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Rocks That Burned OC Mother Covered in Phosphate
KTLA ^
| 4:05 p.m. PDT, May 31, 2012
| Sarah Welch
Posted on 06/01/2012 7:55:02 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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Rocks found on OC beach catch fire (KTLA News)
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posted on
06/01/2012 7:55:06 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
06/01/2012 8:00:47 AM PDT
by
ILS21R
(John Locke: When the social contract is broken, the people must revolt.)
To: BenLurkin
I question her veracity. After all, her pants were on fire.
To: BenLurkin
Phosphates? Or phosphorus? Is this another one of those 44mm semi-automatic revolver things that the idiot/badly ignorant journalists do?
/johnny
To: sportutegrl
Hadda break out the replacement keyboard, I snorted coffee all over the other one! LOL!
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posted on
06/01/2012 8:07:57 AM PDT
by
jagusafr
("Write in Palin and prepare for war...")
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
06/01/2012 8:08:43 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: BenLurkin
Had to be phosphorus.
Some forms ignite at around body temperature.
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posted on
06/01/2012 8:09:57 AM PDT
by
Vinnie
(A)
To: BenLurkin
Maybe piezoelectric quartz caused a little spark and ignited the fine lint in her pocket?
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posted on
06/01/2012 8:14:16 AM PDT
by
ZX12R
(FUBO GTFO 2012 !)
To: BenLurkin
*Sigh*.
White Phosphorus people: San Clemente is at the northern edge of Camp Pendleton. All sorts of miltary smoke projectiles use WP to make fluffy white Phosphorus pentoxide smoke. If it lands in water (i.e., ocean f'rinstance) it quenches the flame. When the "rock" comes out of the water and the crust cracks to allow oxygen to reach the WP, she starts burning.
I found a 25 pound WP bomb washed up on the beach a few mile south of San Clemente a few years ago (a Navy smoke float).
WP burns are not a all funny and I have see some horrific stuff during my career..
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posted on
06/01/2012 8:28:47 AM PDT
by
Chainmail
To: Chainmail
Thanks. It’s obviously not a natural phenomenon. I was wondering if some jerk had been fooling around with phosphorus on the beach. But your explanation makes more sense.
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posted on
06/01/2012 8:32:18 AM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: BenLurkin
OC
“Don’t call it that.” — Michael Bluth
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posted on
06/01/2012 8:34:31 AM PDT
by
samtheman
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2888480/posts?page=2#2)
To: sportutegrl
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posted on
06/01/2012 8:35:01 AM PDT
by
freedomlover
(Make sure you're in love - before you move in the heavy stuff)
To: sportutegrl
LOL REALLY loud. You win. No one has to post anything at FR today because you have won it all. In my grade school, the ultimate compliment for a witty saying or joke was, “Good one.” As a former member of the Osborn School eighth school, I say to you, “Good one.”
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posted on
06/01/2012 8:42:14 AM PDT
by
righttackle44
(I may not be much, but I raised a United States Marine.)
To: sportutegrl
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posted on
06/01/2012 8:56:43 AM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(We kneel to no prince but the Prince of Peace)
To: Cicero
I hope the jerk’s name wasn’t Achmed or Muhammad.
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posted on
06/01/2012 8:58:19 AM PDT
by
DManA
To: BenLurkin
Sorry, but this woman's shorts were not, nor have they EVER been, on fire...
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posted on
06/01/2012 9:29:08 AM PDT
by
Mich Patriot
(Today if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse. RReagan)
To: BenLurkin
Tomorrow headline: Police arrest OC mother for possession of dangerous substance
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posted on
06/01/2012 9:30:55 AM PDT
by
mykroar
(October race riots bring November martial law.)
To: sportutegrl
It’s the old Willy-Peter in the pocket scam.
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posted on
06/01/2012 9:36:41 AM PDT
by
Larry381
("Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.")
To: BenLurkin
My guess is there was a beach party the night before, someone threw some road flares on the fire, where there were rocks, someone else peed the fire out before the flares finished burning leaving melted flare goop on the rocks. The kids found the rocks covered with pretty flare goop, they dried out, mom ‘struck’ them in her pocket, and viola, chemistry.
To: mykroar
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posted on
06/01/2012 10:03:39 AM PDT
by
JRios1968
(I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
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