The Evolution of Tires ...

[Bill Boehme]

As Cretaceous Tire emerges from the primordial soup to begin its life on dry land, its initial locomotion was by slithering on its side. Many epochs passed before tires finally got rolling.

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[FlyingPhotog]

ROFL...

The narrative makes it ! Nice...

[Hark Photography]

Like the narrative ... pic very average but would be improved with a tight crop on the tyre ... the water above it adds nothing IMO.

[chauncey]

In keeping with the narrative...clone on some small legs, eyes, and antennae.

On the New World side of the pond, it's "tire". :lol:

[Bill Boehme]

ROFL...

The narrative makes it ! Nice...

... the narrative is the only reason that I even considered posting the picture. :oops:

Like the narrative ... pic very average but would be improved with a tight crop on the tyre ... the water above it adds nothing IMO.

As we would say in Texas, "the picture ain't nothin' to write home about".

In keeping with the narrative...clone on some small legs, eyes, and antennae.

it's a thought, but the image isn't any better than the tire. Any way that you look at it, it is still like putting lipstick on a pig.

The reason for the picture:

While trying to get a decent shot of a great blue heron (which I did not manage to do), I saw a lot of stuff like this tire that had been dumped into our local small lake. The water level had dropped several feet in recent weeks due to very dry weather and what normally appears to be a clean shoreline was suddenly not so clean. I took this picture and a few others to help persuade the parks board to take advantage of the low water conditions to remove some of this litter. It was while reviewing the pictures that I had this mental image of a prehistoric tire slithering up on dry land out of the murky water. Glad that it was worth a snicker or two, but I am hoping that this species will be eradicated from our lake. Obviously, it is not endangered as it seems to have establish itself worldwide.

[PBeeee]

I hope you use your narrative in your presentation to the parks board. Just once I would like to be entertained at a meeting, even only for 30 seconds.

[Titus213]

I like it, the image fits the narrative. Got a real chuckle out of me.

Not too long ago I worked with an inventor/developer working on a system to deal with these tires, basically a recycle system. They are actually worth some money, just not enough to justify the work involved in removing them. There are huge tire dumps, mostly illegal, all over the US and the world. And it's a shame. You would think people would know better.

[Bill Boehme]

I hope you use your narrative in your presentation to the parks board. Just once I would like to be entertained at a meeting, even only for 30 seconds.

Thanks for the idea. Usually presentations are so dull that nobody really listens.

I like it, the image fits the narrative. Got a real chuckle out of me.

Not too long ago I worked with an inventor/developer working on a system to deal with these tires, basically a recycle system. They are actually worth some money, just not enough to justify the work involved in removing them. There are huge tire dumps, mostly illegal, all over the US and the world. And it's a shame. You would think people would know better.

Even disposing of tires in a landfill would be better than making a park look like a landfill. Our county does collect tires for recycling which is good -- it would be even better if people cared.