Evan the Amazing
Apr. 2, 2007. 05:16 PM
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11 die in Pakistan kite festival
At least 11 people have died and more than 100 injured at an annual kite flying festival in eastern Pakistan.
The spring festival is traditionally celebrated with the flying of thousands of colorful kites.
The deaths and injuries were caused by stray bullets, sharpened kite-strings, electrocution and people falling off rooftops at the conclusion of the two-day Basant festival on Sunday, Ruqia Bano, spokeswoman for the emergency services in the city of Lahore, said on Monday.
The festival is regularly marred by casualties caused by sharp kite strings or celebratory gunshots fired into the air.
Kite flyers often use strings made of wire or coated with ground glass to try to cross and cut a rival's string or damage the other kite, often after betting on the outcome.
Arrests made
Authorities temporarily lifted a ban on kite-flying that was imposed following a string of deaths at the festival last year.
Mian Amier Mahmood, the Lahore mayor, said the two-day permission to fly kites ended on Sunday and that the ban had been re-imposed.
Police arrested more than 700 people for using sharpened kite strings or firing guns, and seized 282 illegally held weapons during this year's festival, said Aftab Cheema, a senior police officer in Lahore.
Five of those who died on Sunday were hit by stray bullets, including a six-year-school boy who was struck in the head near his home in the city's Mazang area, Bano said.
He also said that a 16-year-old girl and a school boy, 12, died after their throats were slashed by metal kite strings in separate incidents.
Two people were electrocuted while they tried to recover kites tangled in overhead power cables.
A 13-year-old boy fell to his death from the roof of his home as he tried to catch a stray kite, and a 35-year-old woman fell off the roof of her home trying to stop her son from running after a stray kite.
Source:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C1C...3B430EAFF2F.htmYou know, it's pretty sad when the traditional
Pakistan Live Ammunition Celebration is voted the safest festive event in Pakistan. Pakistan is officially the dumbest country.
Axel2992
Apr. 2, 2007. 05:20 PM
Man that sucks. But I bet it would suck more to be a dead dyslexic guy than just a dead guy.
aussieash
Apr. 2, 2007. 05:20 PM
ahaha
i really shouldnt laugh
but why did there kites have strings that were so sharp
hmm silly silly
its a kite massacre hehe
Mattymonkey
Apr. 2, 2007. 05:40 PM
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i really shouldnt laugh
but why did there kites have strings that were so sharp
hmm silly silly
to cut through other kite strings, making their kite useless and unflyable.
aussieash
Apr. 2, 2007. 05:44 PM
hahaha are you serious?
thats a good idea, except that it just kills about 100 people!
ha
Mattymonkey
Apr. 2, 2007. 05:48 PM
its pakistan. lol. yeah somepeople, are pretty cleaver...but in the same...dumb as hell.
Darrin
Apr. 2, 2007. 05:48 PM
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thats a good idea, except that it just kills about 100 people!
injures
reminds me of that thing off south park where butters kills all those people in a tap dancing contest
aussieash
Apr. 2, 2007. 05:49 PM
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thats a good idea, except that it just kills about 100 people!
injures
being sarcastic i was
ngard
Apr. 2, 2007. 05:52 PM
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hahaha are you serious?
thats a good idea, except that it just kills about 100 people!
ha
They bet on the battles between the two kites.
That's why they ban kites in the Mideast, and people make it out to be some kind of fundamentalist thing. I heard some kid got decapitated on the back of a motorcycle because a kite flew too low.
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thats a good idea, except that it just kills about 100 people!
injures
being
sarcastic retarded i was
Fixed you.
Chris AwesomeFace Awesome
Apr. 2, 2007. 05:58 PM
That is some crazy stuff, but that is pretty much the equivalent to July 4th in The States, I remember hearing of several incidents where kids blew off their hands and stray bullets hit children and men sitting in their lawns...
Every country for the most part has chaotic festivals or celibrations where people are over come by stupidity or badly thought out plans to have a "Good Time."
lordsalmon
Apr. 2, 2007. 05:59 PM
reminds me of the time when I was flying a kite with my cousins and I was running trying to get the kite in the air and ran, head first into a basket ball pole. it knocked me on my back and I had no idea what happened.
aussieash
Apr. 2, 2007. 05:59 PM
haha, why thank you
Camisado<3
Apr. 2, 2007. 08:23 PM
Oh god. It sounds really funny when you say that 11 people died by Kites!
Very sad though.
spaedin
Apr. 2, 2007. 08:39 PM
That's really sad...weird thing is, I've celebrated that festival before. Yeah, they take it really seriously. Making bets and stuff.
mt_mega
Apr. 2, 2007. 08:57 PM
Good to see Evan back in action.
Oh, and that sucks for the kite kids.
Rodro
Apr. 2, 2007. 09:11 PM
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thats a good idea, except that it just kills about 100 people!
injures
reminds me of that thing off south park where butters kills all those people in a tap dancing contest
HAHAHAHAHAHA I just remembered that part. soooo Awesome.
here the link for the ones who dont know what we're talking about
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...eoID=2013934371
Ernie
Apr. 2, 2007. 09:12 PM
hmmm i want all those Pakistani people to take a few seconds and ask themselves:
was it worth it?
