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Star Wars fans burnt by petrol-filled 'light sabre'
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| 24/05/2005
Posted on 05/23/2005 6:07:59 PM PDT by TheOtherOne
Star Wars fans burnt by petrol-filled 'light sabre'
By Stewart Payne
(Filed: 24/05/2005)
A man of 20 and a girl aged 17 were engulfed in flames when a home-made Star Wars "light sabre" exploded and showered them with burning petrol.
Mark Webb and Shelley Mandiville are thought to have filled a fluorescent tube with fuel to imitate the weapons in the latest Star Wars film Revenge of the Sith, released at the weekend. But their clothing caught fire and Mr Webb suffered 40 per cent burns.
Firemen were called to woodland near Hemel Hempstead, Herts, on Sunday and found them on the ground. Police think they had been filming themselves.
Last night they were in a critical condition at a specialist burns unit at Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, Essex.
TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: darwin; darwinaward; lightsabre; ouch; starwars; starwarsnerds; stupid
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Possible Darwin candidate
To: TheOtherOne
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posted on
05/23/2005 6:09:40 PM PDT
by
scott7278
("Please disperse...there is nothing to see here.")
To: TheOtherOne
May the torch be with you.
3
posted on
05/23/2005 6:10:33 PM PDT
by
Uncledave
(I want blue fingers!!!)
To: TheOtherOne
Geeks on fire. BBQ Geek.
How come I don't care?
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posted on
05/23/2005 6:11:34 PM PDT
by
garyhope
To: TheOtherOne
To: TheOtherOne
Idiots! Even disregarding the stupidity of waving a glass tube filled with flammable hydrocarbons around, the phosphor coatings on the inside of fluorescent tubes are highly toxic!
6
posted on
05/23/2005 6:16:14 PM PDT
by
TXnMA
(ATTN, ACLU & NAACP: There's no constitutionally protected right to NOT be offended -- Shove It!)
I fail to understand why they filled a neon light tube with 'petrol'. What were they hoping to accomplish?
7
posted on
05/23/2005 6:16:41 PM PDT
by
the anti-liberal
(</liberal> It's time the left - left!!!)
To: TheOtherOne
Luke,I am your...ahhh,I'm on fire,you dumba#%...."Thanks for the post,I needed a laugh.
8
posted on
05/23/2005 6:18:22 PM PDT
by
mdittmar
(May God watch over those who serve,and have served, to keep us free.)
To: mdittmar
To: TheOtherOne
Man, I dunno. When I'm checkin' in at the Pearly Gates I sure don't St. Pete to look at me in disbelief and say "Drill, you idiot. You did WHAT?" It isn't a good start.
To: TheOtherOne
Stop breeding the runts. Darwin rules.
11
posted on
05/23/2005 6:32:30 PM PDT
by
Calusa
(Izzy lied 17 died.)
To: the anti-liberal
What were they hoping to accomplish? spontaneous combustion
12
posted on
05/23/2005 6:43:11 PM PDT
by
Rakkasan1
(The MRS wanted to go to an expensive place to eat so I took her to the gas station.)
To: TheOtherOne
Okay, we're filming. Don't you have the matches, Cliff?
To: TheOtherOne
And to think, when we were that age, all we tried to do was light our own farts.........
14
posted on
05/23/2005 6:59:04 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
(There's a little Snake Plissken in all of us. Welcome to the human race.)
To: Uncledave
15
posted on
05/23/2005 7:10:36 PM PDT
by
Rakkasan1
(The MRS wanted to go to an expensive place to eat so I took her to the gas station.)
To: TheOtherOne
Stupid is as stupid does.
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posted on
05/23/2005 8:41:12 PM PDT
by
Chewbacca
(My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and thats the way I like it!)
To: Viking2002
when we were that age, all we tried to do was light our own farts... I NEVER! Well, OK, only the one time.
You don't still have the negatives, do you?
To: TheOtherOne
These folks need some instruction on playing with fire!
18
posted on
05/23/2005 8:47:13 PM PDT
by
Delta 21
(MKC USCG -ret)
To: Delta 21
Now that boy is properly uniformed.
As for me, I am lucky I didn't blow myself up with a lysol can. And that was the 2nd time I had a lysol accident . . . the first one involved an axe!
To: the anti-liberal
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posted on
05/23/2005 9:20:41 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
(MARK: WHAT HAPPEN? FIREMAN: YOU NOT KNOW WHAT YOU DOING.)
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