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You probably have no idea how bad it really is...when I raced in off road desert races we had to think of spectators as cacti with T-shirts, or we would have been crawling at times. It made me SOOOO nervous that I might wreck into a crowd. Fortunately I always wrecked safely with only me getting hurt!

Grumpy cat would have no problem "playing" with a number of things. Chainsaws, caltrops, cacti,... The list goes on.

Probably picked one of the endangered cacti, too.

I read this book in 1996 and fell in love with it. In 97' I got out of the military and was working at a psych hospital in northern AZ. Me and my wife decided to drive to Vegas. When we got onto the freeway I noticed this paper sign with "Fear and Loathing" printed on it. It had an arrow pointing in the direction we were driving. We got onto the highway and kept passing up these fake cacti. I told my wife "those look like the artwork from the book!" We passed up the production crew at one point. It was just strange being a huge fan of HST and driving right threw all of this scene on my own way to Vegas.

I know we'd really like to believe this but I can't find anything about this on any serious website, and I think if it was real, there would be more news on it.
Upon looking, while I did find many sites picking up the story using the exact same article as every other one, I did come across this one site and article. It's the only one I could find that clearly states this truly is a hoax and I couldn't find any information backing up a hoax confession by David Salmanin so I guess it's still open to personal interpretation:

"On April 1st a story broke that a botanist had discovered an incredible species that appeared to have come from an extraterrestrial source. The new species not only had the characteristics of a more traditional form of cactus, but also a few others that led one botanist to believe it was from outer space. Of course when he said he first discovered the plant in Roswell, New Mexico from a meteorite the paranormal community was already beginning to get skeptical. But all lingering doubts were removed with the prankster came clean shortly afterward and said his cactus story had been a big prank to raise awareness of cacti.

David Salman, of High County Gardens first developed the prank to air footage of a known terrestrial species of alien cactus as a more deliberate and unusual brand of alien invader which he named Ariocarpus extraterrestrialensis. Ariocarpus was chosen as the creatures did resemble a terrestrial form of cactus species going by that name, and extraterrestrialensisafter his belief that the strange plants had actually originated among the stars. But thins have been quickly developed into a far more elaborate prank than Salman likely had hoped for as a good natured bit of fun. And when your life's work includes studying cacti in the desert, you're familiar with your work resulting in a few jabs. Luckily, however, Salman was able to come clean long before the story got too out of control." - http://www.unexplainable.net/UFO-Alien/Alien-Cactus-Story-an-April-Spoof.shtml

Oh man this is an awesome clip.

BTW, water can be manipulated with electric fields; at >10 Tesla you can make it levitate. Since magneto is constantly lifting huge metal-ish things, it makes some sense that he'd also be able to lift people, pointy-animals, cacti, sewer-water, etc., and fling them at enemies.

... most of the time artists under a deadline just pulled superhero ideas out of their ass, often with random limitations or 'kryptonites', and if it worked they ran with it.


(... here's a random citation, because why not)

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I have to say I'm loving the oul Bulletstorm. Playing it till 9am this morning, endlessly kicking people into man-eating plants or onto cacti(?). Anyway, great fun and thats been missing from the endless line of modern warfare type shooters.

I know one or two people that may have cacti up their asses. And they needed two people to do this?

hehe my bid is five. five cacti

(all links are to Erowid, a very informative non-profit educational site on drugs)

The *drugs I use most are coffee, marijuana, alcohol, benzodiazepines (valium, xanax etc.), in frequency of use respectively.

The drugs that have given me the most profound experiences are:
Salvia (legal), LSD, MDMA (XTC), DPT, 2c-i/2c-e, psilocybin mushrooms. I have tried nitrous (N2O)(legal) in combination with all except for Salvia and DPT and let me tell you that nitrous boosts them to a whole new, though sadly very fleeting, level for a few minutes.

I really want to have a good mescaline experience. But my last attempts at consuming the most horrid, bitter, slimy, and vomit inducing cactus goop only yielded threshold experiences. I really need to do an extraction on cactus and get some crystal mescaline for a measured and less yucky dose.

Another drug I really want to try is DMT or ayahuasca. Ayahuasca, though also reportedly horribly disgusting, is easily made out of legal plants and DMT can be extracted from them.

Yes I consider myself quite a psychonaut. I do thoroughly research these drugs before use and consider myself a responsible drug user. I only use these psychedelics very infrequently, like once every 3 months or so. They are quite self limiting.