From the NY Times, Section B, p. 6, Jan 03, 1992:
Marsha Truckstop, Newer New York Times Science News Editor

"Today, traffic came to an abrupt halt as a motorist travelling over the Throgs Neck Bridge suddenly drove his car into the guard rail in what appeared to be New York’s first documented case of spontaneous combustion. Traffic was snarled for hours while police and medical examiners sifted through the wreckage for clues. An eyewitness, said, "Well, I didn’t see any flames; the driver just sorta, well, blew up!" The coroner was quoted as saying he was certain it was a spontaneous event, but remained baffled as to where all the popcorn husks came from.

"ALL THE HOLY WRIT WE TINT AND MISPRINT" PROVES QUITE INCLUSIVE

But there was much more to this news than the Times, already in a fit as how much space to give this hullabaloo, should print.

Police finally identified the brand of popcorn involved. But they are withholding the identification of the victim which they cannot make until he fully deflates. "That may take as long as a week," Bronx Borough Police Chief Carmine Langustera said "and until the next of kin are notified. It’s likely to be quite a blow to them."

The police traced the corn used in the product to animal feed. They are puzzled how this feed found its way onto supermarket shelves. The Irving S. Cobb laboratory of the University Of Iowa in Ames had developed a "High-Swill" dry corn. Mixed with 100 parts water it blows up to 50 times its size. If fed to pigs dry, they don’t have to be butchered before being shipped in pre-wrapped parts to local meat distributors. When "High-Swill" comes into contact with pork stomach juices, as did Hillary’s investment in their futures, it blasts right past (in this case Clintonesque papers like the Newer New York Times).

The victim who literally exploded on the Throgs Neck Bridge was eating the formula straight from an ordinary box bearing the name "Bazooka," used by Q&A Supermarkets, a Long Island chain with six stores. Police solved the puzzle when they pieced together reports of bird feathers, beaks, toenails, etc. strewed over a 10-mile swatch of Long Island’s North Shore. Apparently, the driver had been eating this bag of "High Swill" popcorn while driving, tossing handfuls onto the roadway, which birds ate.

Q&A management announced the immediate withdrawal of "the popcorn with a bang" from its shelves. "They will either be donated to homeless kitchens or put out on the day-old display," said Candy Chickadee, a company spokeswoman who refused to identify herself. Dr. H. C. Rogue, NYC Health Commissioner cautioned against undue alarm. "He needn’t worry," said Professor Halcyon J. Hasty, impeached federal judge and Florida Congressman and presently professor of family law and animal husbandry at the Iowa institution. "Anyone who swallows this corn couldn’t get close enough to pull an alarm."

Dr. Rogue said, "it’s kind of a peaceful way to go. You just float up into the stratosphere leaving behind largely the behind and clothes we used for identification. At that altitude oxygen becomes scarce and the rising body loses consciousness. Moments later it explodes in a big bang reminiscent of the birth of the universe