Wow, Weird, and 100% true......"Mysterious explosion injures woman on Rhode Island beach"

[Logical]

A Connecticut woman is recovering from fractured ribs suffered during an unexplained explosion on a Rhode Island beach over the weekend.

Sixty-year-old Kathleen Danise’s family says she has vacationed at Salty Brine beach in Narragansett, Rhode Island, for 30 years, and had experienced no problems there until Saturday.

The family says she was thrown 10ft in to rock breakwater during the explosion near her beach chair. Her sister and her daughter’s fiance told reporters that Danise suffered two fractured ribs and bruising. She was released from the hospital on Sunday and returned to her home in Waterbury.

The beach was reopened Sunday after officials found no evidence of an explosive device or gas line under the sand and declared the beach safe.

The state fire marshal’s office continues to investigate.

More Links:

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/13/rhode-island-beach-explosion-woman-injured

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/womans-ribs-fractured-in-unexplained-r-i-beach-explosion/

[MicaelS]

1. Meterorite is my guess. N/T

[Logical]

2. Hmmm, wouldn't it leave a hole or something. nt

[snooper2]

16. no, when they hit humans they dissipate at the rate of 478 microns per millisecond

[Agschmid]

3. Odd.

[Maedhros]

4. Occam's Razor says they missed the evidence.

Explosion on a beach just after July 4th? Fireworks probably are the cause.

[Art_from_Ark]

9. How many fireworks can send a grown woman hurling on a 10-foot trajectory?

And without leaving a trace at that?

[jberryhill]

11. UXB in dredge sand

Happens all of the time:

http://articles.latimes.com/1997/dec/14/news/mn-63980
Navy Under Fire for San Diego Dredging Snafu
Military: What seemed like a win-win-win becomes a lose-lose-lose as ordnance turns up in sand being dumped on beaches.

http://articles.dailypress.com/1990-08-27/news/9008270112_1_shells-metal-detectors-dredging
More Artillery Shells Found On Buckroe

http://www.ocsentinel.com/news/mm-artillery-shell-found-on-beach-caught-by-dredging-safeguard/article_26c38e6e-efc0-5128-a6dd-0d9e7de01b97.html
A World War II era 20-millimeter artillery shell was found on the Ocean City beach near Morningside Road and Beach Avenue on Sunday, Feb. 17, at 3 a.m.

[Maedhros]

14. Still, the simpler explanation is usually the right one. [n/t]

[Logical]

35. I agree with you but this thing has no easy answer so far. nt

[petronius]

6. It was obviously a time traveler attempting to re-materialize in a space

already occupied by a rock. Poor fellow - for his heirs' sake I hope he bought the 'simultaneous two objects one place all go boom' rider on his time travel insurance (ordinary TT policies don't cover that)...

[fadedrose]

32. Obviously

the poor woman is fortunate that he didn't take her with him...I wonder if he was coming from the past or the future.

[fadedrose]

33. Forgot to add that it was an invisible TT machine.

that's important and you did not mention it. It didn't blow up, it just took off again.

[PoliticAverse]

7. Considering the closeness to July 4th I'd also consider some type of firework involvement. n/t

[former9thward]

18. What fireworks send a woman flying 10 feet in the air

and leaves absolutely no trace?

[PoliticAverse]

20. I'm not sure I believe all the details. n/t

[yourout]

8. Someone had some pretty powerfull baked beans.

[jberryhill]

10. Old ordnance is in a lot of dredge sand

It turns up relatively frequently in a lot of places on the east coast

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Ammo-Parts-Beach-New-Jersey-Allenhurst-Loch-Arbour-Sand-Dredge-Memorial-Day-303462591.html

A beach replenishment project has pumped battery-sized components of World War I-era ammunition onto some New Jersey beaches, and officials are warning people who find them to alert authorities.

More than 90 boosters for howitzer projectiles, the size of a C battery, have been found in Allenhurst and Loch Arbour on the central New Jersey shore, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers told the Asbury Park Press.

The discovery marks the first time munition parts have ended up on the beach since the corps added a screen process to its sand dredging projects in 2007. That was when more than 1,000 pieces of unexploded ordnance were found in Surf City after a beach replenishment project.

As noted above, the fact that unknown persons of unknown expertise didn't find evidence of an explosive device is pretty meaningless.

[Maedhros]

15. This makes a lot of sense.[n/t]

[former9thward]

17. They had the bomb squad investigate the whole scene.

Hardly "unknown persons of unknown expertise." They found nothing.

[Logical]

25. That would of left some evidence. nt

[jberryhill]

26. Absence of evidence...

Yes, it would have.

It is also a beach. Whether a sliver of rusty metal buried in the sand or in the wash would be recognized as such evidence depends on whatever other debris is common to that spot.

A spontaneous combustion of methane from something rotting would also leave evidence.

[randome]

12. Swamp gas.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]“If you're not committed to anything, you're just taking up space.”
Gregory Peck, Mirage (1965)[/center][/font][hr]

[TreasonousBastard]

13. This is why you don't light farts.

[Glassunion]

19. The Sharks, not satisfied with biting swimmers

have taken to trying to blow folks the f*ck up. This is a sign of desperate measures.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

21. It was only a matter of time.

[Glassunion]

22. I knew this photo would come in handy some day.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

23. Lol.

[Warren DeMontague]

24. Dont worry, the worlds most professional investigative journalists are on the case.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/google-bilderberg-infowars-crew-hits-on-reporter-while-getting-the-truth-on-rhode-island-explosion/

[Codeine]

27. It was a case of military-grade bullshit.

People lie.

[nadinbrzezinski]

28. I watched that story

it is wild. I also saw MSNBC (well local reporter) talk to the sister the next day. It is ... weird.

[Logical]

31. We seldom get to hear about something that is honestly unexplained. Intriguing! nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

34. Especially since the cops

looked at it, and nada. (The last time I checked it)

[pugetres]

29. Just saw the story on national news at my neighbors house.

People on the beach report rumbling under their feet like an earthquake before the explosion. Doesn't sound like an ordnance of any sort to me.

[Logical]

30. Hmmm, that sounds more reasonable. Like a high pressure gas from earth shift. nt