Natural Causes? Or Foul Play?

[blueapplesoda]

its a dart

[Jean]

you were out drifting weren't you ? j/k

[JGood]

At the garage I used to work out, someone left a 3/8", 3" long extension on the floor, and apparantly it was standing straight up.

It ended up straight through the tread of an 18" Chrylser 300C tire. That's 3/8" wide, and it just slipped right into the tire.

I think you probably hit a branch, and it got caught up in your axle/suspension and got forced into your tire. If a 3/8" extension went through the entire tread block, a stick can go through the sidewall.

[mikeedler]

I think it was african tribes men, and it is a poisoned blow dart, that missed you and ended up in your side wall.
side walls are a whole lot easier to puncture than the tread part, i would keep a lookout for those canibalistic tribes men!!

[Jscotty]

Not to sound like a CSI detective but... I am looking at this picture and I see marks on the sidewall consistent with someone running up against the edge of a curb so at first I concluded that a branch could have been up against a curb.. but then when I look closer and see a rectangularish looking mark around the entry point of the stick, it looks almost as if someone held a sharp instrument (like a nail) against the sidewall while hammering the hole and then went back and hammered the stick in its place.

[equate975]

Not to sound like a CSI detective but... I am looking at this picture and I see marks on the sidewall consistent with someone running up against the edge of a curb so at first I concluded that a branch could have been up against a curb.. but then when I look closer and see a rectangularish looking mark around the entry point of the stick, it looks almost as if someone held a sharp instrument (like a nail) against the sidewall while hammering the hole and then went back and hammered the stick in its place.

That was from rubbing, my rear struts were non-existent no fluid was left in them. They finally gave out when I had a load of 5 guys in my car.

I replaced them a week or so ago.

Also, I found it was a nail! I thought it was a little frozen branch, but after letting it thaw out in the garage I noticed a point on the end and it was a nail. Never the less though, somehow the head of the nail went in, not the pointy end. Probably natural causes I guess, still weird that it ended up in my sidewall though.