From Wiki as background:
The Running of the Bulls (in Spanish encierro, from the verb encerrar,to fence in, to lock/shut up, to pen)[1] is a practice that involves running in front of a small group (typically a dozen) of bulls that have been let loose, on a course of a sectioned-off subset of a town’s streets. The most famous running of the bulls is that of the seven-day festival of Sanfermines in honour of San Fermín in Pamplona,[2] although they are held in towns and villages across Spain, Portugal, and in some cities in Mexico,[3] Mesquite, Nevada,[4] and southern France, during the summer. Unlike bullfights, which are performed by professionals, anyone older than 18 may participate in an encierro.
The purpose of this event was in origin to transport the bulls from the off-site corrals where they had spent the night, to the bullring where they would be killed in the evening. Youngsters would jump among them to show off their bravado.
Spanish tradition says the true origin began in North-eastern Spain during the early 14th century. While transporting cattle in order to sell at the market, men would attempt to speed the process by hurrying their cattle using tactics of fear and excitement. After years of this practice, the transportation and hurrying began to turn into a competition, as young adults would attempt to race in front of the bulls and make it safely to their pens without being overtaken. When the popularity of this practice increased and was noticed more and more by the expanding population of Spanish cities, a tradition was created and stands to this day. [5]
Madrid (CNN) — A 73-year-old Spanish man was gored in the right leg on the first day of the annual running of the bulls in Pamplona and a 21-year-old Japanese runner was dragged by a bull, authorities said.
Those were two of six runners who were rushed to the hospital after the frenetic race down the narrow cobblestone streets of the old Spanish town. One of the others taken to the hospital was a 26-year-old Australian who suffered a knee injury. The Red Cross also treated 72 others for minor injuries at the scene, authorities said.
The runner from Ikeda, Japan — whose gender was not immediately released — was dragged by what appeared to be a bull’s horn, hooked through clothing, on the pavement downhill toward the bullring, images from Spanish state television showed. The runner suffered back injuries.
There have been 15 deaths since record-keeping began in 1924 and thousands of injuries in the tradition that dates back 400 years.
High anticipation for Pamplona bull run
Author Ernest Hemingway wrote about it in his 1920s novel, “The Sun Also Rises,” also published under the title, “Fiesta,” and crowds have poured in from around the globe ever since. The town has since erected a statue to Hemingway outside the bullring.
The running starts at 8 a.m. (2 a.m. ET) for eight consecutive days, through July 14, and lasts just a few minutes, from the corrals through the hard pavement of old town streets to the bullring, where the bulls face certain death against matadors later in the day.
Eh, there are a lot of things on my “Bucket List”, but this isn’t among them. The fact is, I’ve always found the idea of Bullfighting, itself, to be repugnant. To each, their own.
¡no mierda del toro!
time to harvest some stuff for supper
@ MacDuff:
Papa Hemingway really popularised the Running of
the Bulls outside of Spain.
He was of course seriously suicidal.
I never enjoyed his books.
I boogied the hell out of a field once in geology field camp when the lone occupant, a bull, took a decided and determined interest in me, but that’s as close as I’ll ever come. People that fly up to halfway around the world to be trampled/gored are morons. And I’ve read “The Sun Also Rises” -- it’s okay, no more than that. Hemmingway is over-rated.
@ Mike C.:
To me that book was a proof staement of Hemingways’
neurosis. I think that he is overrated too.
Now Twain/Clemens, there was a writer…
@ Mike C.:
Definitely in the Top Five of people I would want to meet and talk with if only Mr. Peabody would loan me The Wayback Machine…
Mike C. wrote:
My favorite American author.
@ huckfunn:
Abso-flogging-lutely. I’ve read “The Literary Sins of James Fenimore Cooper” a hundred times, and it still leaves me in tears every time I read it again.
OT but I just saw this… http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/07/07/Unemployment-Rate-Dropped-In-Every-State-That-Elected-A-Republican-Gov-In-2010
it is pretty encouraging, bet you don’t see it on the TV
@ brookly red:
don’t be ridiculous! that’s just big business and wall street conspiring to move the jobs to the red states so obama looks bad.
@ brookly red:
@ Kirly:
Why that’s…that’s RAAAAACIST! 8)
brookly red wrote:
what an interesting fact…
that is campaign material right there.
Debbie Wasserman Schultze was on FNC this morning
saying that Obama has us heading in the right
economic direction.
