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.
two people are seriously injured (Score:0, Insightful)
It's in the Mirror... (Score:3, Insightful)
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Re:Stupid Star Wars stunt, in the woods... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Slightly more information (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Glow Sticks (Score:4, Insightful)
The original poster had the best idea. Filling clear plastic tubes with a phosphorescent solution would have given them all the effect they wanted, but without the inherent danger. Of course, Adobe After Effects would have been even cheaper and safer, but these guys were obviously amatuers.
Re:Slightly more information (Score:3, Insightful)
If you think your life is worth so little that you're willing to sacrifice it for a cheap stupid dangerous stunt instead of something as noble as helping out in Iraq then yes I AM GOING TO LAUGH MY ASS OFF AT YOU.
Re:WHAT???? (Score:2, Insightful)
Secondly, there is a bit of irony to be found in your statement about evolution. Irony, aside from the bit about having faith in a scientific theory.
The theory of evolution is that what doesn't kill the species only makes it stronger. Human beings are evolved to be risk-takers. As amazingly stupid as it was to set glass tubes filled with gasoline on fire and then swing them around, mankind never would have gotten anywhere at all if nobody ever did anything stupid and risky. It's also possible here that something in the genetic makeup of these petrol-sabre duelists makes them resistant to immolation, and so having them breed would both reinforce humankind's propensity for risk taking and also help make future generations more resistant to fire.
I know that what I've said here is a tad on the absurd side. I just wanted to point out that evolution doesn't breed antibiotic-resistant bacteria without bacteria being exposed to antibiotics.
Re:Slightly more information (Score:3, Insightful)
You're absolutely right. We should set up a foundation for them - donate money to help the victims of this horrible travesty. We should do all in our power to coddle them, make them feel better and be understanding of their plight. In doing so, we should strive to send a message to people everywhere that while there may be consequences to their actions, they will gain sympathy, attention and financial support for their ordeal.
In all seriousness; this is one of those rare opportunities where stupid behaviour affected only those responsible rather than harming innocent by-standers. I'm not sure how we became so left-leaning and bleeding hearted that we can't hold people responsible for their own actions, but the condition of society at large today tells me we're going too far in the wrong direction.
The lesson here? Set something on fire, burn yourself, learn lesson. These people are themselves in a unique position to positively affect others' lives - they can talk to others, perhaps in a school setting, about the consequences of immitating art. Their pain and scars should be enough to scare most kids straight.
Re:Are people really this stupid? (Score:2, Insightful)
That has been one of my main complaints with modern life. There is no more natural selection. Ten thousand years ago these people would have been eaten by lions while going "here kitty". We can no longer depend on the stupid killing themselves off anymore.
Disgust (Score:1, Insightful)
Two people get burned and injured doing something stupid, and all of Slashdot apparently sits back and LAUGHS? Talked about DARWIN awards? "OoooOOOOoooOOOhhh... HAR HAR HAR... If these people FECKING DIE then it will teh R0x0rz!!! J00z der force!"
Reading over every comment in total disbelief... you people are just SICK.
Re:Stupidity is relative (Score:3, Insightful)
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What part of that is so hard to understand? If at 21 you don't know gasoline on fire is not a toy
Tom
Which they then set alight? (Score:3, Insightful)
And it says this where, exactly?
Does anyone who post links on Slashdot actually fucking read them before doing so?
Gowen's a maudlin pussy (Score:4, Insightful)
"People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die." --Jim Davidson on alt.folklore.urban
I can feel for the pain that these people are going to feel for the rest of their lives. But they brought that upon themselves by their epic, incredible (as in un-fucking-believable) stupidity. Because of their industrial-strength stupidity, these two are probably be on the public dole for the rest of their painful lives. The ONLY thing these two bring to the rich tapestry of the grand history of Mankind is someone to point laugh at as an example of how to not be so goddamned fucking stupid. If John Fucking Donne himself had heard about these fuckwits, he would have rightfully mocked them himself.
"It may be that your whole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others" -- unattributed
Re:Are people really this stupid? (Score:3, Insightful)
Never understimate the power of stupidity.
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.
That's not stupidity, that's him not understanding the information that you needed. Not knowing an RJ45 from an RJ11 would cripple you or me. Some people would be crippled if they couldn't remember the difference between TIA-568A and TIA-568B. This guy probably almost never has to plug a cable in, so it doesn't matter to him, nor should it.
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Re:two people are seriously injured (Score:3, Insightful)
Only if I feel like an elitist asshole who thinks his shit doesn't stink.
I've never fought with flaming flourescent tubes, but I have done stuff that by all rights should have earned me a maming. I seriously doubt you should be casting any stones.
Re:WHAT???? (Score:3, Insightful)
Three humans once sealed themselves inside a tin can sitting on top of tons of combustibles, then ignited them.
