Regulating the Deadly Sport of Kite Flying
The rising death toll among kite enthusiasts in Pakistan has prompted the country's Supreme Court to extend its ban on making, selling and flying kites. It seems that in the provincal capital of Lahore, kites are flown from the roofs of houses and that leads to plummeting, impact, and death. In addition, some kite flyers employ metal strings in an effort to cut the lines tied to other people's kites. In so doing, however, they often end up cutting each other or power lines. On one Karachi Web forum, reaction is mixed. One commenter favors regulation because kite flying "turns into a collective exercise in decadence" while others are less enthusiastic. Pakistan's effort to curb kite casualties recalls the bloody beginnings of full-contact minature golf, now thankfully banned in the U.S.
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