Bob Noble, a former UPI wire editor who wants broadcasters to stop
referring to baubles and bangles as “JOOL-er-ee” instead of
“JOO-wel-ree” and ban the insidious “Smith’s Paint Store
is having THEIR (instead of its) semi-annual sale,” also wants
to toss this out:

In cases of rioting, it seems the stories invariably have the miscreants
throwing “rocks and bottles.” Take a walk down any
city street, and there may be an occasional bottle, but few rocks.
“Debris” would have probably sufficed.