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| Annual Pakistani Kite Festival Kills 11 | |
| 2007-02-26 | |
| It's that time of year again... An annual weekend kite-flying celebration of spring in eastern Pakistan resulted in the deaths of least 11 people and injuries to more than 500 others. When kites are outlawed, only outlaws will have kites.
...and what's a kite flying festival without gun sex? The fatalities were caused by people being struck by stray bullets, from being sliced by razor-sharp kite wire and kite cords hitting electrical lines, officials said. Six of the dead were children, the report said. I've always said that no kite is complete unless it has razor sharp wire... Other injuries were reported from falls by people trying to recover kites tangled in trees and on rooftops, Kuwait's Kuna news agency reported. I'll get it. It's just hung up on that power line... The country's supreme court banned the Basant festival because of fatalities in previous years but the provincial Punjab government lifted the ban for the weekend, Kuna said. Police said they made more than 800 arrests on firearms and hooliganism during the weekend. Kite: check Razor sharp wire : check AK-47: check Okay. Let's go to Basant... | |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #7 LOL R joe. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-02-26 22:02 |
| #6 Used kites for sale -- only been dropped once. ok - so I stole it from some movie I can't remember the name though. |
| Posted by: macofromoc 2007-02-26 19:19 |
| #5 Reading the headline I thought -- "Kites... why do they hate Pakis?" But reading the article I can fully appreciate the kites point of view -- hell I even admire their kill ratio. |
| Posted by: regular joe 2007-02-26 17:37 |
| #4 Actually, it appears to be a Hindu thing. Thus proving, in Pakistan at least, nobody's got a monopoly on crazy. Must be the water. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-02-26 11:35 |
| #3 I have always said that we could use more kite and automatic weapons fueled mayhem here in the states. Sounds like a blast. Do you think they have guys selling nitrous in the parking lot? |
| Posted by: garbagecowboy 2007-02-26 11:32 |
| #2 Allan's Snackbar! |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-02-26 11:31 |
| #1 And a funtime was had by all, paki-style. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2007-02-26 11:23 |