You shouldn't have to die because of kites

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You shouldn't have to die from anything, really, but jeez.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 15 February 2004 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, now where's the feel-good Cool Runnings-style movie adaptation?

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 15 February 2004 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

And I though alligators coming out of the toliet was bad...Christ!

― Dante-Cubed (Sean3), Sunday, 15 February 2004 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought this was going to be about the birds. My Dad told me that in one of the countries he visited whilst in the RAF (iirc Egypt) the kites used to swoop down and nick their lunch, but I don't think they could kill you.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 16 February 2004 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)

IT COULD BE WORSE!

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 16 February 2004 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

FEBRUARY 2: The body of a security-guard, Sok Sitha, 47, was found floating in a fish pond at 5:30 am in Tonle Bassac commune, Phnom Penh. Police said Sitha was probably electrocuted while electrocuting fish at the pond in the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts.

― Kingfish Beatbox (Kingfish), Monday, 16 February 2004 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Exactly!

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 16 February 2004 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

It kind of makes the Taliban ban on kite flying look sensible.

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Monday, 16 February 2004 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Matt DC to thread!

also, Simon Dupree & The Big Sound

but not Mary Poppins

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 16 February 2004 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

A lot of stuff in that police report involve:

- Fishing
- Motorbikes
- Hitting with sticks!

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 16 February 2004 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, Lahore is mental for the kite flying. When we lived there I and my sister were supposed to stay indoors during the festival, but occasionally sneaked out onto the roof to watch. It's terribly pretty, but umm dangerous. Most people use super-strong strings covered with glass dust for cutting other kite strings, but obv. metal is coming into vogue. Blimey.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/02/17/farmer.chopper.ap/index.html

ORTHOGANALLY RELATED!

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

You're a letdown Jon. Ian totally would have mentioned the band Kites ON TEH LOADE RECORDES

― dean! (deangulberry), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I HAVE A POSTER MADE BY CHRIS/KITES ABOVE MY BED.

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

You would.

― dean! (deangulberry), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

eleven months pass...

20 killed in kites flying fest in Pakistan

www.chinaview.cn 2005-02-07 13:42:29

ISLAMABAD, Feb. 7 (Xinhuanet) -- At least 17 people including eight children lost their lives and more than 500 injured while celebrating Basant or kites flying festival Sunday in Lahore, capital of eastern Punjab province, taking the death toll to 20 as three people were killed on Basant night, The Nation reported Monday.

Seven persons were crushed to death while trying to catch stray kites, six others died after falling from rooftop of their houses, two teenage boys died after being hit by stray bullets in two different incidents, while a 7-years old boy was electrocuted and a four years-old girl was killed when a stray string slit open herthroat.

Rescue officials said they picked up at least 24 patients whosethroats were cut by twine at different roads and shifted them to hospitals.

Throughout the day, the city remained echoing with aerial firing and fireworks and peaked at the sunset.

Sunday's killing of 17 persons took the death toll to 20 in the night-and-day festival this year. Last year too, as many as 20 persons were killed in Lahore while celebrating the yearly Basant.

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Monday, 7 February 2005 12:47 (twenty-one years ago)

So it's less deadly to be chased by bulls through a narrow road than it is to fly kites. My.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 06:52 (twenty-one years ago)

a friend of mine completed and is shopping around a script based on this festival..

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 09:16 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG they do this every year? And it's always a melee of death and dismemberment? Someone should seriously rethink this event.

I am laughing my ass off. Not at the death, which I will surely consider terrible once I compose myself, but at the grand absurdity. Grand!

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 09:27 (twenty-one years ago)

You guys seem to be forgetting something: 9/11.

― Who did release magic family out from the base of $499 (deangulberry), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 09:50 (twenty-one years ago)

NEVAR 4GIT

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 10:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, Ned started this thread the day after I almost killed a small child with a plummeting kite.

Since then the kite itself has, in fact, died a sad death.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 10:04 (twenty-one years ago)

http://drachenmanufaktur.com/albums/kite-illus/bk_1962charliebrown_goflyakite.jpg

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 11:02 (twenty-one years ago)

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