6 injured in Pamplona's Running of the Bulls

[tawadi]

Source: CBS/AP

July 7, 2012 7:30 AM

(CBS/AP) PAMPLONA, Spain - Thousands took to the narrow city streets of the northern Spanish city of Pamplona, daring to outrun half-ton charging animals with sharp horns. Not all escaped unscathed.

The first running of the bulls of this year's San Fermin festival was held Saturday. It is a Spanish tradition dating to the 14th century.

One elderly thrill-seeker was gored in a leg and five others slightly injured as adrenaline-charged runners, in traditional white clothing and red kerchiefs around their necks, tripped over each other or fell in the mad daredevil annual rush along early morning dew-moistened slippery streets to the city's bull ring.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-33816_162-57468053/6-injured-in-pamplonas-running-of-the-bulls/

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[slackmaster]

1. Stupid is as stupid does.

[NV Whino]

2. Lordy, they're still doing this?

I thought they stopped the run.

[Bluzmann57]

3. If they're stupid enough to run with bulls

They deserve to get gored, stomped, or whatever. It's kind of like living next to the Mississippi River and when it floods complaining that you are wet.

[Auntie Bush]

8. Or if you live along the ocean...expecting taxpayers pay for your expensive insurance

when your home gets washed away in the next hurricane or Nor'easter.

[wordpix]

12. +10000 - Another example of welfare for the 1%

[hack89]

34. 1% ? Don't think so.

I live on an island and most of the houses on the water belong to working class people. It is common where property stays in the family for several generations.

[wordpix]

46. that's the only exception to the 1% rule

[uppityperson]

15. Or you live near woods, house burns in a fire. Or in CA and an earthquake destroys your home or

you live etc etc etc.

Bonus question. Are all homes "live along the ocean" expensive?

[Igel]

27. Yup.

You engage in risky behavior, whatever it is, I guess people are saying you're responsible for any downside to the risks.

I guess I could argue, but there's iced tea waiting.

[struggle4progress]

4. "The San Fermin festival features round-the-clock drinking, with bars allowed to open until 6 AM"

Many injured in opening Pamplona bull run
July 7, 2012
AFP via PTI
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/world/europe/many-injured-opening-pamplona-bull-run-575

[struggle4progress]

7. "The event is huge boon to the local economy"

Annual Running of the Bulls Begins in Spain, 1 Gored
KTLA News
7:32 a.m. PDT, July 7, 2012
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-spain-running-of-the-bulls-injury,0,7686621.story

[backscatter712]

20. I'll bet the local hospitals are happy to see the extra business!

[Igel]

28. Clearly a job creator. n/t

[xtraxritical]

24. Hemingway, who popularized Pamplona bull running, was a dedicated alcoholic too.

Cheers!

[flamingdem]

5. Bully for them

nt

[struggle4progress]

6. "The 8 a.m. runs take place daily until July 14"

6 injured in Spain's Pamplona running of the bulls
Updated at 09:34 AM today
AP By ELSA FRAILE and HAROLD HECKLE
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/national_world&id=8728259

[Submariner]

9. Wimps! --- The Most Interesting Man in the World runs TOWARDS the Bulls

[Lars39]

16. Truly.

Those that do so are considered a bit braver.

[Vinca]

10. Idiots. Score 6 for the bulls.

[primavera]

21. What's funny is that the bulls only got one of them

The other five were injured by the other runners. Which species is the more dangerous here? Perhaps the event ought to be renamed the Running of the Dangerous Idiots.

[Warpy]

26. Well, one for the bulls

and five for their fellow drunken idiots.

[awoke_in_2003]

35. A temporary victory, though...

aren't they later killed in the ring?

[Ian David]

11. Viva los toros! n/t

[wordpix]

13. animal abuse

[RebelOne]

17. Yup, gotta agree with that. n/t

[bluedigger]

14. Not too bad.

What was the over/under?

[DearAbby]

18. Can we send in some Teabaggers, as reserves?

We can still win this thing!!!

[backscatter712]

19. ¡Olé!

I always root for the bulls!

[emilyg]

22. Stupid people. Go bulls!

[Zoeisright]

23. Now there's evolution in action.

[underpants]

25. I regret not breaking Army rules and going while I was stationed over there

they know the risks. Man, that would have been a BLAST!!

[a la izquierda]

31. I'm going next year...

and I cannot wait.

I will not run, however, I'll just watch.

[Skittles]

33. why?

WHY do you think tormenting animals for entertainment is a swell idea? WHY???

[Son of Gob]

38. You don't think taunting an animal on the way to it's violent demise is fun?

You probably never even killed neighborhood pets as a child. Typical.


















Unnecessary tag

[a la izquierda]

39. Umm, I'm a vegetarian, so please don't lecture me about tormenting animals.

I haven't eaten meat for over 13 years. For animal rights' reasons.

These are not bullfights (at least not at the point of the running), the bulls usually win, and I'm a historian of Latin America and, by extension, of Spain (I'm also Spanish, as recently discovered through genealogical research). I'm a cultural historian, and culture- no matter how abhorrent Americans might find it- interests me. I generally try not to judge other cultures' peculiarities (my main area of focus is indigenous peoples of Mexico, in which I commonly deal with the spectre of human sacrifice). I'm pretty good at compartmentalizing things.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

29. Cultural differences aside, fuck with the bull and you get the horn.

Don't want to rain on the annual wonderfulness of something so far outside the boundaries of my world that I can't pretend I "get it," but the single easiest way in the world to not get injured by a bull is to not fuck with a bull.

It's true.

I looked it up.

[backscatter712]

30. I wonder about their thought processes.

"Let's get drunk, dress up in white and red bandannas, and run in front of enraged bulls! What could possibly go wrong?"

[Skittles]

32. these people torment animals for entertainment

they are SICKENING

[awoke_in_2003]

36. the runners don't...

the matadors, on the other hand... And yes, I think bull "fighting" is disgusting.

[Skittles]

37. ???? the runners don't????

I BEG TO DIFFER

[awoke_in_2003]

40. How do the runners...

torture the bulls? They are trying to avoid them. I will agree that how the bulls are dealt with after the run is barbaric.

[tawadi]

41. Allow me to add some additional info for you (warning-graphic)

http://www.standardmadness.com/offbeat/running-of-the-bulls-pics-gore-warning

And on edit, a youtube video for you:

[awoke_in_2003]

43. Work firewall blocked the link...

I will check it when I get home. I saw the video, though. I wasn't aware of the taunting once they enter the ring. The people looked like a bunch of hyenas harassing an old lion. Not cool.

On edit: thanks for the enlightenment

[Skittles]

44. it is SO not cool

those people are sickening - you are above that kind of senseless garbage

[Brigid]

42. I think I'll try something safer.

Like walking around a Taliban-controlled village in Afghanistan without a burqua.

[CTyankee]

45. Interesting town. I was there in Oct. 2008 (no bulls then). It is an affluent town with very

nicely dressed people and really beautiful. The town is serene and charming. The local bar (in a graceful old hotel on the town square) has a statue of Hemingway actually standing at the bar! It was quite a sight! It seems that Hemingway wrote "Death in the Afternoon" there.

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