Possible Light Saber death

[threej_lc]

As for idiot news today:

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TWO Star Wars fans are in a critical condition in hospital after duelling with lightsabres made by filling fluorescent light tubes with petrol.

The pair - a man aged 20 and a girl of 17 - are believed to have been filming a mock fight when one of the devices exploded in woodland on Sunday.

They were rushed to West Herts Hospital before being transferred to the specialist burns unit at Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, in Essex.

Police say a third person present at the incident was questioned

 

[Dr.Colossus]

The article doesn’t explain what posessed them to fill the tubes with gasoline. Were they really that dumb to think they could make the blades glow by lighting fuel on fire?

 

[threej_lc]

From slashdot.com:

SaleNowOn writes “Rather than use expensive cgi techniques to make the light sabres glow for their home movie. This couple instead used fluorescent tubes filled with petrol. Which they then set alight. If they don’t survive they must be Future Darwin Award winners. It makes me proud to be British.” And me embarassed to be a Star Wars geek.

That’s the general concensus of what was going on.

Josh

 

[rlg94086]

threej_lc:

From slashdot.com:

SaleNowOn writes "Rather than use expensive cgi techniques to make the light sabres glow for their home movie. This couple instead used fluorescent tubes filled with petrol. Which they then set alight. If they don’t survive they must be Future Darwin Award winners. It makes me proud to be British." And me embarassed to be a Star Wars geek.

That’s the general concensus of what was going on.

Josh

Well they weren’t too bright, we’re they?

 

[Friar_David_O.Carm]

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rlg94086:

Well they weren’t too bright, we’re they?

Well maybe they were too bright?

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