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The kite knocked off Mires' hat, then a cord wrapped around the neck of his 10-year-old daughter, Tapanga, who had waded over for a better look. Mires, quickly untangled the cord and freed her.
“All I could see mentally . . . was that it could cut her at the neck or worse,” Mires said. “I thought. 'Oh my God. I have to get her out of it.' It bounced again and more wires came down on her but I got her.”
After the incident, Mires' father, also named Ron Mires, wrote a letter to the general manager of the Coronado Cays, who forwarded the letter to city officials. The letter was then sent to state parks officials, who began working with the Coronado Cays Home Owners Association and kite surfers to come up with the new rules.
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If that 10yr old had been seriously hurt or killed they no doubt be coming up with a ban instead of just rules...