Home Made Star Wars Movie Injury 734
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.
can it be (Score:1, Funny)
/me force chokes
Yay, validation! :P (Score:5, Funny)
>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*
By now obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
someone had to do it.
Yeah... (Score:5, Funny)
Are people really this stupid? (Score:5, Funny)
How did these guys make it this far into life?
And, lastly, where's the video?
A lesson to be learned for jedis and fans alike: (Score:5, Funny)
The mercury poisoning addled their brains first (Score:3, Funny)
Positive Side-Effect (Score:5, Funny)
[-4 Poor Taste]
Questioning Third person (Score:5, Funny)
"Police say a third person present at the incident was questioned."
Who found the cops' lack of faith disturbing...
Darwin Himself was there to witness it? (Score:5, Funny)
No doubt he was an elderly English gentleman, who had been encouraging our friends to try out their little experiment.
hmm (Score:5, Funny)
Ever in a slashdot post. (Score:1, Funny)
Who won the battle ? (Score:2, Funny)
Stupid Star Wars stunt, in the woods... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Glow Sticks (Score:5, Funny)
Of course it isn't. That's why you have to crack 'em.
Reply. (Score:1, Funny)
You didn't need a fire accident for that.
Fluorescent light tubes?! (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Slightly more information (Score:4, Funny)
Think of it as evolution in action.
Only in England (Score:2, Funny)
Darwin Award winners? (Score:4, Funny)
Hall of fame inductees!
This is worse than powering a powering a go-cart with a chainsaw (not a chainsaw engine, a chainsaw). Or any attempt to juggle objects meant to fell trees.
No, this couple gets a waiver straight into the Hall [darwinawards.com].
They deserve their own wing.
Re:Yay, validation! :P (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Are people really this stupid? (Score:4, Funny)
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 - He still thought it looked like a metal end to him.
The guy was in his 30's. I have NO idea how people like this make it through an average day.
I was wondering as well - where's the video?
Gotta be said... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Glow Sticks (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Darwin Award winners? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:WHAT???? (Score:2, Funny)
I suppose the humor could be deminished if they were forced to do it, or were doing it to save someones life, or because it was how they fed their family, but these people DID IT FOR RECREATION!
If these 2 live, and produce offspring, I will lose all faith in evolution.
Re:Are people really this stupid? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Slightly more information (Score:5, Funny)
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!"
Re:Darwin Himself was there to witness it? (Score:3, Funny)
Citizen, you have committed thoughtcrime! (Score:3, Funny)
Changing lightbulbs (Score:5, Funny)
A. It depends on the number of light bulbs and the amount of gasoline on hand.
Re:hmm (Score:5, Funny)
The farce, surely?
Re:Copy Cat'ing (Score:3, Funny)
Sorry, but I must have missed that penultimate scene in the final duel where Anakin switches his lightsaber for a fluorescent light bulb filled with flaming petrol.
Re:Yeah... (Score:2, Funny)
The petrol shot first.
Re:Slightly more information (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Fire!Fire!FIRE! (Score:2, Funny)
Probably on rotten.com.
(Doesn't the Darwin Award presuppose that one was in the gene pool in the first place?)
When there is glass and burning petrol (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Are people really this stupid? (Score:5, Funny)
I told her we were all out of them, not being mean, but knowing that if I said there is no such thing as clear paper plates I would have had to argue with her about it.
Re:Questioning Third person (Score:5, Funny)
More proof (Score:3, Funny)
call the lawyers (Score:3, Funny)
Well
Re:Are people really this stupid? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Our loonies fight with petrol-filled fluorescen (Score:2, Funny)
(Where national generalizations come into place is what the rest do with the idiots. Yes, we in the USA, make them our leaders.)
Re:Glow Sticks (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Are people really this stupid? (Score:5, Funny)
Should that be a blanket warning on anything with a fillable orifice?
Re:Glow Sticks (Score:5, Funny)
Does your son now grow 10 times his size and smashes shit when he gets angry?
Re:Are people really this stupid? (Score:5, Funny)
I can see it now!
Make a noise like this now! ZEWWEEWWEWWWEWW
Now, you do like this: SCCHHHHHHH! PSSSH!
