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Old 03-08-2006, 12:53 PM   #1
Cheese
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Go Fly a Kite! oops...Not in Pakistan!

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Kite-flying in Pakistan and neighboring India often involves aerial duels in which participants try to bring down each other's kites using string coated in a sticky paste of ground-up glass or metal.
Every year, Pakistani media report dozens of deaths and injuries caused by kite flying, mainly of children and motorcyclists whose throats are sometimes cut by metal or glass-coated string.
Wow....I woulda never thunk Kite flying was such a dangerous sport!

Kite wars!
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Old 03-08-2006, 01:03 PM   #2
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A detailed explanation of it in this article on Afghan kite-flying . . .

http://afghana.com/Entertainment/Gudiparanbazi.htm

Makes the kite wars my uncle (same age as me) and myself had as kids out in the pasture seem pretty tame.

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