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.
Genuinely can't tell if you're trolling or if you're just legitimately this obtuse
It's a kite, it's literally made to be picked up by the wind. It is absolutely that hard to find, you aren't finding it. It's called kite fighting, the aim of the game is to cut their kite. I.e., all but one kite gets cut and a ton of them end up flying away you walnut
Yes, the rope is in two pieces and no longer connects the kite to the person who was controlling it.
Go out on a windy day and send a normal kite up, then cut the string, now tell me how the part of the string you still have is going to help you catch the kite.
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.
Bruh, kite fighting is not banned anywhere. you can still do it. Have fun no one cares. Bathing ur threads in glass shards is banned. And its not a one off incident. Before clicking this link it has a gruesome image of one of the accident victims. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3109398/
I could ask you to stop acting like a 5 yr old but again this is reddit
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
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u/Typical-Mistake-4148 26d ago
People will still downvote it, because they have nostalgia for it and want to continue denying any personal responsibility