David Leblond

Now THATS a friggin kite flying festival

In Pakistan, they held an annual kite flying festival where 11 people were killed, and 100 people injured. HOW do you get killed at a kite flying festival??

The deaths and injuries were caused by stray bullets, sharpened kite-strings, electrocution and people falling off rooftops yesterday at the conclusion of the two-day Basant festival, said Ruqia Bano, spokeswoman for emergency service in the city of Lahore.

Wait wait, sharpened kite-strings??

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.

Oh that makes sense. Here I thought Charlie Brown was starting to freak. “Stupid kite-eating tree!”