Flunking out of the Jedi Academy

Warning: Using The Force™ may result in severe injuries.

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.

Okay, how about we pour gasoline into thin glass tubes, light the gas, then use the tubes to duel? How cool would that look? What could possibly go wrong?

The brain trust has been transferred to a specialist burns unit.