You’re just a visitor to the National Mall and you want to fly your kite on a sunny day, you want to see the sails puff in the wind, rising into the sky, soaring and fluttering, the long colorful tail bebopping in the breeze, but if your kite flies too close to the Washington Monument then secret service agents draw their handheld mini lasers and cut your line and your kite plummets and crashes into the trees. There aren’t just a few kite wreckages, there are hundreds strewn about in the trees because we can’t have kites, possibly weaponized, flying too close to our treasured monuments.
