Ranch-hand Rodeo event 1 cowboy takes the head, 1 on the tail. The another cowboy milks the cow into a beer bottle.
Posted on 07/10/2006 12:26:06 PM PDT by Westlander
A North Carolina man's condition deteriorated Monday after being injured last week in an event connected to an annual festival in Pamplona, Spain.
Ray Ducharme's condition worsened since Sunday while he was in intensive care and he was receiving help breathing, Pamplona spokeswoman Begona Lopez told The Associated Press Monday. Ducharme was being treated for a collapsed lung and required a tracheotomy, according to a Web site maintained by his supporters.
The latest update on the Web site www.pray4ray.com said Monday that Ducharme would be unconscious for three days while fluid was drained from his lungs. "This is a critical time in Ray's recovery," the site said.
The 31-year-old bond trader for Bank of America was left partially paralyzed in a side event Friday on the first day of the San Fermin festival. The festival dates back to the 16th century, but Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel, "The Sun Also Rises," made it an international event. Thousands of runners traditional white shirts and pants with red handkerchiefs dash in front of bulls that are raced through Pamplona's streets to the bull ring.
Ducharme was hurt during a side event to the bull run. He was among hundreds of people who taunted five cows in a bull ring, chasing the cows and pulling their ears and tails.
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Hell yeah!
That may take awhile navigating the track and using his lips as propulsion while pulling a ventilator.
"He was among hundreds of people who taunted five cows in a bull ring, chasing the cows and pulling their ears and tails."
Oh, the ignominy! To be injured by a cow at the running of the bulls.
MOOOOOOOve over, Hemingway!
Ranch-hand Rodeo event 1 cowboy takes the head, 1 on the tail. The another cowboy milks the cow into a beer bottle.
“Ray always liked to push the envelope a little bit,” Ray’s father, Ray Ducharme Sr., said.
I guess this time the envelope pushed back!
Is that called an orchiectomy by bovine?
"Mess with the bull..."
The cows are much smaller than fighting bulls, and have smaller horns, but still weigh nearly a half-ton each.
We raised cows and that is just stupid! Even 'nice' cows are dangerous. And don't pull anything on their bodies unless you are milking them (they aren't crazy about that either).
It depends on the bond type. Junk bond trading has all the risk of stocks.
How embarrassing.
Seems like the correct venue for this would be a cow ring.
..Remember?.SLAP!!!,"stop steaming up my tail"
Doogle
Obviously the cows are smarter than Mr. Ducharme.
I know a few of traders and they are a pretty wild bunch. At least half are coke heads and spend a lot of their money in Vegas and at strip clubs. I can definately see at least one of them trying the bull run.
"Step off, George."
Why? It does wonders for the human gene pool?
Poor Ray was so un-COW-ordinated that he got COW-opted during his COW-ardly deed.
My Dad used to have a cow-calving operation on his farm. A cow really is huge (especially when pregnant...they grow out, not down) and could hurt you, if she wanted to, which, fortunately I've never witnessed. Taunting cows...who are not agressive at all, and really do not want to hurt anyone, is a seriously cruel thing, in my book, even if it is an old Spanish tradition. Not cowardly, but cruel and foolish.
A bull on the other hand, especially without some cows around, really does want to hurt you...I can understand a bit why the Spaniards mess around with them. Still, all of this seems to be a tradition of medieval and even Roman colloseum origins, and, in spite of the romance of it...should be abolished. Taunting animals at all (like our ancestors in the North used to bait and taunt bears, or bulls too...) is not fit for human beings to do, period.
Still the kid was stupid...and needs our prayers.
(see Proverbs 12:10 below...)
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