Can a word in a sentence be the subject and the direct object?

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because I asked a question before in yahoo answers and people said this sentence, "The mountains were pelted with snow"--the mountains was the direct object as well as the subject

...but how can a word be both the subject and the direct object


here is the link to the question and responses:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ah6bXOhBs18dljQhrnyyC2Psy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20090206162701AAJCfaL
 
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