I can relate to that story, a few year's back @ the Firestone store, they displayed all 4 tires that the woman who was a victim of a massive nail dumping on the road. Bear in mind the tires didn't go flat on her as she drove the car into the tire store. But there were so many nails in the tires that pulling each one out would've taken forever and there was no guarantee that patching the holes or even plugging them that the tires would've been serviceable. I had never seen so many nails in all 4 tires in my entire life, it was like a whole box of them had been dumped and spread over the roadway.

Yep, any of these rural southern towns, high concentrations of construction people. Back in the early 90's, I worked for a guy that sub contracted for Sears as a vinyl siding worker. We had to pull all kinds of nailed materials off the sides of houses in Jax, FL and load it into a flatbed trailer to take to the dump. I don't doubt some of that somehow made it onto the roads. I'm not built for siding and roofing work, it takes a special individual to do that kind of work on a day to day basis for a living.