Nude protest at Pamplona bull run

BBC News ^ | July 5, 2002 | BBC News Staff

[MeekOneGOP]

Friday, 5 July, 2002, 20:09 GMT 21:09 UK

Nude protest at Pamplona bull run

Naked animal rights campaigners have demonstrated in the Spanish city of Pamplona to protest against the start on Sunday of the hugely popular annual spectacle of bulls chasing dare-devil young men through the streets.

At least a dozen young activists from various European countries and the United States said they wanted to draw attention to the suffering of the bulls during the animals' three-minute charge through the old city.

Their bodies painted with slogans like "let bulls die in peace," the activists stopped traffic and drew curious crowds with a call to ban bullfighting from the festival.

Hundreds of thousands of Spaniards and foreign tourists gather every year in Pamplona for the San Fermin Festival - the town's world-famous running of the bulls fiesta.

One woman sporting nothing but a pair of plastic horns said she felt uncomfortable stripping off, but that her suffering was nothing compared to that of the bulls, which are eventually slaughtered in the Pamplona bull ring.

The campaigners said they would make their nude protest an annual event.

Centuries old

San Fermin is a 400-year-old bullfight extravaganza that was immortalised in Ernest Hemingway's novel The Sun Also Rises.

Crowds jam the city's central square for the traditional firework display that starts a week of round-the-clock drinking, partying and a morning run with half a dozen fighting bulls.

Only a few hundred of the bravest gather in the old quarter each morning pursued by six stampeding bulls. The fighting bulls are killed by matadors each afternoon.

The bulls usually injure several people each day. Since the start of the last century, 13 runners have been gored fatally or trampled to death.

The running of the bulls dates back to 1591 when its purpose was to move the bulls into the arena.

[MeekOneGOP]

I searched and didn't see this already posted......

Pre-emptive answer to the inevitible question:

Yes, here is the picture, lol !:

Protesters want to ban bullfighting from the festival

[CIB-173RDABN]

I thought the running of the bares was on Wall Street.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Recognize anyone in there?

[Tennessee_Bob]

Yeah - that one at the far right is a big wig with PETA.

[MeekOneGOP]

The campaigners said they would make their nude protest an annual event.

LOL! That could actually draw MORE people to the bullfight to just
see the nude protesters make (ahem!) a**es out of themselves, lol!

[Tennessee_Bob]

Sorry, far left - the blonde with the horns.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Her?

[RedBloodedAmerican]

too late.

[RightOnline]

"Their bodies painted with slogans like "let bulls die in peace," the activists stopped traffic and drew curious crowds with a call to ban bullfighting from the festival."

Why yes............in my younger days, I once participated in this protest. On my penis were painted the words:

"It is high time that civilized people the world over decide to allow these poor bulls to live their lives in peace and harmony with their environment, free to roam the surrounding fields, and free of the threat of becoming Big Mac's."

Never saved any bulls, but sure was popular for some reason...............

[Tijeras_Slim]

Welcome to Jamacia, Have a nice day! LOL!

[GaltMeister]

LOL! Dd you get any complaints about the 'fine print'?

[Robert A Cook PE]

And here I was thinking they were protesting smelly tourists in Europe....

http://www.freerepublic.com/fo cus/news/712147/posts

Wrong smells, I guess.

[Kermit]

I only saw one person qualified for the bull run, cows are excluded.;^)

[Dallas]

UNCENSORED VERSION

[Tennessee_Bob]

Yep, that's her.

[Gumlegs]

... probably because all that was visible at the time was "Big Mac."

(Based on the old "shorty" joke).

[MeekOneGOP]

LOL! The French never cease to amaze me. Sheesh!

[dtel]

I think the protesters just like to run around naked.
Especially the PETA folks.

[anymouse]

I don't know about the bulls, but I bet there were a few horny spectators there after these vega-babes walked by. :)

My guess is that none of these PETA types stayed around when the bulls did their run. Would have seen the World's fastest streakers if they were to meet up with those bulls.

[TADSLOS]

Those women looky horny to me.