I have seen a few of those...
Thinking on the tube failure you just got a bad tube too. I about 10 yrs ago I got two bad tubes at the same time from a local tire shop for my tractor. They were dry rotted. I return to the store and their stock of that size were all bad except two new tubes they just got in. They were exchanged without question. Frustrating but it does happens when someone forget to rotate the stock which why I date my for the received in stock time so I always pull the oldest ones first, Plus only keep a couple of each of the most used size. Now I do buy the 15's in lots of ten as I go thru them quite regularly.
And BGS it not rose thorns that get most tire and tubes here but those dang Bradford pear tree thorns. Their roots also take out a lot blades. I install 2 tubes and within a month both had to be patched. Tubes are no match for 1" thorns. These Bradford's are more trouble than they worth to home owners but good for the repair business.
The local electric company wanted to cut back mine by 2/3 and I ask if they could just remove them completely. They volunteer to do at no cost to me and they took out 24 of them. No more having to clean up down limbs every week but I do miss their shade.
The truest measure of society is the how it treats its elderly, its pets, and its prisoners.