NYC Sued for Allowing 'Kite Fighting'
source: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/queens/teen_throat_slashed_by_fighting_NJo7MZuqPjlGhN7cQa...
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The South Asian sport of kite-fighting -- featured in the book and movie "The Kite Runner" -- nearly cost a skateboarding Queens boy his life when a razor-sharp wire sliced his throat, according to a lawsuit.
Jared Kopeloff was skateboarding outside his Flushing co-op apartment building in October 2009 when he was clotheslined by a downed kite string.
The glass-encrusted wire ripped into the then-12-year-old's throat and left him scarred from ear to ear from a wound his lawyer said took 400 to 500 stitches to close. The boy also lost two lymph nodes in the accident.
Now his family is suing the city for allowing the kite fights to take place in nearby Flushing Meadows Park and the co-op complex for failing to remove the wire that was left hanging between two buildings after getting severed in a duel and drifting over to the complex.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/queens/teen_throat_slashed_by_fighting_NJo7MZ...
Jared Kopeloff was skateboarding outside his Flushing co-op apartment building in October 2009 when he was clotheslined by a downed kite string.
The glass-encrusted wire ripped into the then-12-year-old's throat and left him scarred from ear to ear from a wound his lawyer said took 400 to 500 stitches to close. The boy also lost two lymph nodes in the accident.
Now his family is suing the city for allowing the kite fights to take place in nearby Flushing Meadows Park and the co-op complex for failing to remove the wire that was left hanging between two buildings after getting severed in a duel and drifting over to the complex.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/queens/teen_throat_slashed_by_fighting_NJo7MZ...
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Gavinvalmont
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well, if anything the city sould punk out its citizens buy paying the suit and more to the family and outlaw skateboarding and not do anything to kite flying... personaly kite flying is fun to watch and skateboarding is great during the X games but in the city you only watch to see people fall down its sad but you would save people teeth and now throaght :(
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Gavinvalmont
