Boy trampled by bull in Longmont dies (Rodeo tragedy)

Denver Post ^ | 6/29/2009 | Unattributed

[mojito]

Twelve-year-old Richard Wayde Hamar of Yuma was killed in a bull-riding competition Sunday morning at the Little Britches Rodeo at the Boulder County Fairground in Longmont.

Hamar was wearing a helmet and padded vest, but after he was thrown, the bull stepped on his stomach, officials said.

His parents were in attendance at the two-day rodeo for youths 8 to 18 years old.

"He held on for a few seconds," Katy Sinclair, who witnessed the accident, told the Daily Camera. "When he hit the ground, the bull just ran him over. I could see the bull's legs hit his chest.

"It was one of the worst things I've ever seen," she said. "It was horrible."

A woman who answered the phone at the Hamar residence in Yuma said the family was too distraught to talk Sunday evening.

Mitch Hamar, the boy's father, is in the livestock business in Yuma.

Rodeo clowns chased the bull away and emergency personnel already at the event began life-saving efforts, according to the Boulder County Sheriff's Office. The boy was rushed to Longmont United Hospital, where he died from internal injuries.

[wac3rd]

I wasn’t trying to be mean, but, well...coming from a rural Southern town, I can allude to redneck culture, as I am one, sort of. Kind of like a person from the inner city joking about crack and food stamps, which, in the rural south is meth and food stamps.

Same bad teeth, different housing.