Mind-bogglingly stupid simplification. If that were what happened then the Apollo program would have been appropriately mocked. Those humans relied on a lot of work, a lot of dedication, a lot of design, a lot of safety, and a lot of will to get to the moon. Sure it was a risk, but it was a calculated risk.
These gasoline swinging idiots didn't take a calculated risk. They didn't even know that they were taking a risk, I highly doubt they thought it through.
To compare these morons to the US space program is...aahh!
BTW, the statement: I refuse to allow myself to feel contempt for them. implies that you do feel contempt for them, but are supressing it.
Re:WHAT???? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Glow Sticks (Score:5, Insightful)
If your institution DOESN'T follow these procedures (and is in the US...), let us all know so we can call your RSO and your state health department and get you shutdown for making the rest of us look bad.
We are not laughing at their injuries (Score:3, Insightful)
We make cracks at their stupidity, not at their suffering. With death and suffering all around us, one gets a strong sense of relief from the perception that at least our intelligence spares us from something as dumb as what these people were trying to do. Relef brings laughter.
There, feel better now? We aren't as inhuman as you seem to think. Perhaps you should read something about one of the human qualities [wikipedia.org] that sets us apart from other animals?
Re:Slightly more information (Score:2, Insightful)
You are one of the most moronic people I have ever had the misfortune to reply to. Iraq has nothing to do with democracy. Go read some South American history and see how many democracies the US has replaced with dictators. Most of whom were worse than Saddam, e.g. Gen Pinoche. There are numerous states worse than Saddam's Iraq, who are ACTIVELY commiting the crimes Saddam is accused of doing 10 years ago. Right now, as you read this, US allies are boiling people alive as a form of torture. I kid you not, this is happening right now. Sudan is also fucked right up due to ethnic cleansing and power struggles.
If you think Iraq is being done for "noble" reasons, then I'm glad that it makes you sleep soundly at night. The US now has a strategic foothold in the Middle East. A state with the second largest oil reserves when the rest of the planet is about see large rises in gas prices due to availablity (peak oil). It also allows them to withdraw their troops from Saudi Arabia, which incidentally is Osama's biggest beef with the USA as they are the only thing keeping Saudi's non-democratic dictatorship alive
Oh, and Bush DELIBERATELY MISLED people to get them behind the war. Go get some transcripts from the speaches he made. See how often Iraq is used in the same sentance as terrorist. See how often Saddam is mentioned alongside Al Qaida. Of this there is no doubt. It was a propaganda war, and you seem to be the loser. When 50% of Americans responded in a poll that they believed Saddam was behind 9/11 it was NO accident. It was a concerted effort to place the smoking gun in Iraq, irregardless of truth and justice. That seems to be the American Way now.
Planning for the Iraq invasion PREDATES 9/11. The Project For A New Amercian Century took advantage of 9/11 to get the public on side. This is a documented fact.
EVERYTHING that has happened in Iraq was completely predicatable. With some of your politians having Vietnam experience (from both sides), you'd think they'd know a little better. NO ONE wants their country invaded, regardless of the reasons. Especially by a nation that isn't all that popular in the region to begin with. It's your quagmire and 100,000 people are dead because of YOU. And I mean you personally, as you are for their death it would seem. 25,000 of these are double-verified lists of civilans. You can take your 9/11 3,000 deaths and stick them up your arse as far as I'm concerned. Fuck you, and the horse you rode on.
Re:Glow Sticks (Score:2, Insightful)
The best thing about the English language was dropping the daft notion of gender in inanimate objects.
The Empire should have won (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Slightly more information (Score:3, Insightful)
Ergo, they are all there because of Bush et al's statements. Every single one of them. If Bush et al had not repeatedly and forcefully made those statements, and thereby garnered sufficient political support for the invasion, which made the subsequent reconstruction necessary, none of the people who are in Iraq due to the invasion and reconstruction would be there.
Were those statements lies?
Perhaps not. Perhaps they were even more venial--the result of putting ideology before facts in such a way that the whole institution of the American government was twisted by that distorting influence.
There were no WMDs. Iraq did not support al Quaeda. There was no clear and present danger to the U.S. or any of its allies from the Hussein government. There was no attempt to acquire yellow-cake. The aluminum tubes were not suitable for gas centrifuges. American and British intelligence had more than sufficient information to be acceptably sure of all these things. Bush and many other senior administration officials, as well as foreign leaders and their senior people, had or should have had sufficient access to that information to know that.
So were they criminally incompetent, or just criminal? Those are the only two choices available.
Nor is this purely academic. Aside from the congressional elections next year and in the years that follow, there are war crimes tribunals, and in the fullness of time they will reach even to the highest places.
if it had been a videogame... (Score:3, Insightful)
If they had imitated a videogame, in a related news we would have heard about lawsuits and crusades.