Originally Posted by
Leisesturm
You were extremely unlucky. A tire boot is not a patch. It is only to keep the innertube from compromising further a tire with a large hole or tear. It isn't meant to be puncture proof. But I don't know of anyone that has experienced a puncture at the exact same spot a boot happened to be. Multiple times? Dude, you need to get right with whatever higher authority your belief system acknowledges to be in charge of your journey through life ...
Have you ever seen a Park Tire boot? That patch I'm guessing is roughly a mm thick, and it's a waterproof vinyl membrane with fiber weave reinforcement (taken right from the Park site). This patch you can't tear with your hands, though you can cut it with scissors but it takes a more effort than cutting paper or a dollar bill or a candy wrapper, which both the dollar and the candy wrapper I can easily tear with my hands, and I can easily poke a needle through those but can't poke a needle at all with the patch. So sorry, if I had a choice between using a Park boot patch and a dollar bill or a candy wrapper I would use the boot...now of course if I didn't have a boot well then yes I would use one of those others.
I once tore a tire so bad, a Conti tire where the sidewall got torn about an inch which blew the tube of course, I had to stuff the tire with weeds, I actually made it home that way!