Posted on 08/17/2016 9:07:08 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
The object is to make your kite dive at another in such a way that its string cuts the string of the other kite, causing it to fall. Then, usually, a second game ensues for the gaggle of children who have been watching the aerial battle. They scramble to follow the snipped kite as it falls, racing to be the one who can retrieve it for its owner...
Shops that sell kites began stocking glass-laced kite strings to make it easier to cut others' strings.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Kits are such a fun toy!
I remember reading about this war-kite, string-coated-with-powdered-glass thing when I was in about second grade.
It’s always fun until someone gets their throat slit.
rofl!!!
you sick ####!
lol!
I suspect that someone angry that his kit line was cut pulled on it really hard after it had fallen and it somehow got tangled up in people, and he just jerked on it anyway, forgetting the risk.
Reminds me of some sci-fi stories involving monomolecular wire used as a weapon. A blade so thin, it effortlessly slices thru anything.
What could possibly go wrong?
In other breaking news... a dozen people died in India after slipping on cow dung and hitting their heads during Krishna Bovine Brahmamashtami a day when thousands of revered Indian cows take to the streets to celebrate the harvest of alfalfa.
Link to original story: http://www.hindustantimes.com/delhi/he-couldn-t-even-shout-he-just-collapsed-and-died-in-his-father-s-lap/story-l59ikQAbqliSSYBSe6UVAN.html
Children riding along in the car with heads out of the sunroof. Couple lost both children, ages 3 and 4. Very sad.
More kite string violence.
We need kite string control.
Shadow Square wire from "Ringworld" or a Variable Sword which was a wire suspended in a stasis field.
Both from the mind of Larry Niven.
Looks like tragic accidents in which people riding in motor vehicles got their necks caught in strands of this sharp string that had been left over a roadway.
They’ve banned the stuff altogether in India and I find it hard to blame them, though perhaps restricting its use to open fields, where motor vehicle encounters could not occur — and requiring all pieces of it to be picked up afterwards — would be sufficient.
It’s kind of like fireworks in the USA. Someone uses them stupidly, gets maimed or killed or starts a tragic fire, and then they let nobody use them. Because people did not think.
“I remember reading about this war-kite, string-coated-with-powdered-glass thing when I was in about second grade.”
Me too. I think it was part of a story in one of our readers.
That is a tragic story! It sounds like it is glass embedded strings meant for fighting kites that have been intentionally strung across roadways at neck level that caused the injuries. The article said that charges have been filed against the perpetrators.
Different story from the lede story here maybe. This sounds like careless kite flyers who left pieces of this sharp string behind entangled in tree branches or wires over a roadway, and did not mention anybody actually being accused.
There have been deliberate booby traps heard of in the US where someone strings picture wire over a street. It has maimed and killed motorcycle riders and damaged cars.
When kite string is outlawed, only outlaws will have kite string.
Nowhere as cool as the Bass-o-Matic, though.
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