Don't you love playing with kites, having them soar for hours up in the breezy blue sky? Well those in Pakistan enjoy it as well, just with a twist. Evidently they also enjoy lacing the kite string with glass in order to slash other kites in competition during the annual Basant Festival. It also killed 19 people last year in Lahore, Pakistan. In order to prevent these fatalities, police have arrested 1400 people violating the ban on flying kites. I never associated kites with killing, but that was before I read about a girl getting her neck slashed from glass on a stray kite while riding with her father on a motorcycle.

-Trevor