Friday, May 27, 2005

Lightsabre duel ends badly

Credit to RootsRadical for leading me to this story about a lightsaber fight that went terribly wrong. The article is Brit-ish, so it's called a lightsabre:

Two hurt in mock light sabre duel

Two Star Wars fans are in a critical condition in hospital after apparently trying to make light sabres by filling fluorescent light tubes with petrol.

A man, aged 20, and a girl of 17 are believed to have been filming a mock duel when they poured fuel into two glass tubes and lit it.

The pair were rushed to hospital after one of the devices exploded in woodland at Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire.

A third person present at the incident had been questioned, police said.

Videotape found

A videotape was found nearby by police called to the scene on Sunday.

A police spokeswoman said the pair were taken to West Herts Hospital before being transferred to the specialist burns unit at Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, in Essex.

They are both said to be in a critical condition. Rest of article

Moral of the story: Petrol is not a toy. Nope, it's not.

1 comment:

Recovery Road London said...

Thanks for the mention.

Some people, eh? Petrol....light tubes....fire.....

**shakes head**

Nice blog and love the photos, btw.

regards

Kenny