pliers-64087.html

Needle nose pliers with a 90 deg bend.

One of my boys did not do a thorough enough cleanup after a job one time when he first started working on cars. I backed over it on my way to work the next morning.
Lessons learned. He cleaned up better after that. I watched for more debris anyway just in case.
Now this tool will forever be known in our family as "the tire poppers".
Almost worth the trouble it brought for the laughs now days.

A grapefruit sized wad of wire.

We once got a flat in a rental car on Maui while driving around near Makena on the south side of the island. But a few days before that, we were at Volcanoes Natn'l Park on the Big Island, and ignoring tales of bad juju for removing lava rock from the islands, I picked up a small piece to bring home as a souvenir of the trip.

Now about the flat. We're driving along in a fairly remote area when the LR tire suddenly goes down. I don't hear a 'pop' or anything, the tire just goes flat, so I put on the spare and stop at the first gas station I see to get it fixed. The guy comes back with the tire and says that he didn't find a puncture or any other damage but shows me what he DID find. In his hand were a few very small lava pebbles that were jammed INSIDE the cap on the valve stem. They had somehow managed to press on the pin and cause the tire to go flat! And the weird thing is that we'd been driving around in that car for a few days before this without incident. Cue up the 'Twilight Zone' theme music.

Needless to say, I returned that pilfered lava rock back to the island ASAP http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1755058686.gif

My wife had that happen to her car, before she was my wife.
Some kids put small rocks under the valve stem caps to slowly bleed the air out.

I had a 3/8" diameter x 2.5" long sheet metal bolt give me a flat way back when I was working.
I remember driving to work at @5:30AM and it's still dark out. Taking the 405 N to 105 W exit I ran over something going around the 'Nascar' turn as I called it.

This was in my BMW 325e.

I heard a loud 'FWAP' on the right side as the lanes went down to only one lane.
I parked in my usual parking spot in the parking garage and looked at the rocker panel on the passenger side. Found a large black mark that looked like it came from a piece of tire rubber.

Didn't think much of it and went on in to work.

Came out to go home and find I have a totally flat front tire on the passenger side.

I changed the tire and was glad I'd checked the air in the spare.

Got the tire off and found the bolt firmly embedded in the tread, right smack dab in the middle.
Tire shop put a plug in it and I had them put a patch over the plug on the inside just to do the 'belts and suspenders' type repair I used to do when working at the gas station.

Tire took a little more weight than usual to balance it after that but it was good for many more miles of commuting.

Only thing I could think of was that bolt must have been used to hold a mud flap on and it'd fallen off.

I used to carry that bolt around in my tool box that I kept in the car as a reminder of how lucky I was that morning that the tire didn't go flat instantly. I might not be here today to tell the story if it had.

a medain curb :(

not my shiniest moment.

Big-@ss bungey cord....Thwap-Thwap-Thwap-Thwap..."WTF IS THAT?"

I don’t know what caused it, but my low tire pressure light went on and a millisecond later, I had a blowout at 65MPH on the Mark Clark bridge in Charleston, in heavy traffic. Had to make my way over to the breakdown lane and drive about a mile slowly to the exit.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1755110995.jpg
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1755110995.jpg

Another one: I was at a loading dock getting some construction supplies. Guys next to me were all disorganized (typical for construction) and unloading some demo debris in order to put some plywood or drywall in their truck and ostensibly put the junk back in.

I pulled out in the middle of this fracas and backed just over the edge of a 2x4 with nails sticking out and up just right to go through the sidewall of my rear tire. I had to buy a tire to go to work. Fortunately there was a tire shop really close. I didn't have a full size spare for that particular vehicle so driving to my job pulling a trailer was not happening.

To say that I was out-of-control angry would be about right. I had to bite it or be in trouble. There were far more labor types, if you get my drift, than just one older dude who would not have won the fight. Probably the way I am is because of all the stupid, ignorant low life people that one has to deal with in construction. It only got worse with time, as did I.

A dog.
I was on my bike and a dog tried to attack me. He somehow got between the crank and the rear wheel. I’m not sure exactly what went on down there, but the dog ran away leaving a trail of blood and my bike tire was flat.

Hauled the travel trailer 7.5 hours back to the house. Woke up and found one tire flat and another one with a slight sidewall bulge.
The unusual thing about trailer tires is they often just surrender to the pressure difference.....
They were 4 or 5 years old and I am thankful that they didn't let me down on a very busy highway.
4 new tires mounted today and I pick them up tomorrow.

I ran over a bag of roofing nails, the worst! Bye bye tire. I was pissed until I realized they fell out of the back of my truck