TIL porcupines eat brake linings.

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TIL porcupines eat brake linings. - Lemmy.ca

Lemmy

That is not a phrase I expected to hear. Even as an Australian.

Given that they regularly eat the fuzz off of deer antlers* after they are shed, I am open to any odd dietary choices from porcupines.

*this odd porcupine factoid was of great amusement to one of our kids when they were of kindergarten age and liked to play the “guess what animal I am game.”

“Brake Linings” sounds weird. They’re eating Brake Lines in case anyone else has the same early morning fog as me.
I was wondering how they’d get to the brake linings aka pad/shoe material. They’re tenacious but there’s just not much room. Lines makes much more sense and is a lot more dangerous.
With their good set of Craftsman tools and accessories. See your local Crasftsman Tool Dealer!
I feel like porcupines would be more Dewalt.
“I swear, your honor, I didn’t cut his brake lines, it was the damn pork-u-pines!”

Protip: Crimp em, don’t cut them

-Totally not a porcupine

Funnily enough, porcupines are likely also responsible for why the remains of Gigantopithecus, the 10ft-tall orangutans that lived up until around the development of sapiens, have such sparse remains.

Bigfoot, c’est toi?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantopithecus

Gigantopithecus - Wikipedia

That was also my thought.

Mostly just picturing them careful disassembling the brakes to eat the pads