[DUMBGRUNT]

The glass shards in string have been around a while. Must be a new improved version?

Kits are such a fun toy!

[Steely Tom]

I remember reading about this war-kite, string-coated-with-powdered-glass thing when I was in about second grade.

[ichabod1]

It’s always fun until someone gets their throat slit.

[Mr. Douglas]

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.

[Flick Lives]

Reminds me of some sci-fi stories involving monomolecular wire used as a weapon. A blade so thin, it effortlessly slices thru anything.

[dfwgator]

The glass shards in string have been around a while

What could possibly go wrong?

[fireman15]

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.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

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

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Children riding along in the car with heads out of the sunroof. Couple lost both children, ages 3 and 4. Very sad.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Not just for kids anymore.

[smokingfrog]

More kite string violence.

We need kite string control.

[HiTech RedNeck]

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.

[dfwgator]

Sounds like something this guy would have thought up.

[buwaya]

Been around a LOOONG time.
We had these strings in Asia since before I was born.
Kite-fighting was a thing.

[entropy12]

This story sounds bogus to me. I grew up coating ground glass on kite strings. I did have several cuts on my fingers but they were never more than 1 mm deep. To slit someone's throat, the person had to be held down by force and several hundred yards long string pulled around his throat. Simply getting tangled won't cause cuts deeper than 1 mm.

On "Sakrant" day in January, my town had half a million kites in the sky, cutting off strings of other flying kites. It was the the most exciting day in life of us as teenagers. More exciting than Diwali, Christmas and New Years, combined.

[grey_whiskers]

Muslim extremist kites?

[Carriage Hill]

Never heard of this before.

[Organic Panic]

Assault kites.

[ETL]

In other news, razor-edged frisbee decapitates man in park.

[ETL]

What's this I hear about flying kites in a deli??

There's is not enough room in a deli to fly a kite!

I'm not surprised someone got hurt!