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The Force backfires
May 25, 2005 - 7:03AM
Two Star Wars fans were critically injured in the UK when they tried to replicate the light sabres used in the movie by filling glass fluorescent light tubes with fuel, police and a news report said today.
Mark Webb, 20, and an unidentified 17-year-old girl, were planning to make a video recording of a duel like those in the just-released blockbuster film Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, Britain's Press Association news agency said.
They were injured when one of the makeshift sabres exploded in the woods in Hemel Hempstead, north of London, yesterday evening.
Hertfordshire Police said a third person present when the explosion happened had been questioned. The two who were injured were in critical condition at a burns unit in Chelmsford, Essex.
"At this stage we are unable to confirm the exact circumstances, but glass tubes and traces of accelerant (flammable substance) were found at the scene," police said.
AP
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REF:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/The...950720606.html
Fucking hell.
I really,
really can't understand how someone can be so stupid as this. Honestly. How do these people tie their own shoe-laces in the morning?!
Cue references to the Darwin Awards and Jackass...
Mr Mephisto