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Mexico: Two female bullfighters viciously gored by animal weighing half a ton
ibt ^ | 12-29-2014 | Thomas Wyke

Posted on 12/29/2014 9:00:33 AM PST by Citizen Zed

Two female Mexican bullfighters, one a single mother competing for the first time in three years, have been gored in a bloody annual festival.

The two fighters, Karla de los Angeles and Lupita Lopez, were taking part in an all-women event called the "festejo de damas", alongside Hilda Tenorio. The event was staged at one of the world's biggest bullrings, Plaza Mexico.

De los Angeles, one of Mexico's best-known female bullfighters, was fighting for the first time since she withdrew from the sport in 2011 to look after her young daughter.

Before the fight, she had spoken of her dream of becoming a matador - a master bullfighter - and made national headlines by saying "being a mother is not an impediment".

During her fight, the 25-year-old was struck twice by the bull, known as Gamusino. The first injury came when the animal tossed the fighter over its head as she went for the killer blow.

(Excerpt) Read more at ibtimes.co.uk ...


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To: MrEdd
I remember when "The Wide World of Sports" or the like would show bull fights.

Frankly, after watching it once, I found it quite boring, and really don't know what the attraction is.

21 posted on 12/29/2014 9:17:35 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: Citizen Zed

The worldwide WarOnWimmin™ is unrelenting. All males everywhere are complicit.


22 posted on 12/29/2014 9:19:05 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: Citizen Zed

is there ever a goring that isn’t vicious?

Love, Kid


23 posted on 12/29/2014 9:21:04 AM PST by NonValueAdded (Pointing out dereliction of duty is NOT fear mongering, especially in a panDEMic)
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To: Citizen Zed

Barbaric sport. An indication of their “superior culture”.


24 posted on 12/29/2014 9:21:53 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Citizen Zed

Screw with the bull, ya get the horns.

Bull 2, female matadors 0.


25 posted on 12/29/2014 9:24:15 AM PST by ScottinVA (We either destroy ISIS there... or fight them here. Pick one, America.)
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To: Citizen Zed

I always root for the bulls. Same with the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona.


26 posted on 12/29/2014 9:25:06 AM PST by gdani (Ebola exposed the U.S. as fearful, easy-to-manipulate weaklings)
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To: Citizen Zed

Wasn’t vicious at all, just horny.


27 posted on 12/29/2014 9:27:09 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Beowulf9
The bull wins. Good.

Back in the 1980's while vacationing in Acapulco, I went to a bullfight and had to walk out halfway thru the slow slaughter of the first bull

It's barbaric and should be banned.......

28 posted on 12/29/2014 9:32:45 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (I'm a man of no-color and proud of it.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Thought I had heard that Mexico did ban it. At least the part about the bullfighters killing the bull. They did not ban the part about the bull could kill the bullfighters.


29 posted on 12/29/2014 9:42:41 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Has anyone ever been “politely” gored?


30 posted on 12/29/2014 9:46:49 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Citizen Zed

Anyone who tortures animals for fun or profit deserves the horns.


31 posted on 12/29/2014 9:49:41 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the libs say we are.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Thought I had heard that Mexico did ban it.

I hope they did.......

As a side note, remember when ABC's Wide World of Sports used to televise the bull fights in Spain? I remember watching them as a kid and not giving a thought to them.......

That was until I witnessed the one I mentioned above.....

32 posted on 12/29/2014 9:49:57 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (I'm a man of no-color and proud of it.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

By bulls of great culture?


33 posted on 12/29/2014 9:50:11 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Citizen Zed

And hope fills me for the bull


34 posted on 12/29/2014 9:50:30 AM PST by pallmallman (Q)
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To: tired&retired

Well, the bull “HORNED” into the festival. (Bah Bah Boom!)


35 posted on 12/29/2014 9:54:05 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: Citizen Zed

no pics? what the heck?


36 posted on 12/29/2014 9:54:10 AM PST by getitright (If you call this HOPE, can we give despair a shot?)
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To: MrEdd

I wonder if it is as disgustingly cruel as when I was a kid.

Mexico was a cruel and brutal place, starving abused dogs in the villages, walls with broken glass embedded in the top, burglar bars on family’s windows, street hustlers, and street urchins, and paying men to watch your car while you entered a store 10 feet away, and then their proud national sport, the horrors of bullfighting.

Did they ever reduce the torture and cruelty in the arena spectacle?


37 posted on 12/29/2014 10:05:12 AM PST by ansel12 (They hate us, because they ain't us.)
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To: gdani

“I always root for the bulls. Same with the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona.”

I always hope that the bulls in Pamplona score big. Always makes for a great Darwin Awards contestant.


38 posted on 12/29/2014 10:05:19 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Groupthink is torture. Arrest liberal college professors.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
An interesting refresher course—includes India and Zimbabwe!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullfighting

39 posted on 12/29/2014 10:05:36 AM PST by Does so (SCOTUS Newbies Imperil USA...)
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To: gdani
I always root for the bulls.


40 posted on 12/29/2014 10:07:11 AM PST by dfwgator
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