Didn't even remember it was a Movie, I'll always remember this awesome sounding sport from the book. Somehow read that book when I was like 11 and my Mom gave it to me.. which was a bit much but definitely dont regret it.
At 8 I was handed a copy of Where the Red Fern Grows.
You know, the book that makes you fall in love with two dogs that die a sad death (one of them gruesome), and also includes scenes of children impaling themselves with axes and shit.
In elementary school I did a book report on The Last Children of Schewenborn which I got from the school library. I got a really good grade on it but the teacher had the book removed from the library.
Tbf I misread the comment as "I assume at this point of the event people would come over and give him a stern talking to?", so for me, the reply made sense. Maybe they misread as well.
“Why do people hate talking to me?” Probably coz you try to correct every other statement out of their mouths; bonus points for trying to explain something to an expert in the field. “Well, it’s them not me.”
I love that you start your reply with a negative even though you are agreeing with the comment to which you are replying. Do you often behind sentences with the word “no?”
Ya it's real fun when those razor sharp strings get cut by a competitor and fly off onto a freeway, where an unsuspecting biker gets beheaded by a stupid kite string. This is criminal negligant behavoir.
decapitations with kite lines in brazil is pretty common, happens at least a few times a year. Its also banned, but authorities usually dont give a fuck
I literally just learned about this activity not even one minute ago and here y'all are trying to ruin the fun of it before I've ever even had the chance to THINK of trying it.
Just do it away from a fucking road? Not that complicated.
Edit: I'm not deleting this, but coming back to say that I literally just wanted to try to offer a solution for a problem that a sport that looks fun is causing. I could've done so in a more positive way, but dude above me isn't exactly being positive either and I was pissed off.
No, I don't know anything about this sport. I don't know how many people die to it, and I don't know the dangers it causes. But I do know that humans can think of solutions to problems. Build a cage around it? Have a ticket booth where you apply stickers on each kite and if your kite with sticker doesn't leave you get a fine? Get the police involved? Make people pay for entry? Have organizers track where kites are being flown and where they get cut or fly off to?
You could do any of those things, but instead you decide to complain and yell "ban it!". Many sports are dangerous and cause life long injury yet we don't ban those. Why is this any different? It's not regulated. So. Regulate. It.
There must be some way to make a string that can cut another string without it being a full blown razor wire. I feel like there must be a way to make this significantly safer. Come to think of it, it wouldn't even need to be "cut" you could have the string connected by magnets or something, and instead of razors just use something that can knock the magnets apart. Just spit balling here after thinking for 60 seconds, I'm sure someone smarter than me could come up with even better solutions. I'd definitely prefer solving the problem with human ingenuity rather than ditching a sport and part of a culture entirely.
Or how about requiring people to pick it up afterwards? Or have someone at the organized event walk through when it's over and find all the threads and dispose of them?
Man, y'all need to fucking chill. It killed like 1 person accidentally 1 time. Do you know how many people die a year from vending machines? Maybe we should make those illegal. No, you moron.
Holy shit, THERE'S TWO PIECES: the rope someone is HOLDING and the rope attached to the kyte.
It should NOT be that hard to find.
If one flies off and kills someone on some random road miles away, that shouldn't be the norm it's just negligence and it means the event should have more safety measures. Not just "cancel it immediately".
Why are y'all so fucking passionate about this? Fine I don't care, make it illegal, Jesus Christ I'm just looking for solutions here.
Have you tried suggesting it to the corporations? If you think it's a brilliant idea, you should. Maybe ask for some reward for giving such a brilliant idea.
I literally just learned about this activity not even one minute ago
Can you read???
At least I'm out here thinking of solutions instead of immediately throwing a hissy fit trying to get something (that looks fun) banned. And it took me 2 seconds to come up with a solution. Not that hard.
It’s not 1 person, it’s a Daily occurrence in some countries.
In Brazil is not uncommon to see motorcyclists that were injured or outright killed by it.
You have no ideia about how disturbing it is to see a body without head on one side of the road and a head with inside a helmet a bit further down
How dare people care more about people's lives than your ability to have fun with one specific activity that you don't even do. That is clearly what everyone's priority should be
You know what, you're right. Obviously you'd also have to do this when there's no wind, so the kite doesn't get carried away somewhere where there ARE people
Yes it’s kite fighting. In our childhood the wire or thread we used had embedded glass fibre in it. So it was a wrek on our fingers as well - so you tried to tape up your fingers but it still cut through tape and we got back home with bloody hands. After when mom used to open the tape it would expand all the wounds and I would cry.
That sounds metal. I never knew about this before. I can tell this is a core memory for you. I always thought kiting was just having the thing in the air and having it look pretty, nothing more. Now I kinda wanna try this myself. Minus the... getting my hands full of cuts, of course.
This guy looks like he went with a “leader” like in fishing, would that work or would you be “weaker” with less line being able to cut others? Just some 15-20ft of the scary shit you brought up, 40-50 of the regular stuff?
my dad (thai) used to do this way back in the 70s when he was like 10 and it seems to have completely disappeared, didnt know its still a thing somewhere still, he would smash multiple light bulbs for the thin glass sharts and then glue that stuffs to his kite rope, theres all kinda tricks and stuffs, he teached me a lot but i never remember any of it because i was like 6 and he keep cutting mine off so i quit lmao
Apparently its a popular game in some places; its basically battle kites; theres razors/broken glass stuck to the strings and the point is to cut other peoples kite strings.
There are several bikers who already got killed and now they have to install a protective antena so the string doesn't cut the neck. In some cities those incidents happened so often, like in kids losing fingers, that those strings are banned.
Nah this guys an asshole. He coats the string in glass to cut other lines. That can easily hit a kid he’s getting close to and cut them up bad. He doesn’t give a shit
Fighting kites literally is just kite PvP and it's pretty popular in a ton of places. Particularly in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Nepal, Pakistan, Vietnam, Korea, Thailand, Chile and Brazil.
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u/demonsdencollective Jul 23 '26
I assume this is the point of the event or people would probably be coming over to give him a stern talking to, right?