# Have you ever stepped on a 'goat's head'?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stepped-on-a-goats-head/758921>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 2, 2016, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stepped-on-a-goats-head/758921 "2016-07-02T15:10:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stepped-on-a-goats-head/758921/41 "2016-07-07T22:48:28Z")

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> [@ZipperJJ](#):
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> Holy cow, never even heard of 'em! I can’t imagine trying to avoid them as a barefoot kid, or keeping my dogs safe from them.

Which is why neither I nor anyone else ever went barefoot as a kid in West Texas. Honestly, I always scratched my head at stories of bygone days when kids did just that. I could never figure out how that worked. Even in our fenced-in backyard, we couldn’t rid ourselves of those things, and it was not uncommon for our dog to come limping up and us have to pull a sticker out of its paw.

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**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2016, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stepped-on-a-goats-head/758921/42 "2016-07-08T00:28:11Z")

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Probably never had shoes, and the soles of their feet toughened up.

I have seen kids here, play soccer, barefoot on asphalt.

I wouldn’t last 15 seconds.

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**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2016, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stepped-on-a-goats-head/758921/43 "2016-07-08T03:11:29Z")

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Definitely have. Never anything serious, I was always only walking and I reflexively pulled my weight off my foot before it penetrated. They’re usually darker in color were I live so I call them ‘death stars’…

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**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2016, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stepped-on-a-goats-head/758921/44 "2016-07-08T03:27:29Z")

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Oh, yeah. And ridden my bike through them. Central Valley. We used to call them puncture vine.

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