Posted on 01/30/2006 12:40:26 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
Bull charges bullfight spectators
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The half-ton bull - named Parajito or Little Bird - breached the safety barrier and landed on the fans. The rampage ended when a fight participant entered the stand and killed the animal with his sword. Mexico City's bullring was built 60 years ago and is one of the biggest in the world, with a capacity of 48,000. Television images of the bullfight showed the beast jump over the heads of journalists and into the most expensive seats at the capital's vast ring. One woman spectator received a six-inch (15-cm) gash in her chest. The bullfight resumed 30 minutes after the incident. Little Bird is the first bull in the ring's history to jump into the crowd.
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Bull charges bullfight spectators
I wish he'd gotten away... I hate bullfighting, I'm always rooting for the bull.
Bullfighting is nothing less than barbaric.
What does PETA think of Mexicans? Worse than Americans?
I hear ya. ....and I root for them in the annual "running of the bulls" (or whatever it's called) in Spain as well...
This isn't really a doggie or horsie thread, but the video is pretty intense, and I thought you'd appreciate what a rush it probably was to see that bull comin' right for ya..
Vive el Toro!
Just goring the spectators that americans won't gore.
Me too, I have no sympathy for the bullfighter when the bull gets the upper hand, kind of like a skydiver when his chute doesn't open. Hard to feel sorry for them when everyone knows it will happen eventually.
I thought they didn't kill the bull in Mexico, only in Spain?
Agreed... the bull fighter actually jumped up there and stabbed the thing with his sword. They don't show us that part in the video, thankfully. Probably the closest to a fair fight ever in a bull fight.
How dare that bull not cooperate!
Well, I don't share your disdain for skydivers, for cryin' out loud.
That bull hopped those obstacles with the skill of a mountain sheep.
I think they always kill the bull... but my brother's actually been to one in Mexico.
Little Bird went flying.
Never get in the way of a very large panicked animal.
At least he tried to repay what has been brought upon bulls for centuries in that godforsaken country.
Best part of the film "The Alamo". When asked if the Mexican Army would charge hard and overrun the fort, Davy or Daniel or Travis said something to the effect
"No they do it slowly, like pulling wings off a fly. They did invent the bullfight which is nothing more than murder in slow motion."
"Mess with the bull, you get the horns."
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