Posted on 05/26/2005 1:12:16 PM PDT by Sax
Sith Fans Maimed in Lightsaber Mishap
By Charlie Amter Thu May 26,11:51 AM ET
The Force--let alone common sense--was definitely not with them.
Two British Star Wars fans sustained critical injuries after constructing their own lightsabers from fluorescent light tubes filled with liquid fuel.
According to British media reports, a 20-year-old man and his 17-year-old female friend were filming a mock duel in homage to Star Wars: Episode III--Revenge of the Sith, the latest chapter of George Lucas' record-breaking franchise.
The duo were reportedly emulating one of Sith's key battles, a lightsaber clash between Ewan McGregor's Obi-Wan Kenobi and Hayden Christensen's Anakin Skywalker.
The two Brits suffered severe burns when their homemade sabers exploded. The two had been videotaping their clash. They have been hospitalized at Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire since the accident Sunday.
Aside from fiery accidents, the Sith craze is being blamed on a string of robberies. In separate incidents in Illinois and Florida, dark side-inspired crooks wearing Darth Vader helmets are being sought by police on assault and robbery charges.
Meanwhile, in other Sith-related news, federal authorities have shut down online file-sharing network Elite Torrents. The network had Star Wars: Episode III--Revenge of the Sith available as a download hours before the film even bowed in U.S. theaters on May 19. Officials for the Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security said users of the site had downloaded Sith more than 10,000 times in its first 24 hours of availibility.
Still, the online leak hasn't hurt Sith's bottom line, as the film broke all kinds of box-office records, including a Chewbacca-size $50 million on its first day of release.
All told, the film has raked in nearly $183 million domestically, per BoxOfficeMojo.com, with the lucrative Memorial Day weekend looming.
Then it really is true! Heard this on "shocking news" (meaning, you guess which ridiculous story is NOT true, which can be scary) this morning.
Yeah, nothing quite like taking tubes made of paper-thin glass, filling them with agitated flammables and wacking away at each other with them. Brilliant!
Heh heh. Triumph rules. I love it when he asks the Darth Vader nerd which button on his chest calls his parents to come pick him up. He also came up here and did a very scathing and humourous attack on French Canadians.
You beat me to it.
natural selection ping
That was my favorite too! Also dug the "So, who is feeding your pet snake/and/or/tarantula while you are here?"
Yikes! So where the one with the Jewish Jedi Rabbi? Whoooooshzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. I've come for the bris.
To say nothing of the thousands of sharp, tiny little oh-so-thin and oh-so-fragile glass shards embedded in their pores.
LOL!
That's it!
Have you been to that other thread today? Silly stuff going on over there.
Which thread - can you send a link?
Q: "What is the purpose of the Jedi?"
A: "To protect peace and justice through out the galaxy."
Q: "And eat a lot of Peanut M&Ms?"
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