...Now with EXPLOOOOODING lightabers!!
The Force--let alone common sense--was definitely not with them.
Two British Star Wars fans sustained critical injuries after constructing their own lightsabers from fluorescent light tubes filled with liquid fuel.
According to British media reports, a 20-year-old man and his 17-year-old female friend were filming a mock duel in homage to Star Wars: Episode III--Revenge of the Sith, the latest chapter of George Lucas' record-breaking franchise.
The duo were reportedly emulating one of Sith's key battles, a lightsaber clash between Ewan McGregor's Obi-Wan Kenobi and Hayden Christensen's Anakin Skywalker.
The two Brits suffered severe burns when their homemade sabers exploded. The two had been videotaping their clash. They have been hospitalized at Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire since the accident Sunday.
Aside from fiery accidents, the Sith craze is being blamed on a string of robberies. In separate incidents in Illinois and Florida, dark side-inspired crooks wearing Darth Vader helmets are being sought by police on assault and robbery charges.
Liquid fuel. They used liquid fuel with an electric product.
Another head breeds with desk.
And their son is......
*HEADDESK* ><;;;;;
Man some people should be locked up in their room, never to see the light of day. Everyone always tries to recreate something they saw either on TV, movies or did in a videogame and end up either getting hurt, arrested, or dead. 
o_O
Some Star Wars people scare me...it's a story people! Try not to make it into real life...oi...
Liquid fuel? Don't these people read? You can make a light-up lightsabre quite easily with merely flourescent gas, and you certainly won't blow yourself up that way. Well, even if you do, you're not supposed to freaking DUEL with them. Sheesh.
They should have done what 99% of fan-filmakers do and just make wooden sabres and rotoscope the glow afterwards. These people are more than idiots: these are idiots that make Star Wars fans look like bigger idiots. And that a lot of idiot-ness.
I know what will be a good idea, lets get some fluroscent tubes, fill them with petrol and set alight.
Such stories make me so proud to be British.
Was I the only person who immediately thought "Darwin Award potential"?
DW
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Was I the only person who immediately thought "Darwin Award potential"?
I dont get it, are you saying that Darwin was stupid, because there is actually SOME truth to what he came up with...
The proble, is when you apply it to a larger scale, but evolution itself I can proove 100% is going on around you all the time...
The Darwin awards are based off Darwin's theory of "survival of the fittest". It's basically honoring (is that the right word?) people who did something so stupid they either died, or lost their ability to reproduce, thus ending the cycle of stupidity.
In which case, they're not eligible for the Darwin Awards, because it doesn't say anywhere in the article that they lost their naughties or died... from what I saw, anyway.
May the force be with you!
Heh, that made my day.
Ah well, I hope they learned their lessons. o.o
My bad - I should have said Honorary Darwin Awards. Though I wondered if they would actually survive their stupidity - all kudos to medical advances!
DW
Oooh. A fellow Darwin Award fan! *chaofive*
I saw the tape of Vader robbing a movie theater. XD
I heard about this. Some people make us people who can like Star Wars and just beat each other to death with the lightsaber toys you buy at WalMart instead of doing something crazy...
Haven't they heard of those horrible plastic lightsabres that glow in the dark?
Still, that's another couple of idiots off the streets.
You'd think they'd realise that liquid fuel is dangerous, and electricity is dangerous, and so they wouldn't be so stupid as to mix the two. But clearly, they are.
I wonder how many people have tried to make their own lightsabres...
