Awful thorny bushes w/ no berries

[YurtGirl]

You have to be careful, but I've found rawhide gloves work alright, just grab 'em by the base and pull. Jupe prefers to cut them w/ loppers and then pull, but I like the challenge of the other way Plant versus woman.

Problem is though, we've pulled them all down now and there are about 100 babies coming up already! It seems like about 15 babes per annihilated plant. Criminy! Hoping that if we keep on it, keep pulling, their abominable root system will slowly wither away to nothing... Nice thing about the babies (if there is such a thing), their thorns aren't dominant at that stage, mostly just scary looking red hairs, so you can pull them with your bare hands. Carefully.