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| 20 killed in kites flying fest in Pakistan |
| 2005-02-07 |
| 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. |
| Posted by:Bulldog |
| #9 During the riots in Berkeley in the 60s, hippies and rabble rousers flew hundreds of kites all over Berkeley and the campus to serve as the equivalent of barrage balloons to keep the choppers away. Nobody got hurt by a kite. And these were druggies and anarchists. This Pak show is something else. Work accidents from kites. Sheesh! |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2005-02-07 5:10:52 PM |
| #8 How can you be "crushed" by "trying to catch stray kites" Probably when there's an RPG-7 attached... |
| Posted by: Dreadnought 2005-02-07 12:35:50 PM |
| #7 Let me tell ya... |
| Posted by: Rachel Corrie 2005-02-07 12:15:26 PM |
| #6 How can you be "crushed" by "trying to catch stray kites"? |
| Posted by: Kalchas 2005-02-07 12:10:43 PM |
| #5 It's as Bulldog described, but improved with gun sex. The throat cutting "twine" is steel wire to prevent being but by razor blades. Makes a wonderful conductor. |
| Posted by: ed 2005-02-07 8:39:44 AM |
| #4 Possibly, but it does say "cut by twine". |
| Posted by: Tom 2005-02-07 8:30:53 AM |
| #3 Tom, I wonder whether the Pakistani 'kites flying fest' is the same sort of thing the Chinese (used to?) get up to, being more like kite warfare than innocent aerobatics. Competing kites had sharp material embedded in the twine and the objective was, or became, severing your opponents' line. Not things you want to be downwind of. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2005-02-07 8:27:20 AM |
| #2 "Rescue officials said they picked up at least 24 patients whose throats were cut by twine at different roads and shifted them to hospitals." Whoa! Thanks for posting that one, Bulldog. I've flown kites many times and was totally unaware of the throat-cutting risk. Of course I've never used my wife's and kids' necks to tie off either... |
| Posted by: Tom 2005-02-07 8:11:01 AM |
| #1 .....and these are the cave dwelling bastards that are in charge of nuclear weapons? BTW, I thought Benjamin Franklin already tried this experiment. Oh! that's right, they only allow the Moronic Koranic(TM) into their schools. |
| Posted by: Poison Reverse 2005-02-07 8:04:15 AM |