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Billzebub
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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.
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Some Islamist groups have staged protests in the past week after newspapers reported several deaths caused by kite-flying, denouncing the activity as un-Islamic.


Eeerily familiar...

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Cap'n Squirrgle
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Billzebub Wrote:
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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.


I gotta admit, that part got my attention though.

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Pakistan's Supreme Court banned kite-flying nationwide last year in response to an outcry over injuries and deaths.


there is something horribly funny yet extremely surreal about this sentence.
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I don't understand. Are people looking up and falling in holes?
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Cap'n Squirrgle
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I don't understand. Are people looking up and falling in holes?


No, the kites have glass / metal-coated strings, designed to cut through other kites' strings. But if some kid's neck gets in the way...

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No, the kites have glass / metal-coated strings, designed to cut through other kites' strings. But if some kid's neck gets in the way...


...they shoot him.
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i enjoyed the book "kite runner"

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The deaths and injuries were caused by stray bullets, sharpened kite-strings, electrocution and people falling off rooftops...


That is one of the funniest parts of a sentence I have ever read, regardless of context.
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Hegel Wrote:
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The deaths and injuries were caused by stray bullets, sharpened kite-strings, electrocution and people falling off rooftops...


That is one of the funniest parts of a sentence I have ever read, regardless of context.


There's definitely a Scorsese flick in all of this.
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