July 13, 200421 yr EIGHT runners were gored Monday and at least 10 others injured during the sixth running of the bulls at this year's San Fermin festival in northern Spain. It was the worst day for injuries so far. Runners were upended from behind or trampled along the 850m route from corral to bullring that animals and runners covered in little more than three minutes overnight. The most dangerous moments came at the end. Dozens of runners clogged the narrow entrance to the bullring, falling over one another and blocking the passage. The dozen fighting bulls and generally docile steers - themselves being chased by hundreds of runners from behind the pack - had little choice but to run over or through the fallen crowd. A big black bull lifted one man up by its horns, then repeatedly raked him and others on the ground before it was distracted and walked calmly into the ring. Among the injured was a 26-year-old man from New York who was gored in the left thigh, said Aurelio Lopez, a spokesman for Pamplona City Hall. He asked not to be identified. Ludovico de Carlos Garcia, 24, from Paris, was gored in the right knee, Lopez said. Five Spaniards and one unidentified person also were gored. Ten other runners were injured, among them 50-year-old Brian White from New York, who sustained a shoulder injury. The bull runs popularised by Ernest Hemingway in his 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises continue tonight (AEST). One person was gored on Sunday and two on Saturday. On Friday, four runners were gored including two Americans who were released from the hospital over the weekend. In the two previous days there were no serious injuries. Since record-keeping began in 1924, 13 people have been killed at the festival. The last fatal goring was of an American killed in 1995.
July 13, 200421 yr ouch... that's incredible painful just to look at. I wonder if this guy will still be able to have kids?
July 13, 200421 yr They showed all the carnage on Keith Oberman's show...LOL I laugh my ass off everytime I see the Bulls gore somebody..Dopes... LOL
July 13, 200421 yr There's some people I went to college with that did this, just on a whim because there were there. They said it was aboslutely stupid and they would never do it again.
July 13, 200421 yr There's some people I went to college with that did this, just on a whim because there were there. They said it was aboslutely stupid and they would never do it again. Who was it??? BTW is it wrong that I always root for the Bulls?
July 13, 200421 yr Duffy and a couple of others in the acct. program - they went to Spain the same summer that I went in January. Duff was like "that was the stupidest thing I have ever done..."
July 13, 200421 yr Duffy and a couple of others in the acct. program - they went to Spain the same summer that I went in January. Duff was like "that was the stupidest thing I have ever done..." I have a hunch...
July 14, 200421 yr Who was it??? BTW is it wrong that I always root for the Bulls? No. Rooting for the bulls is the decent thing to do. They will all probably die in the bull fights aftewards, so this is their only true chance at killing the cowards.
July 14, 200421 yr No. Rooting for the bulls is the decent thing to do. They will all probably die in the bull fights aftewards, so this is their only true chance at killing the cowards. Absofreakinlutely you cheer for the bulls...These morons put themselves in danger..Hey, lets go f*** around a 1500lb bull with razor sharp horns Hehehe :puke Please...
July 14, 200421 yr Who was it??? BTW is it wrong that I always root for the Bulls? As long as their names are J-Craw, Kirk Hinrich, and co.
July 14, 200421 yr As long as their names are J-Craw, Kirk Hinrich, and co. J-Craw is going bye-bye... so unless you root for the Knicks, you won't be rooting for him next year.
July 14, 200421 yr They said on the news supposedly Dennis Rodman ran with the bulls this year. What f*** nuts these people are to want to run with bulls...and they wonder how so many get hurt. Sheesh
July 14, 200421 yr Running of the Bulls.....the best and most entertaining way of weeding out stupid people. Well, that and the attendance at Wrigley.
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