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Posted on 05/18/2012 12:58:36 PM PDT by shove_it
A California mother is recovering from second- and third-degree burns after colored rocks her family collected from a southern California beach unexpectedly caught fire while in her shorts pocket.
"We were talking about who was going to pick up the babysitter," Lyn Hiner said today on "Good Morning America." "And all of a sudden something hot on my leg just sort of started to bother me so I started thinking it was a bug bite, so I started slapping it and the next thing I know my pants were on fire."
The harmless-looking, green- and orange-colored rocks, which Hiner's daughters found Saturday on San Onofre State Beach in southern California, are now the subject of an intense scientific investigation.
Hiner, 43, had put the rocks in her pocket after they left the beach. As she and her husband, Rob Hiner, were preparing to go out later that evening, the rocks suddenly erupted in her pants.
Rob Hiner, who appeared on "GMA" alongside his wife at the Santa Ana, Calif., burn center where she is being treated, said the couple had no idea what was happening.
"It was just this bright intense flame," he said. "We didn't know what it was. Our first response was just to try to pat it out.
"But, In trying to pat it out, it wasn't going out so the next thing was just to try and drop and roll and eventually we just tried to tear her shorts off and got them off of her," he said.
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It was a new day yesterday but it’s an old day, now.
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Obviously, I love that meme generator site...LOL
Those ancient aliens were quite advanced compared to these modern aliens, who are only into anal probing. Probably the result of 30,000 years of don’t ask, don’t tell.
The libs will blame it on the nearby San Onofre nuclear power plant.
Cue Bob Seger
Here comes old Rosie she’s looking mighty fine
Here comes hot Nancy she’s steppin’ right on time
There go the street lights bringin on the night
Here come the men faces hidden from the light
All through the shadows they come and they go
With only one thing in common
They got the fire down below
That’s why I included it as the punch-line.
Laz...you’re a pig!
Or the Marines.
“Jack Russel Terriers only go back as far as the mid 1800’s “
Or so they would have you ~believe~.
8^O
/cue omninous music
White phosphorus burns when exposed to water that’s what makes it such a fun military tool.
San Onofre State Beach.....
OMG, that’s why the pipes were corroding,
the ancient aliens planted magic crystals
there to warn of Nuclear activity!!!
And sadly, that is my very best quality.
Good doggie! Good doggie!
Laz, you’ve never needed igneous rocks to set the ladies’ shorts afire.
It doesn't burn when exposed, it's just that if burning, water won't extinguish it.
Many years ago, the chemistry teacher kept some in a jar of mineral oil, which then got pocketed by some crummy kid. This crummy kid then took the jar to high school hockey games. The jar could be kept in one’s pocket, and a tiny piece flicked like a booger onto the rink, where it would sit, then start to sputter, then dance and billow flame and steam.
The refs would whistle a stop to the action, they’d come over to where the commotion was, the crowd would roar, and pretty soon the sample was consumed, no evidence, and as long as the crummy kid was careful, no chance he was going to get caught.
One sad day, it was all gone and the fun was over.
Wonder whatever happened to that crummy kid?
I despise Jack Russel terriers.
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