What is this talking about? Cutting lines have been banned for decades already.
Banning something does not always fix the problem of its use. Per the article, there's a sizable sporting contingent with competitions being common. If there's money and fun in it, it doesn't go away just because the government says you can't do it anymore.
The article also mentions lots of local bans, and that the practice remains popular regardless. Motorcyclists still get cut by the lines, sometimes fatally, but there isn't any formal data collection to categorize the lines as a cause of death.
I'm sad nobody mentions the Indian fighter kites (at least the documentary I watched as a kid showed India, but the Wiki mentions more countries).
The Kite Runner is a great book that describes this but in Afghanistan.
Ah yes! I remember that one too, nice catch :)
Aerial battle bots!
Which, now that I think about it, could probably be done (or has been done?) these days with drones...
"Woah... Brutal..."
-Nathan Explosion
