Posted on 07/13/2007 6:34:52 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Two American brothers badly gored at San Fermin
13 July 2007
MADRID - Two American brothers seriously gored during a bull run in the northeastern Spanish city of Pamplona were recovering at a hospital Friday.
Lawrence Lenahan, 26, of Hermosa Beach, California, and his brother, Michael Lenahan, 23, of Philadelphia, were gored Thursday by a bull who strayed from the pack. Thirteen people were injured and seven were gored, including the Lenahan brothers and another two men who were seriously injured.
Michael Lenahan, a sales executive for General Mills, was injured shortly before making it to the bullring _ the end point of the daily runs. The bull's horn broke through the skin on his right shin. The moment, caught on film, made the front page of several Spanish newspapers.
The older Lenahan suffered a 20-centimeter (8-inch) wound in the left buttock after a dangerous sharp right turn in the course, which he described as a ''dead man's curve''.
''I remember looking back and thinking I was in trouble,'' said Lawrence Lenahan, an Air Force captain, in a phone interview with The Associated Press from his hospital bed in Pamplona. His brother also remains hospitalized after undergoing surgery.
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Thanks, you would think that they will now advise against this then, so he might be the last one to run without facing an article 15 if he gets hurt.
“”””BS, I ran the bulls when I was in the air force in spain. LOL”””
You may be the only Bull-Runner on this thread - but I know you are not the only meat eater....even though it’s reading like a Peta forum;)
LOL!
Who’s going to pay their medical bills? The US taxpayer and General Mills medical plan?
Agreed and then to slaughter the bull for nothing but blood and gore is disgusting. Its not as if they are going to BBQ it.
I would say you are correct. He probably eats his steak raw, that way he doesn’t need to kill the bull.
The Running of the Squirrels - is that like a herd of democrats?
A lot of Freepers are withholding their sympathy from these guys.
Fine. I hadn’t realised the Lenahan brothers were asking for our love and affection. They just ran against the Bulls. Good for them.
Therein lies the leeway commanders have in establishing their command climate. Many of the posts I was assigned to or traveled to TDY had off-limits areas in the local community that were not only the seedy parts of town, but also locales frequented for cave diving, hang gliding, etc. It becomes a fine line for an installation or unit commander who has to decide whether or not banning soldiers from say, a local rock climbing attraction will destroy morale and actually impair soldiers from gaining useful skills and enhancing their personal fitness or if that attraction poses an undue risk to service personnel.
I'm pretty sure where I'd come down on the "running with the bulls," thing, but having said that, in Korea, the military actually endorsed the "Korean-American Cowboy Association" and we held rodeos on post...I'm not sure there would've been much difference had a soldier or airman got the horns there, and it did a lot to build ROK-US relationships.
I’m with you on this one. The bulls ought to get some satisfaction out of their miserable ordeal.
Could you imagine the lawsuits that would be flying in the US?
The bulls are slaughtered right after the event and given to the church for orphanages .
I hope thats true.
If I were to inadvertently, somehow, get mixed up in the "running of the bulls," there would also be a "running of the bowels."
A troop in my command was threatened with court martial for a severe sunburn. He got drunk and passed out at the beach and lay there for 4 hours. He lost all the skin on his back like a fire had burned him. The USMC must be more strict than the USAF in such matters...........
No, to kill their bull they call upon the picdors to stab the bull from padded-horseback until the bull bleeds profusely.
Then the brave matador comes back to deal the striking blow to the now half-dead bull.
This is the best bullfight I have ever seen! And I have watched several.
While the bull does bleed profusely, as you say, from the action of the Picadors, it is my understanding that the “Bandeleros” they place are used to disable certain muscles, preventing the bull from raising it’s head while charging. This allows the matador to better place the sword for the kill.
Disgusting sport!
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