Megadeth53
Apr. 2, 2007. 09:17 PM
Wow...how stupid.
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thats a good idea, except that it just kills about 100 people!
injures
reminds me of that thing off south park where butters kills all those people in a tap dancing contest
HAHAHAHAHAHA I just remembered that part. soooo Awesome.
here the link for the ones who dont know what we're talking about
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...eoID=2013934371oh yea that was a great episode!
jadem
Apr. 2, 2007. 09:30 PM
That's crazy!
fredman555
Apr. 3, 2007. 03:04 AM
bummer, that must suck.
Swing that Smosh
Apr. 3, 2007. 03:12 AM
What a horrible way to die
hilarious though
Shoreline
Apr. 3, 2007. 03:42 AM
That's awful.
DANGbang!
Apr. 3, 2007. 03:47 AM
I found the last bit funny, lmao.
But yeah, thats pretty tragic.
costa-k
Apr. 3, 2007. 04:03 AM
you can't be anymore badass once your at the point when you can be dangerous while flying a kite. Though i did once kill a man with a swizzle straw.
nba185
Apr. 3, 2007. 04:04 AM
perfect murder idea. lol.
irish smurfy
Apr. 3, 2007. 04:07 AM
Jeez! That's ...... I don't even know how to describe that.
11 people died from Kites!
Although it would be so painful to get a sharp, barbed kite string in the face
-smosh-fan-
Apr. 3, 2007. 04:35 AM
Poor kiters...
Sharp strings hurts
xo_iM_A_CooL_PoTATo
Apr. 3, 2007. 05:09 AM
geez...how stupid can people be?
audra
Apr. 3, 2007. 06:11 AM
that is the most bazaro article ive ever seen. when i first started reading it i was like "wtf is a sharpened kite??" they cant just fly their kite in peace? those people are friggen crazy
erkin
Apr. 3, 2007. 06:11 AM
omg
-N-
Apr. 3, 2007. 06:15 AM
hahahhahahahhahahahha!!!
pakistan? that's not even a real country!
spaedin
Apr. 3, 2007. 06:24 AM
Um, I hope you're joking.
-N-
Apr. 3, 2007. 06:36 AM
Of course I am.
dusty
Apr. 3, 2007. 06:53 AM
I'm sorry, but this has got to be one of the dumbest things I have heard of in a long time. How fucking stupid are these people? ugh...
xoxenglishbabexox
Apr. 3, 2007. 07:22 AM
That's actually really sad, but I don't think it means the whole country's stupid. Every country has weird things like that, it just happened that you heard about that one.
Like there's this place in England where they have weird sports competitions and one thing they do is roll cheese down a hill and many people have got seriously injured by rolling cheese, although I don't think anyones died yet though....
Click on this link to read about it and watch a video... if you can be bothered. YAY!!!
http://www.cotswolds.info/strange-things.shtml(you have to scroll down a bit to get to it)
Steve_Kid
Apr. 3, 2007. 08:07 AM
well... er.... kites....
and did i read that right.... some people got banned from flying kites?!
wahahhahhaha
staciixsmosh
Apr. 3, 2007. 08:11 AM
Sounds...painful I guess
Mezelf_doc
Apr. 3, 2007. 09:44 AM
i'll never look at a kite the way i used to..
Katie
Apr. 3, 2007. 09:49 AM
HA! what a way to go ey.
R.I.P yooo crazzzzy kiters!
mad muffinz
Apr. 3, 2007. 11:21 AM
those people were pwned by kites, what a sorry way to die
the nutty kid
Apr. 3, 2007. 12:38 PM
jeeze thats some messed up crap right there, i've heard of some crazy stuff but that puts the icing on the cake ( i know, very gay statement )
toreen
Apr. 3, 2007. 12:48 PM
reminds of me of some sci-fi and horror shows about people going on with their lives, then some strange occurence kill and hurts everyone
chelseaisapigeon
Apr. 3, 2007. 05:36 PM
if that's the safest event, then I wonder what's their other top 9 safest events? I mean, what could you have after blood-thirsty, murderous kites?
ijustleft
Apr. 4, 2007. 09:29 AM
That's just crazy!
liloz92
Apr. 4, 2007. 09:42 AM
wow sharp kite strings. do they have anything better to bet on?
Evan the Amazing
Apr. 7, 2007. 10:04 AM
"Hey dad, what should we use for our kite string? Barbed wire?"
"Nah you're old enough now, you're in kindergarten right? Let's use the razor wire."
Destructive
Apr. 7, 2007. 01:05 PM
Craziness!
NinjaPudding
Apr. 7, 2007. 01:09 PM
Death by kite?
Lmao
jgrizzXcore
Apr. 7, 2007. 02:12 PM
That's not even sad. Those people are fucking stupid.
julie_nicole_x3
Apr. 30, 2007. 05:56 PM
don't mean to be insensitive here..but just the headline makes me laugh. "11 people dead after Kite flying contest". It just sounds funny..hehe.
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