As a kid, I used to have a whole shoe box of rocks I picked up here and there just because I thought they were cool.  "Oooh, this one's shiny!"  "Oooh, this one's smooth!"  "Oooh, this one might be an arrowhead!"  Good times.  Luckily, I managed to avoid rocks that were prone to spontaneous combustion; but the woman in this story wasn't so lucky.

So now even cool-lookin' rocks are dangerous?  To quote Aerosmith, "There's something wrong with the world today..."

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