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Home Made Star Wars Movie Injury
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.
>If they don't survive they must be Future Darwin Award winners.
Oh that would be so cool. Finally, the Star Wars fandom community recognized by a mainstream award!
*crosses fingers*
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!
someone had to do it.
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The force was strong with that petrol.
I feel bad for these guys and their injuries, but do people NOT know that you don't light glass tubes of gasoline on fire?
How did these guys make it this far into life?
And, lastly, where's the video?
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Mess with the force, and you're bound to get burned.
- Mad, ingenous - they've both left you puzzled -
Now they won't need make-up for Anakin's "Burn" scene.
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I might know what I'm talkin' about, but then again, this is Slashdot...
"Police say a third person present at the incident was questioned."
Who found the cops' lack of faith disturbing...
No doubt he was an elderly English gentleman, who had been encouraging our friends to try out their little experiment.
Reality has a liberal bias
the dumb is strong in these two...
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I guess the force just isn't that strong with them. :)
Of course it isn't. That's why you have to crack 'em.
Guy asked me for a quarter for a cup of coffee. So I bit him.
OK, sure, I've had some fun with pyrotechnics. My father -- being a machinist -- had welding equipment, so he and I would fill balloons with mapp gas and oxygen and would shoot them with burning bolts from a home-made crossbow. Good times. Not to mention my blacksmith uncle who would, on the fourth of july, take a special anvil he'd hollowed out the bottom of and fill the hollow with gunpowder. You can imagine the fun. Again, good times.
But, come on. Fluorescent light tubes?! You would have to be some sort of catastrophically stupid person to not realize how fragile those tubes are. I mean, for christ's sake! Filling a fragile glass tube with a burning liquid and then hitting things with it! Oh my god. If you *have* to do this, and obviously, you do because it's cool and fun, at least put some thought behind the mechanics.
The only thing I can really think about all this is that, somewhere, modern culture isn't teaching people important, basic, rules about material properties.
On a side note, I previously associated this kind of behavior with my fellow Americans. We're a stupid, raucous bunch. I'm glad to open my arms to the UK, I welcome you to our stupid bosom. May you whittle your gene pool alongside us.
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That should justify cheap cracks.
Think of it as evolution in action.
Use the Extinguisher Luke...
--What's this sig thing all about then? Should I have one?
Why not just pack the tubes with radioactive material and heavy water? Or Radium and Zinc Sulfide for that retro-look Undark glow? (Risk doesn't seem to be a problem for them.)
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Shouldn't that be "Hall of Flame"?
Faith: n. -- That human impulse that drives them to steal appliances when the power goes out
And I don't think a dude and a dudette deserve to die because they used an astonishingly-ill-designed fake lightsabre.
.. you might want to sit and think about it a little while.
.. I run!
Deserve has nothing to do with it. This is natures way of adding a little chlorine to the gene pool. People should realize anytime that someone says "Hey, this would be awesome!"
I'm from the southern US, and anytime I hear the words "Hey ya'll watch this!"
The Technomancer
"Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active."-
Q. How many Star Wars fans does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A. It depends on the number of light bulbs and the amount of gasoline on hand.
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I'm from the southern US, and anytime I hear the words "Hey ya'll watch this!" .. I run!
That is the funniest thing I have read on slashdot for a LONG time!!! Most of my family is from the southern US, so I can openly laugh at this.
Is it commonly followed by a splash of chicken feathers, cool-whip, and weed-trimmer parts? Maybe that is just my family.
A fool and his eyebrows are soon parted.
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Last year on the 4th of July we were driving back from the fireworks. My son was chewing on a glow stick in the car. I warned him that they could break but being a kid he didn't listen. As soon as we stop at home I hear this 'eeewwwww' from the back and when he got out both his mouth and shirt were glowing. That was a Kodak moment.
As soon as we stop at home I hear this 'eeewwwww' from the back and when he got out both his mouth and shirt were glowing. That was a Kodak moment.
Does your son now grow 10 times his size and smashes shit when he gets angry?
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
"Lead to Darwin Awards, the path of stupidity does."
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In Korea, long hair is for old people!
Ah yes the famous lastwords of a redneck. But how many know the last words of his friend?
Around here "hey Yall watch this" Is usually follwed by "aww heck I can do that"
Did it look cool?
Did anyone get pictures?
Second sign of why you should ignore an overly-judgemental poster: Underwear is too tight to permit blood flow to the brain.
Third sign of why you should ignore an overly-judgemental poster: Making a big deal out of a really small incident.
Dude, either you don't have children, or you are one of those parents whose children do no wrong. You know the type, no matter what the child does, it's not their fault. These are the kids that grow up, start a war, and then never admit they screwed up.
I don't know what combination of alcohol and spare time brought that particular combination of things together, but I am certain that there is a story.
Don't share it.
"We don't know what we are doing, but we are doing it very carefully,..." Wherry, R.J. Personnel Psychology (1995)
The other day I was talking to someone that couldn't tell me whether the end on what ended up being his ethernet cord was metal or plastic. Even after he told me he could see the wires inside [...]
Haven't ye ever heard a' transparent aluminum, laddie?
That said..
Obi-Wan: The Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together. Though it does not make you flame retardent , ask vader
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
The problem, of course, is that they used petrol, whatever the hell that is. They should have used good ol' American gasoline.
English: If it was good enough fer Jesus, it's good enough fer you.
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In the US they could sue the manufactuer for selling flammable petrol.
especially when they specifically ordered inflammable petrol and he gave them flammable stuff instead.