Combine Demolition Derby

Combine Demolition Derby

Snippet by © Jan Friedman 2012

Before being consigned to the scrap heap, aging farm combines belching their last are brought to the Combine Demolition Derby in the small farming community of Lind. Wheat threshers that are all threshed-out get patched together with baling wire and duct tape, then decorated for the beauty pageant that kicks off the event. The machines, which must be at least 25 years old and certified inoperable for harvest, are then paraded before the crowd with the owner of the 'most beautiful' combine getting a cash prize. Combat takes place in a dirt arena, the lumbering machines bashing feebly at one another until all but one are disabled and towed off the field in disgrace.

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The above is an excerpt from Jan Friedman's wonderful, Eccentric America. Read more from Eccentric America at Jan's website at www.eccentricamerica.com or take a look at Jan's latest offering, Eccentric California at www.eccentriccalifornia.net.

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