Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Find that film!!!!!

From SkyNews and TheForce.net comes this lovely little tidbit:

LightSabre Scrap Horror (you have to love the British terseness and compression in that headline)

Two people have been left with severe burns after their home-made Star Wars light sabre exploded and showered them in petrol.

Mark Webb and Shelley Mandiville are thought to have filled a fluorescent tube with fuel to imitate the screen weapon.

But their clothing caught fire during the mock fight in woodland near Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, leaving Mr Webb with 40% burns.

Police said both he and Ms Mandiville, 17, were in a critical condition in hospital in Chelmsford, Essex.

A spokesman said fire crews called to the woodland found the pair on the ground.

Police think they had been filming themselves at the time.

One can only marvel at the sheer stupidity. I mean, I think I learned not to play with gasoline by the time I was 6, maybe 7, definitely by the age of 13. And then mixing it with some kind of powered neon tube?

It probably was a fantastic spectacle, better than the final duel.

~A

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