Star Wars Fans Hopsitalized After Lightsaber Accident

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Sky News reports on a tragic accident involving a couple of Star Wars fans:

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.

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When does the line between cinema and reality become a little too blurry?

 

You have to be kidding me!

 

this is what happens when stupid people are bored.

 

Laughing at someone's serious life and death situation, no matter how stupid, shows how immature some of you people are

 

Indeed it's not funny.

 

I'm not laughing at how they were hurt but in wonderment of what people do sometimes. So don't accuse me of anything.

 

You're entitled to whatever you want to think and so am I, and I think it's immature to laugh at people who are in terrible pain...No matter how foolish they were

 

I think the idea of creating the lightsaber was good... the idea of using petrol and a flourescent tube... well... not so good.

 

Please, please - let them have been video taping themselves, and oh please let this footage hit the internet. I enjoy watching stupid people doing dumb things to thin out the genetics pool.

 

Yes, that what I'm saying. The lightsaber Idea was brilliant what they used in it was not. And I'm not laughing at them because I do feel bad about what happened. I'm just suprised poeple do that.

 

No, it's quite all right to laugh at these idiots.

 

No, it isn't. True what they did was stupid but what if it happened to you?

 

yes, people do some pretty dumb things. I feel sorry for them, cause their parents will probably never let them wath SW again... one's 17 though, so they won't have that long of a wait.

 

True what they did was stupid but what if it happened to you?

Ah, but see - here's the key: this WOULDNT happen to me, because I'm smart enough to realize that

A) It's just a movie and lightsabers are not real.

B) Fire burns things, and fire hurts.

C) Loading a breakable glass tube up with gas, setting it on fire and then hitting each other with it is a BAD THING!

Thus, with my superior position on the evolutional scale, I can look down on these morons and laugh. If they were hit by a car, if they were struck by lightning - something outside of their control, then yeah, I would have sympathy for them. But being a stupid dumbass like this only invokes mocking from me.

 

that's not right, man. It's really not funny. Stupid... but not funny.

 

That's HILARIOUS!

"Okay, I'm gonna be Obi-Wan and you're gonna be Anakin."

"Dude, I'm on fire."

"No, not yet! Don't pretend to be in the lava until the end of the battle!"

"No, I mean dude, I'M ON FIRE!"

"What, what are you-- ah! I'm on fire too!"

 

Thinning the herd one jackass at a time.

 

You're really not funny... you know that, right?

 

I agree with Inferno. You're not funny, just sick and twisted.

 

You know - after some consideration, you guys are absolutely right. The act of hitting each other with flaming breakable sticks is not very funny at all. Pretty dull, actually. However the act of being amazingly, blindingly colossally stupid is much more worthy of mocking laughter.

 

You are disgusting you know that!

 

No, I didnt actually. Thanks for clearing that up.

 

Get a life. Find something better to do than make fun of other peoples' misfortune. You're sick and "What goesaround comes around." Don't be surprised when you're in need of help and all people are doing for you is laughing.

 

People like you are a disgrace to humAanity