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Mephisto2 05-24-2005 01:47 PM

How stupid can you be? May the farce be with you...
 
Quote:

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
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

stonegrody 05-24-2005 01:50 PM

They were making a movie. There has to be video of this somewhere! Oh please, please find it!!!

maleficent 05-24-2005 02:05 PM

Sometimes the gene pool really needs to be thinnned out...

Lebell 05-24-2005 02:18 PM

Yes, I read that.

I prefer to not think of it as gasoline, but rather as chlorine for the gene pool.

stevie667 05-24-2005 02:20 PM

Happened in Hemel, no wonder...

Still amusing.

TexanAvenger 05-24-2005 02:21 PM

I'm wondering if they happened to smell like another flammable liquid when this all went down...

My guess would lean toward 'yes.'

MSD 05-24-2005 03:05 PM

Broom handles and glow-in-the-dark paint work much better.

World's King 05-24-2005 03:07 PM

IT'S A FUCKING MOVIE.





Duh.

flat5 05-24-2005 03:09 PM

Very sad.
These people have to go through life with half a mind. Or so it looks like to me.
I hope they learn to be more carefull.

streak_56 05-24-2005 03:12 PM

I'm surprised I haven't done anything like that, I am basically the self proclaimed king of stupid....

CSflim 05-25-2005 04:19 AM

Desperately needs a video....

paulskinback 05-25-2005 04:57 AM

Apparently the Police have in custody the third person involved, and the videotape from the camera he was holding while filming them.

Yet somehow, in a TV interview last night, the police also said they were still trying to figure out what they were doing. hmmmm.... Maybe Chief Wiggum should watch the tape?

JustJess 05-25-2005 05:24 AM

Ha! Who says the ridiculously stupid aren't punished???

I don't wish them permanent damage (or not much, anyway), but I am SO glad they were immediately smacked down for this. Idiotas!

ObieX 05-25-2005 05:53 AM

This is demented on so many levels. Glass tubes for a sword fight isnt dumb enough.. lets fill them with fuel and LIGHT THEM ON FIRE. This way they wont just shatter, but they'll spray flaming liquid everywhere. Good times!

OFKU0 05-25-2005 08:34 AM

Guess they should have played it safe in the imaginary world of Dungeons and Dragons. Then they could have used super-duper swords that could turn kryptonite into water. Suppose they were just trying to keep it real.

Borgs 05-25-2005 10:18 AM

I blame the violent media for encouraging such violence :rolleyes:

I kind of feel bad for laughing at them, as they are both probably hurt badly, but at the same time....

Hardknock 05-25-2005 11:36 AM

Somebody please find that video!! :lol:

sapiens 05-25-2005 11:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hardknock
Somebody please find that video!! :lol:

Quote:

The two who were injured were in critical condition at a burns unit in Chelmsford, Essex.
Definitely a dumb move, but I don't want to see the video.

Manuel Hong 05-25-2005 02:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ObieX
This is demented on so many levels. Glass tubes for a sword fight isnt dumb enough.. lets fill them with fuel and LIGHT THEM ON FIRE. This way they wont just shatter, but they'll spray flaming liquid everywhere. Good times!

Laughed my ass off. Thanks for lightening my mood after the blog story...

Sweetpea 05-25-2005 02:59 PM

ohmy :D that is funny on many different levels....................

sweetpea

Cuatela 05-26-2005 10:39 AM

I don't fault them for trying to recreate the movie...but I do fault them for how they replicated the sabers. There's a much easier way: white broomsticks, then get a computer geek to add glow effect after the action was filmed. That's about how they do it in the movie anyway (except the lightsabers are specially made, not white broomsticks)

Lebell 05-26-2005 11:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OFKU0
Guess they should have played it safe in the imaginary world of Dungeons and Dragons. Then they could have used super-duper swords that could turn kryptonite into water. Suppose they were just trying to keep it real.

Bah!

If you want to keep it real, try this:

www.ifgs.com


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