Liar, liar...

NSFW ads at the bottom there, subby.

/true, everyone on the planet has seen Madonna's boobs by now, but still

Did Apple patent this?

_{/smells a lawsuit}

What she didn't mention is the iPod that was also in her pocket.

I think she should contact a certain Dr. Jones about those rocks. He's been looking for them on behalf of a poor Indian village.

I'm gonna laugh when this turns out to be Uranium Oxide and something else that made for a more-than-mere-chemical reaction... expect to be hearing about her getting buried in a lead coffin soon.

But was she hot? Oh wait...

The Third Man: NSFW ads at the bottom there, subby.

/true, everyone on the planet has seen Madonna's boobs by now, but still

She was awfully damned sexy twenty years ago.

Assimilate This: But was she hot? Oh wait...

Dude, she was smokin'!

Phosphorus.

/book it.
// done.

San Diego. You mean the place that's right next to a whole lot of Navy stuff including someplace where they routinely teach a whole bunch of guys to practice doing demo underwater? That San Diego?

Nope. Nothing going into the ocean anywhere near there. Ever. No sirree, bob.

thespindrifter: I'm gonna laugh when this turns out to be Uranium Oxide and something else that made for a more-than-mere-chemical reaction... expect to be hearing about her getting buried in a lead coffin soon.

Yes, that would be so hilarious if a woman on a beach were to be killed by uranium! Haha!

/too many sociopaths on interwebs

Seriously, nothing I know of that gets used for anything looks anything like any of that, but there's a whole lot of Navy stuff nearby and the Navy has a whole lot of stuff that goes boom.

So maybe there's natural stuff. Maybe there's stuff that's been dropped in the ocean over the last forever or so that's washed up. Who the fark knows?

Is that a hot rock in your pocket or are you...oh wait

Is that a piece of Kryptonite?

neutronstar:

Yes, she must have spilled Coke on herself, which of course would cause a pop rock explosion.

It is also possible that the rocks contained baking soda, and she had some sort of vinegar related accident.

Am I the only one who immediately thought of balls when I saw the headline? "stones in your pocket" etc, and then the Tresles Beach looking like "testicles"?

Mind is in the gutter, I guess.

Did anyone bother to run a geiger counter over her or the rocks?

danielscissorhands:

Yes, that would be so hilarious if a woman on a beach were to be killed by uranium! Haha!

/too many sociopaths on interwebs


Lighten up, Francis.

danielscissorhands: Yes, that would be so hilarious if a woman on a beach were to be killed by uranium! Haha!

Hey, if it was good enough for Marie Curie, it's good enough for us all!

/Yes, I know hers was Radium, but still... "hot" rocks just the same.
//Did you know most fossils are at least a little radioactive, and some in South Florida are *really* radioactive? I really need to keep my collection wrapped in paper.

Personally, I think it would be cool as f*ck to see it happen to someone else...though I'd pretend to be empathetic since that's what's expected of me.

pag1107: If it were uranium going critical in her pocket like you suggest, the energy released would have done more than smoulder a hole and give 2nd degree burns. I'd be very suspicious of phosphorus.

Eh, I was kidding anyway. Uranium Oxide is more yellow than orange. If it really had been a subcritical reaction, she'd already be mostly dead, and all the first-responders would be puking and waiting their turn to die.

Captain Marc Stone??

Seems they have the right guy on the job then

Otto_von_Prawn: danielscissorhands:

Yes, that would be so hilarious if a woman on a beach were to be killed by uranium! Haha!

/too many sociopaths on interwebs


Lighten up, Francis.

...It's just that my mother was killed in a horrific uranium rock accident.

I thought you were supposed to fire up your rocks in a pipe? She was doing it wrong.

That phosphorus is one hell of a rock!

Sounds like something that could happen in Eureka, OR.

Coincidence that San Onofre Nuclear Power plant is walking distance from trestles?

I'm very,very curious about this, because I was on the beach in San Clemente
for a while yesterday. didn't put any pretty,pretty rocks in my pocket tho....

"Heat my shorts"

/gets the reference

Back in Ye Olde Dayes, when you had to sneak past the Marine guards to surf at Trestles, there was always crap lying around from training exercises. It was a rare day when you didn't find a canister or two from the smoke grenades they used to mark landing beaches. Wouldn't be surprised if she picked up something that been lying around for ages.

Too bad "Trail 6" was closed years ago.

/Dora lives

So much fail.

"Phosphorus"/"phosphorite" -- sorry, no. "Naturally occurring phosphorus" is always in the form of phosphate, which is already as burned as it's ever going to get. White or yellow phosphorus, the kind that spontaneously ignites in air, doesn't occur in nature on Earth's surface -- because if it ever had, it would have, you know, spontaneously ignited. It exists as an industrial material, but it doesn't look like that, and it wouldn't have been lying uncombusted on the beach.

Uranium/radium? Nope, sorry. Doesn't smoke. And if by chance these folks had come across something that hot, they wouldn't have been noticing the pretty orange and green colors, they would've been noticing the pretty blue glow, and that the stones were hot to the touch when they first picked them up. And then they would've thrown up and died.

"Burning rocks" makes me think calcium carbide, but I'm stumped as to how they'd lie on a beach without fizzing up and going away. And carbide lumps don't look like that, and they stink to high heaven when they're reacting with water.

Wish I could find out how this turns out. I'd lean toward "hoax", but I can't for the life of me figure out the motivation.

Hot Pockets? Perhaps Japan's meltdown coming onshore? Why didn't she just remove her shorts? Another good reason for nude beaches?If it had been her husband would he have sung Goodness!Gracious! Great Balls,Afire!?
Too many questions without more caffine.

mmm...jalama rocks

jfarkinB: Wish I could find out how this turns out. I'd lean toward "hoax", but I can't for the life of me figure out the motivation.

"Daily Mail: The Shiat Maker-Uppers" would be one possibility with good odds.

Someone prepared Explosive Runes, today.

something something rocks off