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11 dead, 100 injured in kite flying festival

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Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “Go fly a kite”

Maybe Allah made Muslims just so we could laugh at them.
Oh!! I wonder if we can talk the Liberals into banning Kite Flying???

Good grief. After reading that story, I checked the website to see if it wasn’t really a variant (or equivalent) of The Onion. I’d love to crack about nineteen tasteless jokes right here, but people are dead and that’s just not funny. Those poor, silly, cursed people.

there is nothing more fun than flying a kite on a windy day, you need to run a bit first to let the kite catch some air, give it plenty of string and let it fly, the trick is in keeping it up! I’ve been a closet kiter for years.

How do you sharpen string?

Obviously, Pakistanis simply don’t have the technical know-how to safely manage such a tricky event as a kite-flying festival. We Canadians should ship them a tanker-load of snow, so they could hold a snowman-building festival instead.
Oh wait, they might get frostbite.

kite flying, snowman building, swinging on swings
these are a few of my favorite things.

Several years ago, I had the elementary school staff out for a yr end picnic, along with all the sp needs students. For entertainment I told them I was going to tell teachers something I and probably thousands of others had wanted to do for years. I told them to go fly a kite, then gave them all a kite. Great fun and they all enjoyed it. Said they hadn’t done that for years.

Oh, God, don’t send them snow. They’d make Taliban snowmen.

Blame it all on The Darwin Awards.

Just amazing,really,Why can’t our forces not wipe thier fighters out in a nano-second? How can these people be a danger to world peace? A couple boatloads of lawn darts and they would be gone.

Gord Tulk wrote:
“How do you sharpen string?”
With a file. Duh.

gives new meaning to ‘go fly a kite’.
hey, stephannnn dionnnn: “go____fly_____a____KITE”

Hmmm…before any lefty-moron scolds you all, I will. The kite flyers participating in such a stupid way are stupid…it is not necessarily a result of the “muslim” influence. Kindly knock off the borderline racist comments, please.
Denigrate them for being a**holes and idiots all you like but leave race and religion out of the comments on this story…it doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with it.

Gord….they coat the string in glue and roll it in crushed glass.
So imagine the speed of a diving kite or someone running with one at low level and a string of crushed glass cuts across your neck ir forearm.
It has been going on for years. This was the excuse the Taliban used to ban Kite Flying, a public safety issue.
Kite Flying has nothing to do with Islam….banning it does tangentally, a government that is so interested in regulating everything, including fun.
The taliban probably didnt like the betting that went on with the Kite Fighting competitions.
All sides of it are ridiculous. Excuse me while i head out for my runing with scissors race

…while I feel sorry for the folks there, I couldn’t help thinking about Darwin’s laws.

Darwin Always WINS!

“The festival is regularly marred by casualties caused by sharp kite strings or celebratory gunshots fired into the air”
Let’s not wax too smug, here. The only thing that prevents this from happening in Canada is our blessed gun control.
Sharp kite string registry? Hmmm.