“What could go wrong?”
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
“Stupid is as stupid does” seems a little weak for this display of insanely stupid behavior.
Snowflakes melting while rednecks cowboy up.
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Selecting more Darwin Award candidates.
Uhh ... They don’t call it “Cowboy Pinball” for nothin’.
If that $100. Bill gets ripped in two pieces, can the contestant still get $50.?
Utter. Dolts.
Insane even if the bulls were de-horned. Even if they were steers. Insane, period.
Why would a bull act like that? Doesn’t it have better things to do like fart?
they do this in Mexico too
I rode a bull in a Memorial Day weekend rodeo, in Pinetop, AZ, when I was 18 and bulletproof. I stayed on the bull for the obligatory 8 seconds but scored a big fat zero because I was disqualified by the scoring judge, seeing how I flopped around like a rag doll and let my non-gripping hand slap the bull. At an intermission, the organizers tied $20 bills to a bull’s horns and let the bull loose in the arena. My friend and I were the only knuckleheads to take up the challenge. Running alongside the bull was exhilarating but my sense of preservation would not allow me to reach in and touch the bull’s horn in order to snatch one of the $20s. My friend did grab a $20, but got smacked in the face by the bull, head butting him. He had to go to the emergency room and learned he had a broken nose. The charge was $80 in 1975 dollars. Later in life, I remembered that lesson and took up a statistically safer sport- skydiving.
These people are impressively crazy and brave at the same time.
Somehow, I don’t see rodeo pinball taking off, any more than snatching the $20 bill off the horns of a raging bull did, back in my day. Good initiative, bad judgment! MERICA!
My wife and I stayed at a dairy farm for a few days up in Vermont. They had a few hundred cows there.
One day it just rained all day, nothing to do, so I asked if I could explore the property, and the farmer said sure, go anywhere you want...he suggested if I was interested, to take a look at their prize bull.
So, it was pouring rain and all mud, so I put on rain gear and walked down to where there was a structure with dozens of cows milling about. They stopped and regarded me, gazing with their uninterested look as they chewed, but sure enough, there was the bull, his head sticking FAR up above the backs of the cows.
And he had is eyes on me.
It wasn’t the dull, bored, disinterested look of the cows, it was a laser-focus, hostile look that made me fee distinctly uncomfortable.
And it didn’t waver during the fifteen minutes I was poking around. I haven’t spent much time around livestock, but I would wager that bull was somewhere between 1000-1500 lbs. And it was all muscle.
As I walked around, I could FEEL the thing looking at me, and when I turned around...it sure was. At one point, it put its front legs on top of some structure in the pen, and with an immediate feeling of danger, I thought “Jesus Christ. That thing can get out of there!” Then it went over to the gate and began pounding its head against the gate, and I thought “If that thing were to get out, I would be a grease spot.”
I decided I had enough sightseeing and left.
That was extremely intimidating.
A couple of times I have been caught in the ocean in water that was far beyond my ability to fight. I was completely at the mercy of the ocean. I have a huge amount of respect for the power of the ocean, and never, ever take it for granted.
But after seeing that steer, then watching the video of these people being tossed into the air like...rags...made me feel that same kind of respect I have for the ocean...for the power of a bull.
I’ve been around cattle my entire life and have been to hundreds of rodeos and I’ve never seen this performed. I’ve seen other events/stunts that I thought were stupid, but this is probably the stupidest.
Even worse than the Ring of Fear.
Bulls buck. It’s a given there’d be trouble.