Think Positive (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What is causing this idiocy in an English coupl (Score:2, Funny)
Master Yoda Says... (Score:5, Funny)
p
What about his friend (Score:5, Funny)
Around here "hey Yall watch this" Is usually follwed by "aww heck I can do that"
Re:Glow Sticks (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Are people really this stupid? (Score:1, Funny)
THE REAL QUESTION ISN'T ANSWERED. (Score:5, Funny)
Did anyone get pictures?
Re:Slightly more information (Score:3, Funny)
Really. Well, call me callous, but I think you deserve to die for using the terms dude and especially dudette. Okay, maybe not die, but a good flogging is certainly in order...
Re:Glow Sticks (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Positive Side-Effect (Score:3, Funny)
OH ANAKIN, SET ME ON FIRE JUST LIKE YOU DID BY THAT LAKE ON NABOO.
Re:Talk about doing it the hard way! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Glow Sticks (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Glow Sticks (Score:3, Funny)
Reminds me of when I... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Are people really this stupid? (Score:1, Funny)
Please think of the children!
Re:Slightly more information (Score:5, Funny)
Don't share it.
Re:Glow Sticks (Score:2, Funny)
They'd already be counting their settlement money from George Lucas.
Re:By now obligatory (Score:3, Funny)
Don't be a facilitator of stupidity, be a BOFH (Score:3, Funny)
Now she gets into arguments at family picnics because "the guy at the party store did too tell me there was such a thing"!
Re:Glow Sticks (Score:2, Funny)
I always buy it in bulk. It's way cheaper.
ObScotty (Score:5, Funny)
Haven't ye ever heard a' transparent aluminum, laddie?
A horrible tragedy.. (Score:5, Funny)
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
They Should Have Used Gasoline (Score:5, Funny)
English: If it was good enough fer Jesus, it's good enough fer you.
RP
Re:Are people really this stupid? (Score:4, Funny)
This should be a wake up call to the makers of Real Doll.
Re:Fluorescent light tubes?! (Score:3, Funny)
You guys (and girls) set the standard and us Brits can only hope to keep up. However I'm sure our next generation will raise the bar still further. 3 Daughters aged 12 14 16 all pregant. mother blames school [telegraph.co.uk]
We're doomed aren't we ?
Re:Are people really this stupid? (Score:3, Funny)
Well, not unless you're the freakin' Red Army and trying to take out a Panzer, you don't.
Too bad for the guy though. I mean, I heard he'll get prosthetic limbs and be breathing through a respirator the rest of his life. He's more machine now than man.
Re:Slightly more information (Score:2, Funny)
Northern Fairy Tales: "Once upon a time..." (Or, to keep this barely on topic, A long time ago...)
Southern Fairy Tales: "Y'all ain't gonna belive this sheit..."
And, yes, IAAS(southerner)!
REPOST! (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Glow Sticks (Score:5, Funny)
especially when they specifically ordered inflammable petrol and he gave them flammable stuff instead.
Re:Glow Sticks (Score:1, Funny)
I cracked open a couple of sticks and spread the inside all over my face and arms - so I would glow in the dark
It looked cool... but damn did it sting when it got in my eyes ;
true Star Wars fan (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Glow Sticks (Score:1, Funny)
So Jerry Pournelle was with him?
A litmus test. (Score:3, Funny)
It's saved me from many a stupid act.
--grendel drago
Alternative ending (Score:2, Funny)
[igniting Luke's saber]
Darth Vader: I see you have constructed a new lightsaber. Your skills are complete, indeed you are powerful as the Emperor has foreseen.
Luke Flamethrower: It's the new petrol powered model. Here, give it a shot.
*whoosh*
Re:Glow Sticks (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Glow Sticks (Score:3, Funny)
Funniest Bush troll ever.
Re:They Should Have Used Gasoline (Score:1, Funny)
English: If it was good enough fer Jesus, it's good enough fer you.
What I don't get is how they name their whole country after our language and they still don't talk right.
And so you see Evil will always triumph over good (Score:4, Funny)
Re:By now obligatory (Score:3, Funny)
"A light-saber. More elegant than a clumsy blaster, a weapon from a more civilized e- OH SHIT IT'S ON FIRE!!! PUT IT OUT, PUT IT OUT AAAAGGH I'M ON FIRE AAAAAHHHHH!!!!"