Bright young boys

[DocBot]

... or maybe not...

...yeah, that'll be fun, picking the pieces.

 

[Pubic_Warrior]

WTF did he hit him with???

 

[DocBot]

fluorescent light, er, bar... thingie? we call them "light tubes" in sweden. I don't know any good english words for it... *googles*

edit: no, you just call them "lamps", apparently. Correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[Fi$hy]

Looks like one of those big ole' light bulbs you get in School's

(at least, that would explain the white powder!)

Or perhaps, he hit him with a months supply of crack, hidden ingeniously in a glass tube!!! (or not....)

 

[KillCrazy]

We call them fluorescent tubes And fucking ouch....that was a nasty shot!

 

[Macca]

Hehe, all the guy says is oh my god! oh my god! I thought it was a burnung metal pole or something and thats why it was white, just doesn't seem as good now .

 

[Pestcontrol]

Oh it's still good if you know that white powder are various phosphor compounds now entering the guy's bloodsteam through those wounds.

Did i mention fluorescents also contain mercury? Although i'm not sure if that's still true today.

 

[DocBot]

wouldn't start bleeding like that if it was a burn...

 

[BiG D]

Yes, the mercury is rather important to the operation of the thing, no?

 

[Pestcontrol]

Just checked:

A fluorescent lamp bulb is filled with a gas containing low pressure argon (or more rarely argon-neon or sometimes even krypton) and mercury vapor. The inner surface of the bulb is coated with a fluorescent paint made of varying blends of metallic and rare-earth phosphor salts. The bulb's cathode is typically made of coiled tungsten which is coated with a mixture of barium, strontium and calcium oxides (chosen to have a relatively low thermionic emission temperature).

Oh yes, the perfect mixture to have smashed through your skin. I suppose some of the mercury would condense on the pressure change as the bulb breaks, no idea how much it is, though.

I think the mercury is needed to have the UV gas discharge that the phosphor works on.

 

[DocBot]

Yes, bright boys indeed...

 

[Pestcontrol]

Until their lightbulb broke.

 

[Fuzzy Bunny]

Ouch.

I always wanted to try breaking one of those. Not on someone, but maybe on something. Never realized something like that would happen.

 

[Pestcontrol]

In class 8 years ago we all shot paperclips into the ceiling with a rubberband, the ceilings were soft so they'd stick in there, after a while it looked like an upside down pin cushion. The cool bit was that anyone could do it in such a way the teacher wouldn't see who. Then someone hit a fluorescent, it may have been me, i don't know, there was a shower of glass and some white powder, nobody got hurt though.

And nobody got punished for it, and we didn't even get punished collectively. We stopped shooting though.

 

[T-Bone]

Oh Your God....