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Rocks Found on Beach Mysteriously Catch Fire in Woman's Pocket
Yahoo ^ | 18 May 2012 | CECILIA VEGA

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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To: shove_it

Pocket Rocket?


61 posted on 05/18/2012 1:47:48 PM PDT by dancusa (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. H.L Menkin)
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To: Larry Lucido

LOL


62 posted on 05/18/2012 1:47:48 PM PDT by Salamander (Holy muscle of love.....I got a muscle of love.)
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To: brivette

They probably aren’t terribly fond of you, either.


63 posted on 05/18/2012 1:49:24 PM PDT by Salamander (Holy muscle of love.....I got a muscle of love.)
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To: Salamander

You are so smart! I had never thought of that. :D


64 posted on 05/18/2012 1:49:36 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: Ditter

No one ever notices the really good secret agents.

LOL


65 posted on 05/18/2012 1:52:32 PM PDT by Salamander (Holy muscle of love.....I got a muscle of love.)
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To: biggerten
Wonder whatever happened to that crummy kid?

Probably posting on FR... :)

66 posted on 05/18/2012 1:54:23 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: Salamander

granted. my Mother owned one that yapped itself to extinction.


67 posted on 05/18/2012 1:54:48 PM PDT by brivette
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To: Salamander; shove_it; Larry Lucido


68 posted on 05/18/2012 1:54:59 PM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: shove_it

coal, or lignite can spontaneously combust.


69 posted on 05/18/2012 1:55:06 PM PDT by Eva
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To: Salamander

LOL!


70 posted on 05/18/2012 1:59:40 PM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 0bie don' t eat my dog!)
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To: shibumi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher%27s_stone


71 posted on 05/18/2012 2:01:27 PM PDT by Salamander (Holy muscle of love.....I got a muscle of love.)
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To: dangerdoc

Phosophorus burns when exposed to air. Water puts it out. Sodium burns when it touches water.


72 posted on 05/18/2012 2:06:39 PM PDT by NathanR
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To: Salamander
Who knew this frivolous post would turn into a chemistry and philosophy lesson?
73 posted on 05/18/2012 2:08:07 PM PDT by shove_it (just undo it)
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To: ColdOne

;]


74 posted on 05/18/2012 2:09:14 PM PDT by Salamander (Holy muscle of love.....I got a muscle of love.)
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To: Lazamataz

Okay, now that’s funny.

THanks for the belly laugh.


75 posted on 05/18/2012 2:17:00 PM PDT by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: StAntKnee

” Hot Rocks”


76 posted on 05/18/2012 2:18:37 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: Ditter

77 posted on 05/18/2012 2:20:07 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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To: shove_it
I FR searced it every which way and got nada.

Searches should be simple. Even one or two words. Find a word in the title that isn't likely to be in many titles but probably would be in a story about this. For example: rocks or pocket. Then search for them in the title.

Bingo, there they are.

But I am not a post nazi. I have missed many an original post since I can't read FR all day at work but was happy someone re-posted it later in the day.

78 posted on 05/18/2012 2:38:29 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: shove_it

Sounds like the fuel source of the infamous “ECAT”!


79 posted on 05/18/2012 2:45:00 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (There's a pill for just about everything ... except stupid!)
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To: Lazamataz

Leave it to you, Laz.


80 posted on 05/18/2012 3:02:10 PM PDT by Paved Paradise
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