AHMEDABAD: This was Peter Lynn 's 600th international kite festival. This kite-flyer from New Zealand got the taste of Gujarat's Uttarayan celebrations in a rude way on Monday.Known among the world's kite manufacturers, Lynn was flying two inflated tiger-shaped kites, each worth $400, on the banks of Sabarmati in the morning when a puny paper kite came from across the river and slashed his tigers.The loud music on the west bank of the river where Gujarat was hosting the 2011 international kite festival, drownedthe slum-dwellers' screams on the opposite bank. They realised what they had done only when the police came looking for them.The New Zealander, who has also judged one of the kite contests in the festival, told TOI, "I refuse to be part of a festival where my kites are attacked by others flying with strings which has glass pieces. I have kites which are worth thousands of dollars and I can't lose them to boys on the other side of the river".The Uttarayan festival in Gujarat is all about cutting each other's kites, but in this case, it was far more serious. Most foreigners brought their kites down after the incident.At least 200 kite-flyers from 36 countries and 10 Indian states are participating in the festival. Lynn said, "this is crazy and happens nowhere. An Indian fighter kite attacked my tigers and before I could realise what was happening their strings entwined my kites".One of his kites fell on the festival pavilion and another grounded far away and was found only after an hour. The police went to the opposite bank and scolded the slum boys."We stopped flying for 30 minutes and started again after the fighter kite was pulled down and the police began guarding the other bank," said Rami Al Khal, a participant from Lebanon.