The Importance of Being Idle

The Shallow End Of The Gene Pool

Okay, I just heard this on the news and, in a cruel and vindictive way, its the funniest thing I've heard in ages.
Two Star Wars fans (aged 20 and 17) have been critically injured whilst filming their own lightsaber duel. They had, in a stroke of mind-boggling genius, decided to make their own lightsabers by filling flourescent light tubes with petrol. Unsurprisingly (to everyone with half a brain) these 'lightsabers' exploded when ignited, leaving our two erstwhile Jedi lacerated by flying glass, and, oh yes, on fire. Even better, they had actually video'd this amazing and prolonged act of stupidity for all to see, although sadly this tape has not been made public at this time. I for one would love to see it.
What's really amazing about this story though, is that somehow Star Wars is being blamed for this. I can see a lot of things being responsible for this, such as low grade mental retardation or aggressive stupidity, maybe alcohol or drugs, but seriously, how is Star Wars responsible for this? These people were going to find a way to mangle themselves one way or the other, it was just a question of when.
In other comedy related news, according to BBC management, yesterdays strike did not have a significant or adverse effect on the corporations output. Clearly they weren't actually watching yesterday then...

posted by BadMonkey @ 1:38 PM