You may be saying, 'Wait, haven't I already heard about this? Wasn't there already a kite festival with a tragically high number of deaths?' Yeah, but that was a couple years ago when nine people died in 2004. The government in Pakistan banned in it in 2005, but finally lifted the ban for a few days in 2007. I guess they figured people learned their lesson and would stop using "sharpened kite twine". Well they figured wrong, with 10 (some reports say 11) dead in two days, the government's warning about using razor and glass shards to better your kite's odds were obviously unheeded. But lets not blame this all on the kites, some people got so pumped up about the kites that they couldn't help but fire off a couple shots of celebratory gun fire. But that's not the kite's fault.Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Nothing Beats A Good Kite Festival.
Oh yeah, the tranquil beauty of a kite soaring above. The loops the twists, the oohs, the ahhs, the screams, the gunfire, the wail of ambulances. Sounds great.
You may be saying, 'Wait, haven't I already heard about this? Wasn't there already a kite festival with a tragically high number of deaths?' Yeah, but that was a couple years ago when nine people died in 2004. The government in Pakistan banned in it in 2005, but finally lifted the ban for a few days in 2007. I guess they figured people learned their lesson and would stop using "sharpened kite twine". Well they figured wrong, with 10 (some reports say 11) dead in two days, the government's warning about using razor and glass shards to better your kite's odds were obviously unheeded. But lets not blame this all on the kites, some people got so pumped up about the kites that they couldn't help but fire off a couple shots of celebratory gun fire. But that's not the kite's fault.
You may be saying, 'Wait, haven't I already heard about this? Wasn't there already a kite festival with a tragically high number of deaths?' Yeah, but that was a couple years ago when nine people died in 2004. The government in Pakistan banned in it in 2005, but finally lifted the ban for a few days in 2007. I guess they figured people learned their lesson and would stop using "sharpened kite twine". Well they figured wrong, with 10 (some reports say 11) dead in two days, the government's warning about using razor and glass shards to better your kite's odds were obviously unheeded. But lets not blame this all on the kites, some people got so pumped up about the kites that they couldn't help but fire off a couple shots of celebratory gun fire. But that's not the kite's fault.
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