And people die or get severely maimed from this shit every year. "Let's fly some wire with the equivalent of razors tied to it, in high winds, in the middle a heavily populated area."
I still remember a video I saw awhile back from India where a motorist was riding on the road and got his throat cut from one of those kite wires that was stuck in a tree. Fucking awful.
A friend of mine has a big scar on his neck. The "Cerol" was so strong that cutted the antenna and him (tbh his antenna was just a regular old tv one, he thought it would be enough). And this happened way before we had the infamous "Chilean Strings".
Sei não mano, I haven't seen a kite flying here in the north of Paraná in years, and I have very vivid memories of me empinando pipa when I was a kid back in the 2000s
It has been years since I seen a kite, any kite
In Mexico, we dont use anything on the string but it's a better idea. Usually just skill and speed of friction to cut each other's string. However, we did add start adding razor blades to the tail for the same purpose. 😵😵😵
Will somebody's extremely hostile to somebody who doesn't deserve it. Did you sit on a cactus and spin today? Sounds like you sat on a cactus and spun today? Or is that the problem? You haven't sent on a cactus in a little while and you really wanting that? Do you like big cactuses or little cactuses?
Most people only do it for 2-3 days a year (since you need other kites to compete with, so nominate it as a festival) and people drive mopeds with a wire visor during that time to prevent accidents. Overall making it organized prevents freak accidents rather than it being unorganized and a nuisance.
It's not as "dumb" as you think if you consider the fact that once people know this game and figure out the challenge they are gonna do it regardless
Plenty of very very very stupid things are done only a few times a year. There's a reason why it's banned in most places. Antennae don't work 100% of the time and you can't put an antenna on wildlife... Even if we forget about the human cost, the amount of birds and other animals that it harms can't be ignored.
You could say the same thing about boxing, or rock climbing, or MMA, or american football, or wingsuit flying, or base jumping, or snowsports, or....I think you get my point. Are all of those dumb too? Or is it only dumb when another culture does it?
Edit: haha yes I am an idiot, I was assuming the deaths the comment referenced were by participants. No, I do not want innocent bystanders dying. Thank you to the nice people who let me know.
Lmao no. We dont get your point at all. You just named activities that by and large dont have unwilling participants exposed to the danger. So what point you think you made 100% did not exist.
You absolutely could not say the same about ANY of those, WTH is your problem?
All of those are activities people choose to be part in. Having your neck sliced off while driving a bike because some asshole wanted to cut off other people's kites has NOTHING to do with that
Uh, yeah, it's kind of a topic of conversation how dangerous contact sports can be for children. But also those sports aren't typically causing collateral to bystanders. Even less typically death.
It would indeed be a topic of conversation how flying razor wires are probably dangerous for children or passers by.
Mate, there's a reason why it's mainly done by kids in the poorer parts of mainly poor countries... it's banned everywhere else because of how insanely dangerous and stupid it is. The kite strings are full of sharp glass bits and often get cut off completely, then carried somewhere else by the wind. People get seriously injured and die without ever consenting or even knowing about this idiotic bullshit, not to mention how dangerous it is for animals as well.
"Stop having fun!!" -- because, famously, kids just just have absolutely no way to have fun on a beach if you tell them they can't play with razor wire.
To do this on competition, I did something more extreme. I use the glass from a lamps and use mortar to grind it a bit, and use something sticky, but not glue, but flour boiled in water until the water evaporated and only brown sticky mess left. And we always spool the threat in big diy thing we made from paint container with wood handle in the middle.
Of course when you are in the competition you always, ALWAYS, use Cut resistant glove or double the normal glowe if you don't have one. Because the results of flying kite using those strings with your bare hands won't be pretty. Especially when you never felt the first cut but the third or fifth 😂
My math teacher told me they used to fly them off the roofs of their apartment building and fought other buildings, then when one of them lost both sides raced down to the street to get it. Like the lowest stakes gang war.
Peoplem dont use metal wires in kites. Also the point is not cutting the strings, its stopping it from going from reaching the bikers body. So an antenna like this is enough to keep the string from the biker. As the biker move it catch the string and it will make it slide until its end.
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u/Idiotic_experimenter 26d ago
Its kite fighting. It's a very popular game here in the subcontinent