mad_asshatter@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 29 days agoPlaything or peril? Brazilian kites are endangering lives and prompting a push for a national ban | AP Newsapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up145arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareChicoSuave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down3·29 days agoMy dad told me stories about kite fighting and showed me how to use glue and glass on the string to make a knife that would cut the other line. It’s not a sport that’s directly harmful unless you try to grab the string.
minus-squarespittingimage@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·29 days agoOr unless a kite with a cut line drifts into power lines, or helicopter rotors, or traffic, or a factory smokestack…
My dad told me stories about kite fighting and showed me how to use glue and glass on the string to make a knife that would cut the other line. It’s not a sport that’s directly harmful unless you try to grab the string.
Or unless a kite with a cut line drifts into power lines, or helicopter rotors, or traffic, or a factory smokestack…