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Two children, one man killed as glass-laced kite strings slit throats in Delhi
Washington Post ^
| 17 Aug 2016
| Max Bearak
Posted on 08/17/2016 9:07:08 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Been around a LOOONG time.
We had these strings in Asia since before I was born.
Kite-fighting was a thing.
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posted on
08/17/2016 9:57:45 AM PDT
by
buwaya
To: buwaya
But somehow they managed to clean up their kite string afterwards didn’t they? Or they would have gotten what for at home. People were taught to care about their neighbors.
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posted on
08/17/2016 10:10:18 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
This story sounds bogus to me. I grew up coating ground glass on kite strings. I did have several cuts on my fingers but they were never more than 1 mm deep. To slit someone's throat, the person had to be held down by force and several hundred yards long string pulled around his throat. Simply getting tangled won't cause cuts deeper than 1 mm. On "Sakrant" day in January, my town had half a million kites in the sky, cutting off strings of other flying kites. It was the the most exciting day in life of us as teenagers. More exciting than Diwali, Christmas and New Years, combined.
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posted on
08/17/2016 10:13:54 AM PDT
by
entropy12
(The GOPe are either Globalists pushing cheap labor express or are perma-neocons.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
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posted on
08/17/2016 10:20:15 AM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Never heard of this before.
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posted on
08/17/2016 10:27:54 AM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
( Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
08/17/2016 10:30:15 AM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
( Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
08/17/2016 10:46:49 AM PDT
by
Ray76
(Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo!)
To: Mr. Douglas
That’s not what the article said.
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posted on
08/17/2016 10:50:31 AM PDT
by
TigersEye
(~Our government lies and the media helps them.~)
To: TigersEye
My bad. I’m guilty of responding to a headline and excerpt.
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posted on
08/17/2016 10:55:21 AM PDT
by
Mr. Douglas
(Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
To: Mr. Douglas
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posted on
08/17/2016 10:56:09 AM PDT
by
TigersEye
(~Our government lies and the media helps them.~)
To: DUMBGRUNT
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posted on
08/17/2016 10:57:25 AM PDT
by
Organic Panic
(Hillary Clinton, the elderly woman's version of "I dindu nuffins.")
To: DUMBGRUNT
In other news, razor-edged frisbee decapitates man in park.
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posted on
08/17/2016 11:00:39 AM PDT
by
ETL
(God PLEASE help America...ASAP!)
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
I can only guess, that in the past a short section of ‘homemade cutting string’ was used.
Now it is mass produced and weighs less, allowing for longer sections to be deployed?
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posted on
08/17/2016 11:17:26 AM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
(Looks like it's pretty hairy.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Typical string I used from age 10-18 was several hundred yards long, and very strong. It was very hard to break it by hand. To coat it with abrasive mixture of ground glass, wheat paste and liquid glue, I strung it around 2 telephone poles about 50 yards apart. One reel of new string would require me to wrap the string a dozen times or more around the 2 poles. Then I had to wait 3-4 hours until the coating was dry. After that it was reeled in on a large reel with a handle on each side. Usually my fingers would be cut at several knuckle joints handling the string. Yeah yeah teenagers do some crazy things.
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posted on
08/17/2016 11:29:40 AM PDT
by
entropy12
(The GOPe are either Globalists pushing cheap labor express or are perma-neocons.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
Different story from the lede story here maybe. This sounds like careless kite flyers who left pieces of this sharp string behind entangled in tree branches or wires over a roadway, and did not mention anybody actually being accused. I didn't read far enough in the story. I got to the part in the Hindu times story I saw, “A case of negligence has been registered in both incidents and investigation has begun, police said.” I assumed that this meant that this was at least partially intentional. To me it seems somewhat unlikely that string embedded with glass would stay suspended at neck height across roadways in several different locations causing injuries. That seems like more of a freak accident type of situation and not something that all of a sudden causes multiple similar incidents. String embedded with glass has been around for hundreds of years. I remember reading about this sport when I was a kid and even how to make the string. All of a sudden we have many injuries and three fatalities in one day. Maybe a Chinese entrepreneur came out with a stronger sharper variety. But it still seems suspicious to me and possibly connected to social media.
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posted on
08/17/2016 11:35:58 AM PDT
by
fireman15
(The USA will be toast if the Democrats are able to take the Presidency in 2016)
To: dfwgator
One of my favorite sketches...
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posted on
08/17/2016 12:07:56 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
To: DUMBGRUNT
What's this I hear about flying kites in a deli??
There's is not enough room in a deli to fly a kite!
I'm not surprised someone got hurt!
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posted on
08/17/2016 12:42:22 PM PDT
by
ETL
(God PLEASE help America...ASAP!)
To: ETL
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posted on
08/17/2016 12:46:22 PM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
No idea. As far as I know no-one ever got hurt with this (Manila, other provinces).
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posted on
08/17/2016 12:52:37 PM PDT
by
buwaya
To: ETL
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posted on
08/17/2016 1:09:35 PM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
(Looks like it's pretty hairy.)
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