They always get all crazy when the bull wins one.
That had to hurt!a,p.ait may have well been the end of that family line of toreadors.
Posted on 08/20/2010 4:39:32 PM PDT by Retired Greyhound
Spanish public television showed dramatic images of screaming spectators, including children, frantically trying to avoid the animal after it hurdled a security barrier that surrounds the arena as well as a fence and clambered into the crowded stands.
The incident occurred on Wednesday evening in the bullring in the town of Tafalla, in the Navarra region.
Some 30 people were injured, the local Diario de Navarra newspaper said.
Most suffered cuts and bruises or shock, but one man was gored in the back and a 10-year-old boy was being examined at a hospital in the nearby town of Pamplona after suffering multiple bruises.
Several employees of the bullring finally managed to get control of the bull after about 15 minutes, and it was killed and removed by a crane.
“I was terrified. I ran out of the stadium, crying,” one young woman told Basque television.
Another young woman said she fell into the arena. “People started to fall over each other ... Then I couldn’t find my friends, what happened was awful,” she told the television.
A young man said he fell over backwards in the crush of people.
The incident did not take place during a traditional bullfight but during a contest of “recortadores”, in which participants try to avoid the bull while staying as close to it as possible.
Mundotoro, a Spanish website that specialises in bullfighting, said the bull was about to be removed from the arena as it was underperforming when it decided to leap into the crowd.
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They're trying to ban bullfighting in Spain, as they should.
I’ll second that.
As they say in Texas, “You’ve been messin’ with the bull, now here come the horns.”
I always cheer for the bull.
They always get all crazy when the bull wins one.
That had to hurt!a,p.ait may have well been the end of that family line of toreadors.
They killed that bull afterward. Bastards. I didn’t know a bull could jump like that.
I was also impressed with the bull’s performance.
He showed them.
“Underperforming, ey? Watch this!”
I always root for the bull too.
Blood sports have no place in any civilized society.
I feel bad for the children because they don’t know better but, as for the adults: Go Bull!
I agree.
I’ll bet the children know better now.
Hopefully this nonsense stops with their generation.
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I wonder if you've ever been to a bullfight. I was prepared to be horified. but came away impressed. We kill these animals too, but in isolated places away from the public eye.
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Never been to a bullfight. What exactly impressed you?
By the way, of course we kill them...for nourishment.
That's a bunch of bull.
White men can't jump.
>>They killed that bull afterward.
That is ridiculous. I also find it repugnant when a dog that injures someone is “destroyed”, as if it is a malfunctioning piece of equipment.
I went in Madrid years ago. There were six bulls and three different matadors. They seemed to be scheduled so that the least skilled matador fought the first and fourth bulls, and the most skilled matador fought the third and sixth bulls. The first guy made the skill of the other two and especially the most skilled matador obvious to me. I just thought it was impressive. Subsequently I got to watch several fights on barroom TVs, and continued to be impressed.
My understanding is that the bulls killed in these "fights" are harvested for food.
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