Bannination

Every year, Pakistanis gather to kill each other with kites. After international attention last year, they decided to ban it. That didn't work out so well, apparently...

At least 11 people died and more than 100 people were injured at an annual spring festival in eastern Pakistan celebrated with the flying of thousands of colorful kites, officials said Monday.

The festival is regularly marred by casualties caused by sharp kite strings or celebratory gunshots fired into the air. Kite flyers often use strings made of wire or coated with ground glass to try to cross and cut a rival's string or damage the other kite, often after betting on the outcome.

But it was banned wasn't it? What happened? Did people ignore the ban? Well, not exactly...

Authorities temporarily lifted a ban on kite flying that was imposed following a string of deaths at the festival last year. Lahore Mayor Mian Amier Mahmood said the two-day permission to fly kites ended Sunday and that the ban has been re-imposed.

I'd volunteer to go over and assist them in understanding the concept of a "ban," but I can't say I've any real problem with the current state of affairs. Uncle Chucky likes.