This incident was not Star Wars inspired at all. The guy involved is a friend of mine from a homegrown stunt group. Our groups hook up and film stunts together sometimes. The media saw the like-ness between the tube lights and the new Star Wars movie and labelled them 'Star Wars Fans'. I still find it kinda immature that so many people are laughing at this horroific event...
Maybe these newspaper cuttings will make more sense.
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I hope your friends are OK, but damn... are they stupid or what?
Fake "I wuz there" Boy troll alert.
Uh, yeah... These brain donors fill light tubes with gasoline & set them on fire, but we're the immature ones.
I laugh at your moronic attempt to pretend you know jack s**t.
Hey, Old Sarge: Come here with your folks, cuz we got a live one here!
Your friends are a gas.
Were they filming for "JACKASS"?
I'm laughing at the horrific stupidity of filling a thin toxic glass tube with accelerant and LIGHTING IT ON FIRE. Next time you want to try something like that, do us all a favor, just eat the glass and drink the fuel. Then should yourself in the head and fall into your own freshly dug grave.
Sheeeesh.