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Thu., June 30, 2011

Weed Eater Inventor, 85, RIP

Houston entrepreneur George Ballas poses with the original Weed Eater, in this October 1975 AP file photo. Ballas, best known for inventing the Weed Eater, died Saturday. He was 85. Story here. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle)

Question: Do you own a weed eater?

Posted June 30, 2011, 8:39 a.m.

By D.F. Oliveria

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