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Calif. woman apparently burned by rocks in pocket
Associated Press ^
| May 17, 2012
Posted on 05/16/2012 11:33:31 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Usagi_yo
After some of the winter storms you can usually walk the area beaches and find some of their flotsam jetsam washed ashore. Things like MREs, Medical kits and the like. Just wait until that mass of stuff from Japan finally gets here.
To: Cheapskate
I think they’re called “cop rocks”- used by the police when they give you the third degree.
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posted on
05/17/2012 1:32:29 AM PDT
by
Krankor
To: Free ThinkerNY
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posted on
05/17/2012 1:52:26 AM PDT
by
Nooseman
(mutt)
To: Free ThinkerNY
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posted on
05/17/2012 1:57:06 AM PDT
by
Brandonmark
(2012: Our Hope IS Change!)
To: Usagi_yo
so you think it was just them mre warmers? at any rate you blame the military.
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posted on
05/17/2012 1:57:18 AM PDT
by
Nooseman
(mutt)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Are those rocks in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
ohhhhh hot damn! lol
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posted on
05/17/2012 1:58:34 AM PDT
by
mkjessup
(Romney is to conservatism what Helen Thomas is to a high fashion model walkway.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Methane hydrates form under the sea but I don’t think they would be stable enough to exit very long as pebbles on a beach. Perhaps dome caustic material dumped at sea came in on the tides.
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posted on
05/17/2012 2:52:54 AM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
(I like Obamacare because Granny signed the will and I need the cash)
To: dr_lew
Can you believe they ingest that stuff? Even when they know what it's made of?
They need a long stay at the funny farm, or a free lifetime supply.
Their lifetimes are not very long anyway.
Why jack up the cost with a black market? So they have to burn, loot, and pillage to get it?
Make it legal, cheap, and readily available, and the criminality to obtain it vanishes.
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posted on
05/17/2012 2:54:13 AM PDT
by
rawcatslyentist
("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
To: mkjessup
Boy, one sure hopes she could quickly get her rocks off.
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posted on
05/17/2012 3:12:07 AM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(The parallels of elected dictator Hugo Chavez & his incremental socialism--to Obama--is creepy!)
To: AmericanInTokyo
Hot Pants ... finally back in style!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorts
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posted on
05/17/2012 3:15:38 AM PDT
by
Kenny Bunk
(So, Scalia, Alito, Thomas, and Roberts can't figure out if Obama is a Natural Born Citizen?)
To: Free ThinkerNY
The key to the puzzle is that she found the "rocks" off San Clemente Beach, just north of Camp Pendleton. Chances are, she picked up crusted over felt wedges from a fired white phosphorus artillery round.
The felt wedges are soaked with white phosphorus and ignite when the round opens and they are exposed to air, producing the dense white smoke used for screening and marking targets. Felt wedges often crust over, sealing some of the remaining white phosphorus until some uninformed individual picks one up or steps on it (as I did once: set my boots on fire).
WP is nasty stuff and produced deep and painful burns. Have to be careful what you pick up near training bases.
To: Theoria
Mabe the rocks were escapees from a lava lamp.
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05/17/2012 3:19:29 AM PDT
by
Pecos
(In God we trust. All others - bring data.)
To: Nooseman
I don’t like the attitude of “so you blame the military”. No I don’t blame the military but there sure are plenty of reasons to be suspicious about it.
It’s innocent until proven guilty, not beyond suspicion until proven guilty.
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posted on
05/17/2012 3:29:29 AM PDT
by
Usagi_yo
To: TheBattman
White phosphorus will ignite when it dries out. As long as it is wet its fairly safe.
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posted on
05/17/2012 3:36:43 AM PDT
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
To: mkjessup
Awww...you beat me to it. LOL!
To: Free ThinkerNY
Rocks spontaneous combusting? ........ BS
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posted on
05/17/2012 3:50:44 AM PDT
by
wesagain
(The God (Elohim) of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is the One True GOD.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
In another story a man on the beach cooking hot dogs said some kids came along and stole the charcoal from his habachi.
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posted on
05/17/2012 4:10:34 AM PDT
by
Venturer
To: thecodont
When I first read this, I thought magnesium was involved (magnesium shavings used as kindling can burn very hot).nd sodium takes off if it hits moisture. Carbide and water = acetylene. I used to make hydrogen by putting aluminum foil in a container with water and lye - it generates a lot of heat. Lots of potential reactions to provide a combustible environment.
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posted on
05/17/2012 5:28:03 AM PDT
by
trebb
("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
To: Nooseman
Pocket rock -ets! Henri is not amused.
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posted on
05/17/2012 5:40:29 AM PDT
by
Roccus
To: Theoria
Are those the actual rocks in question in your picture?
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posted on
05/17/2012 8:31:29 AM PDT
by
battousai
(Conservatives are racist? YES, I hate stupid white liberals.)
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