Posted on 01/18/2023 2:38:15 PM PST by BusterDog
SIX people were horrifically sliced to death by glass-encrusted kite strings after a blood-drenched festival in India.
Three children, including a baby, are among the dead after the day of celebration in Gujarat turned sinister on Saturday.
(Excerpt) Read more at the-sun.com ...
Still safer than the ragheads circling their Moon rock...
Yeah, there is a significant portion of the earth's population that hasn't figure out that old action/consequence thing.
lived in Brazil as a child and we used to fight with kites. Gluing broken glass on our kite string to cut other folks kite strings, and then you win their kite. Kind of cool kite fighting.
“Weird customs there in the subcontinent.”
Interesting fact: India has only one third the land mass of the United States and four times the number of people.
Nothing new here had a boss my first year out of college from India. He grew up kite “fighting”. Basically where he lived kids on one side of the river tried to cut the strings of kites from other side of the river. It’s what they did growing up.
Never told me it was part of any festival, just what they did.
No wonder it has that distinctive odor.
It's always interesting, the white westerners who imagine India as some transcendental, meditative paradise. They book "spiritual retreat" vacations only to witness Indians lighting elephants on fire for sport and other such monstrosities and then return chanting under their breath, "F*** India!"
survival of the fittest...
LOL I was talking to a guy who is a FedEx international pilot.
Asked him where the worst place is to fly into.
He said Delhi, you get the sh*t smell as soon as you get below 10,000 feet.
On a Navy deployment we anchored a couple of miles outside of Karachi, Pakistan for a couple of days while some crew members attending an event.
I'm thankful we didn't pull in for a port call.
From two miles out that whole city stunk. Pollution like you wouldn't believe and the stench of rot and decay hung in the air.
Bloated, dead livestock bumped up against the side of the ship.
I'd imagine India is quite similar. In fact, this story could've just as easily come from Pakistan.
How people live like this, I'll never understand.
“It’s always interesting, the white westerners who imagine India as some transcendental, meditative paradise.”
You can blame The Beatles for that.
My favorite author is Mark Twain. I’ve been reading Twain since I was a kid (and I’m now in my 70s). His travel books are classics. His “Following the Equator” addresses his experiences in India. It is a hoot!
I’m a history buff, and always have been (my university degree is in history). I went through a period when I devoured books on the Great Mutiny of 1857 (I still have about a half dozen in one of my bookcases, that I have kept through the years). The slaughter of the English women and children at Cawnpore. The butcher of the Europeans at Delhi. Dark stuff.
The ones that could walk away.
I’m used to calm breezes and fluffy clouds when I fly my kites. Been doing it now since I remember 1969. Never have needed razor wire kite string or even heard of anyone dieing doing it let alone horrifically.
I really do think that our cultures may be slightly different.
We really need 50 million of these non-Christian peoples imported into America immediately so they can enrich us and steal your jobs - Sen. Mike Lee.
I’m a big Twain fan, too, since childhood. I just reread The Innocents Abroad, and now I might have to reread Following the Equator. I also like Kipling’s Indian stories.
Did you ever read Flashman in the Great Game, by George MacDonald Fraser? Historical fiction set in the Great Mutiny, and of course Flashman is right in the middle of things.
Is this for real?
Sounds like a screenplay for a schlocky horror movie.
So why glass encrusted? Pretty glitter?
“Did you ever read Flashman in the Great Game, by George MacDonald Fraser?”
No; I haven’t. Thanks for the head’s up. I’ll have to check it out. I know of Fraser, though. There was a whole series of Flashman books, right?
The hajj is June 26th-July 1st this year. Any bets on how many people are trampled to death? I say between 100-200.
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