Tuesday, February 27, 2007
You Gotta Be Shitting Me Here.
Did I read that newspaper article correctly?
No way. Somebody put a trick newspaper on my driveway this morning. Yeah, that's it.
But wait, it's not April Fools for another month. And this paper looks pretty real.
Impossible!
There is an article in today's paper about the deaths of eleven people in Pakistan. Eleven. That's a one, followed by another one. E-Freakin'-leven dead people.
A riot, you ask? No. Mass murderer? Negative. Cholera outbreak? Nope. Flood? Famine? Apartment building fire? Earthquake? Huge traffic pileup? No, no, no, no, no.
Eleven people are dead, along with 100 more injured in Lahore, Pakistan as a result of a Kite Festival. Yes, I said a Kite Festival. You know, a child's toy, made up of paper, balsa, wood, string, and a tail. A Kite Festival.
And what's even scarier is that it's not unusual. The festival is "regularly marred by casualties." It seems these geniuses use sharp wire strings, or strings coated with ground glass, in an effort to damage opponents' kites. I guess the occasional decapitation is all just part of the fun.
They also like to shoot guns into the air to celebrate. What goes up must come down. That's why we have "Shannon's Law" here in Arizona. Sounds to me like they need a "Sanjrani's Law" over there.
These people have nuclear weapons. They're supposed to be helping us in the war against terrorism. Maybe they should hold the "First Annual Al Qaeda Kite Flying Invitational." At least that would be progress.
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No way. Somebody put a trick newspaper on my driveway this morning. Yeah, that's it.
But wait, it's not April Fools for another month. And this paper looks pretty real.
Impossible!
There is an article in today's paper about the deaths of eleven people in Pakistan. Eleven. That's a one, followed by another one. E-Freakin'-leven dead people.
A riot, you ask? No. Mass murderer? Negative. Cholera outbreak? Nope. Flood? Famine? Apartment building fire? Earthquake? Huge traffic pileup? No, no, no, no, no.
Eleven people are dead, along with 100 more injured in Lahore, Pakistan as a result of a Kite Festival. Yes, I said a Kite Festival. You know, a child's toy, made up of paper, balsa, wood, string, and a tail. A Kite Festival.
And what's even scarier is that it's not unusual. The festival is "regularly marred by casualties." It seems these geniuses use sharp wire strings, or strings coated with ground glass, in an effort to damage opponents' kites. I guess the occasional decapitation is all just part of the fun.
They also like to shoot guns into the air to celebrate. What goes up must come down. That's why we have "Shannon's Law" here in Arizona. Sounds to me like they need a "Sanjrani's Law" over there.
These people have nuclear weapons. They're supposed to be helping us in the war against terrorism. Maybe they should hold the "First Annual Al Qaeda Kite Flying Invitational." At least that would be progress.
