.........HA ha!!!
Posted on 10/15/2019 8:56:18 PM PDT by Enterprise
He probably received a transfusion pretty quickly.
Amen
According to the link, this is the second time he was gored by a bull this year. Maybe bullfighting isn’t his true calling in life.
I’m guessing he is the coddled son of some incredibly wealthy or well connected Spanish family. I don’t imagine Spain is that hard up for matadors that the stadium actually needed to call up the guy with fresh stitches in his leg from the last goring to dress up like a disco ball and ritually slaughter an animal for entertainment this week.
I don’t understand bullfighting as an attraction. Beyond the cruelty to the bull, who always dies, it’s the same schtick each time. It would be like going to a movie theater that only ever showed one movie for hundreds of years. Even Broadway switches up the plays every now and again.
To me, this "sport" is abhorrent and despicable. It's live torture and bleeding of a dumb animal for fools.
I’m surprised they get the new blood into him quickly enough. His blood pressure must have been nil.
I had a neighbor who had a ‘pet bison’ who later gored him- he survived it for awhile, but the infections that crept in did him in- it was a nasty goring-
Bullfighting has always seemed a game for those who do not ponder.
I am going to guess that they were giving him blood while he was still losing blood. A family member had an operation and she received 6 pints of blood and was not in a severe risk, because they were able to add blood faster than she was leaking. It just took a while to find all of the leaks.
Tough break. It’s the nearest thing to gladiators fighting tigers or bears that we can see in the modern era. Mano o mano (hand to hand) combat between a man and and a beast between 5 to 8 times his weight. Anyone who thinks this is ritualized slaughter hasn’t seen how helpless animals are when they are killed for meat at the grocery store. This, in contrast, is spectacle - a throwback to the days when man put his life on the line every time he went after (or was attacked, for territorial reasons by) large game, with little more than an edged weapon the length of his arm to separate him from his adversary.
I condemn this “sport.”
[I condemn this “sport.”]
Before condemning bullfighting, read “Death in the Afternoon” by Ernest Hemingway.
I’m kind of neutral about the sport. It’s not part of my culture, so I don’t give it much thought.
Spanish fighting bulls are a breed apart, however. They’re bred for aggressiveness.
An ordinary farm bull that exhibited those traits would be sent to slaughter rather quickly.
Although I didn’t grow up on a farm, I spent several years editing an agricultural newspaper, during which I learned much more than I did in college.
Early on, a professor from our state ag school gave me a rookie tutorial on how to behave around cattle. Don’t turn your back on them, always have an exit, and don’t do anything that might startle them. The calmer you are around them, the better they’ll like you.
It was good advice. When I think of bulls, I think of an afternoon I spent with Cody the Polled Hereford bull and his owner. Cody was lord of the pasture, with his harem all around him, along with the adorable calves he had sired. Truly a gentle giant.
If you put Cody in that bullfighting ring, he’d use some sense and beat a retreat every time the matador waved his cape.
I lost that much in a botched operation 20 years ago.
Took me 10 months to get up to maybe 75% of my enrgy back and two years before i was working out again at full speed.
Reminds of the the joke about matadors. The punchline , after getting two shriveled meatballs served is ‘Senor , sometimes the bull wins!
Oh well.
Now he knows how the bull feels.
So I guess he is now a Senorita?
An Indy Driver once
Told Me that there are
just three sports,
Car Racing,
Mountain Climbing and
Bullfighting.
Play stupid games, win... you know.
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