This gotta HURT!!!!
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This is San Fermin in Pamplona. I was a regular there in my 20's. ( actually went there every year ). And running with the bulls is an awesome experience and usually not dangerous.
The bulls leave their compound at dawn and run through a maze of streets on their way to the Plazza where they will be "fought" in the afternoon.
While in a group you can actually run in the middle of them, with a bull on one side and a bull on the other...
Shet happens when some of the bulls slip and fall ( and it happens on that slippery round stones pavement ) and the bull stands up and has lost the group...and then it usually turns itself the other way round ( facing the pen it left minutes before ) and starts running back...against the horde of ( not bull runners ) bull followers ( a loose bunch composed of many young tourists and Hemingway wannabe's )...
And here they start dying and things like this photo start happening, quite a number of them every year..
But beyond that ( and US Rodeos also maim and kill ) this is a very serious, religious, mythical, occasion, at the very heart of our Iberian heritage.
This really is much more than can be surmised from this pix.
The bulls leave their compound at dawn and run through a maze of streets on their way to the Plazza where they will be "fought" in the afternoon.
While in a group you can actually run in the middle of them, with a bull on one side and a bull on the other...
Shet happens when some of the bulls slip and fall ( and it happens on that slippery round stones pavement ) and the bull stands up and has lost the group...and then it usually turns itself the other way round ( facing the pen it left minutes before ) and starts running back...against the horde of ( not bull runners ) bull followers ( a loose bunch composed of many young tourists and Hemingway wannabe's )...
And here they start dying and things like this photo start happening, quite a number of them every year..
But beyond that ( and US Rodeos also maim and kill ) this is a very serious, religious, mythical, occasion, at the very heart of our Iberian heritage.
This really is much more than can be surmised from this pix.
johnptc;1037482; said:if you cant run with the big dogs...stay on the porch
It is tottaly applicable to this situation John...only the guys who come tumbling in the back , screaming and hollering and DRUNK, get hurt.
( poor guy, no delight in seeing that pix and he may have died from that, mind
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