Actually, I think the Chinese did it to us. Tumbleweed was crunched up and used as packing on shipments from China to the US West Coast back in the 1800's. Ditto Catalpa tree seeds. The story is that they fell through cracks in the crates as the boxes were transported east by railroad. Indeed, the thickest growths of Catalpa I know of are near the main railroad liness, though the stupid trees grow like weeds just about everywhere now.
Now that you mention it though, it just might be a Commie plot to undermine our railroad transportation system. Good thing that Washington D.C. isn't supporting the railroads at all, dooming them to fail in a decade or two. What do those Europeans know about how to travel anyhow? Everybody in these parts knows the best way to travel is by car, by themselves, using fuel up as quickly as possible as well as emitting as much polluting exhaust as the car's motor will allow.
But I digress.
Posted on Nov 24, 2003, 10:36 PM from IP address 207.106.226.87
