Cockleburs

[GRANNYL]

Those suckers dont appear everywhere, though. We have them in TN (where we used to live) and you go through places that are filled, when just another couple miles down the road there arent any. I dont know for certain if FL is the same way...but Id think its probable.

Well I can!! LOL! I went into a wooded area along with 10 others searching for Caylee and I came out covered from head to toe, front and back, in my hair under my shirt and no one else had any! Go figure! It took several people picking them off me when I got back to the command center about 10 minutes and I still had some when I got back to my Hotel that night. That was one day out of three and the only time so guess it's hit or miss.:crazy:

Edited to add: What I was covered in was what we called "tag-a-longs" not cockleburs that have thorns, sorry my mistake. These things are like velcro stick to everything.

 

[BionicSurfer]

The dreaded Florida State weed=hitch hikers!


Not that we don't enjoy a decent cocklebur every now and again.:crazy:

 

[TURBOTHINK]

Those little suckers were everywhere here. I'm still trying to pick them off clothing and backpacks !!

I spent every evening picking those off my clothes and off my socks.(even covered by boots and jeans) I know those things can travel, my socks prove it. LOL

You can take a dryer sheet and get them off if not too firmly attached, but I would never wash my clothes with them still on them because little pieces get in the fabric and stick you later. (hey, that is an idea.........wonder if LE checked those clothes for pieces in the fabric?)

 

[TURBOTHINK]

Well I can!! LOL! I went into a wooded area along with 10 others searching for Caylee and I came out covered from head to toe, front and back, in my hair under my shirt and no one else had any! Go figure! It took several people picking them off me when I got back to the command center about 10 minutes and I still had some when I got back to my Hotel that night. That was one day out of three and the only time so guess it's hit or miss.:crazy:

Edited to add: What I was covered in was what we called "tag-a-longs" not cockleburs that have thorns, sorry my mistake. These things are like velcro stick to everything.

I am telling you those buggers "travel." LOL

 

[Amster]

I have thrown away MANY pairs of socks when the boys would come in covered in those demons! No possible way of getting them detached from socks.....grrrrrr

 

[GRANNYL]

Not sure about open field areas, but I would think you wouldn't find them in a dumpster.

You got that right!!:clap:

 

[GRANNYL]

The dreaded Florida State weed=hitch hikers!
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Not that we don't enjoy a decent cocklebur every now and again.:crazy:

This is what I was covered with and just as thick all over!

 

[passionflower]

I just never have believed that KC exerted herself very much in disposing of Caylee. First off, she never seems to have always worn much of anything but flip flops. Secondly, I just can't see her in the woods after dark, tromping around in mud or bushes. She would not dirty herself, IMOO.

What ever she did do, she was just lucky, IMOO - not smart. She may have driven across an isolated bridge and dumped her over. Caylee's remains may surface in the future when there is another dry spell or maybe a fisherman's lure will eventually snag her. Or she may be very near a path in an area that was not searched, covered with bramble and brush.

my thoughts exactly! :behindbar

 

[FloridaKatz]

Maybe I'm calling them the wrong thing. They are brown in color, and they look like miniature round cactuses. My mother always called them cockleburs, but maybe they are called something else.

 

[impatientredhead]

Just as a side note, in FL most places have several pickups for trash, because of the heat and we also have a recyling day. I have 3 pick-up a week. I don't know if this helps, but some people wanted to know if KC knew when trash day was and waited. Because of that, if she were in a dumpster it would be very hard to find her, even with GPS of the dumpsite.

I also don't think she buried her, just too much work for her.

Someone posted a link yesterday when we were discussing trash pick up days, for Tony's place it is Monday and Thursday (didn't look at recycling). Thursday of course works with the forensic data of 2.6 days, but the entire north side of the city is collected on Thursdays so that doesn't really pinpoint which dumpster. Tony's seems convenient, a place where she wouldn't be noticed as she belongs there, and she had a trash bag from Tony's apt in the trunk.....

 

[GRANNYL]

Maybe I'm calling them the wrong thing. They are brown in color, and they look like miniature round cactuses. My mother always called them cockleburs, but maybe they are called something else.

Who knows I think we all have a different name for them. LOL! Tag-a-longs and I remember hitch hikers like someone said and have no clue the correct name but the picture Posted by BionicSurfer The dreaded Florida State weed=hitch hikers! Attachment 1015 is the one I'm talking about. I think the sticker one is called sand spurs don't know why because I sometimes get them in my grass and they hurt terribly if you step on one and they are also at the beach in the sand.

 

[FootballMom]

I'm from Florida (grew up on a farm) and lived in Orlando for a few years. I can't say that I have ever seen a cocklebur in my life but I have picked a billion or so sand-burs (we called them sandspurs) and beggarweed seeds off my clothes what seemed year round.... more so in the summer because back in those days the only entertainment for a kid was to go outside and play...

 

[FloridaKatz]

ok how do I post a pic? I just took 2 pics of what I'm talking about and want to show...

 

[FootballMom]

Maybe I'm calling them the wrong thing. They are brown in color, and they look like miniature round cactuses. My mother always called them cockleburs, but maybe they are called something else.

beggarweed seeds are green when they are young and then turn brown and seem like they are attached with superglue.... or if they were pointy they were maybe sandspurs which are mostly tanish but can be brown when they get older...

 

[impatientredhead]

The dreaded Florida State weed=hitch hikers!
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Not that we don't enjoy a decent cocklebur every now and again.:crazy:

ahhh, maybe this is why I have never heard of a cocklebur, this isn't what I was talking about. The ones we have look like a teeny tiny very densely packed tumbleweed.

 

[FootballMom]

The dreaded Florida State weed=hitch hikers!
View attachment 1015

Not that we don't enjoy a decent cocklebur every now and again.:crazy:

yep! those are beggarweed seeds!!! hate them hate them hate them!!!

 

[Chat Noir]

If there were cockleburs on her clothing, we shouldn't hold our breath waiting for CA to devulge this information.......just like the hairbrush IMO....

 

[donnam]

I'm from Florida (grew up on a farm) and lived in Orlando for a few years. I can't say that I have ever seen a cocklebur in my life but I have picked a billion or so sand-burs (we called them sandspurs) and beggarweed seeds off my clothes what seemed year round.... more so in the summer because back in those days the only entertainment for a kid was to go outside and play...

These are what we have in Jersey. I am allergic to them too LOL
I hate them.

 

[impatientredhead]

These are what we have in Jersey. I am allergic to them too LOL
I hate them.

that is what we have too, now I know what to call them instead of the derogatory terms I use for them currently

 

[beckaroozie]

Maybe I'm calling them the wrong thing. They are brown in color, and they look like miniature round cactuses. My mother always called them cockleburs, but maybe they are called something else.

Sounds like cockleburs to me!! Spiky lil tumbleweed thingys that have like barbs on the end and get hooked on everything!!