She is just the pretty face of the Democrat party./
coldwarrior wrote:
exactly what I was thinking, hope the GOP is smart enough to put it out there cause the MSM damnsure won’t
RIX wrote:
*shudder*
@ RIX:
Might explain why my alarm clock stopped working…
RIX wrote:
wait… i thought that was john edwards?
@ brookly red:
He is the glamorous Prell Girl.
Evil one percenter Romney!
He inheritd $1M from his father & donated it to BYU
for scholarship funds for needy students.
Wait, it gets worse. He made ovet $800,000 running
the Salt lake Olymics & donated that to charity!
It gets worse, he refused his $135,000 per year salary
as governor of Massachusetts.
But Obama & his Jackie Kennedy clone wife donated
1% of their salary over a four year span.
Hope & change.
RIX wrote:
/but he donated 30% of OUR salaries… thats gotta count for something
brookly red wrote:
It does. The Obama is just, merciful & generous.
He will spend till your last nickel.
One of the silly excuses for this is that “The Navy
is being enviornmentally sensitive”
isn’t the job of the Navy to kill people & break things?
This is money laundering.
@ RIX:
They were OWED.
You know, for the years of oppression…
//
Bumr50 wrote:
Silly me, you’re right.
It is hateful raaaaacism to even question it.
I just checked my lap top for the DNS Changer Malware.
I’m clean!
OMG, time to partay!
RIX wrote:
you just registered your rig with the FBI… enjoy your partay
Hey… http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9380384/Pentagon-plans-40m-fiber-optic-cable-from-Guantanamo-Bay-to-US-mainland.html?utm_source=tmg&utm_medium=TD_9380384&utm_campaign=USeditorial1
but O said he was closing it down… Oh wait till the lefties find out he lied to them.
brookly red wrote:
I did’t do it on the FBI web site.
But, thanks for the kind wishes.
@ brookly red:
Obama will soon have a mosque at Gitmo & installation
of Sharia Law.
Mike C. wrote:
I suppose that also goes for anyone who engages in any sort of extreme sporting activity? Yup, we should all live every single second of our lives surrounded by a cocoon of risk adversity. Yup, put the surfboard in the attic because you just might accidentally drown while surfing, send the dragster to the junkyard so you don’t accidentally crash while racing and for God’s sake, recycle those Golf clubs because the risk of getting struck by lightning is totally indefensible.
From 2001 to 2010 Afghanistan has received Euro 29 Billon and now the international community has deceided that the country should get additional Euro 16 Billion till 2015. Wouldn’t it make more sense to burn the money ?
Guggi wrote:
That would be unfriendly to the environment./
brookly red wrote:
You really don’t understand how the internet works, do you. Here’s a hint for pizza boy… Your machine is and always has been registered to the FBI. OSI Layer Three…
@ Guggi:
It would make more sense to burn Afghanistan IMO.
doriangrey wrote:
NOW SEE HERE!!!!
that is heresy and an affront to all things that are good!
coldwarrior wrote:
I carry a two-iron. Because, as Lee Trevino famously said “even God can’t hit a two-iron”.
coldwarrior wrote:
In fairness, I saw the Caddy Shack documentary &
the minister did have his golf club struck by
lightening.
@ grambo:
After he was struck by lightning at the 1975 Western Open, Trevino was asked by a reporter what he would do if he were out on the course and it began to storm again. Trevino answered he would take out his 1 iron and point it to the sky, “because not even God can hit the 1-iron.” Trevino said later in an interview with David Feherty that he must have tempted God the week before by staying outside during a lighting delay to entertain the crowds, saying “I deserved to get hit…God can hit a 1-iron”.
RIX wrote:
RIX wrote:
NoThreat2U wrote:
*rofl*
@ Guggi:
Save tons of money, right?? lol
And in case anyone’s keeping track, something OFF TOPIC:
Барни Франк got hitched!
Trevino has also said: “I’ve been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years. I’ve traveled the world and been about everywhere you can imagine. There’s not anything I’m scared of except my wife.”
MacDuff wrote:
Agreed. While in Portugal many years ago, I turned on the tv and watch a little bit of bullfighting. It was hideous. A frightened, bleeding animal and a stadium of screaming, blood-lusting idiots. One of the worst things I’ve ever seen. I also remember tv in Spain, particularly the nightly news, to be very gory and way more graphic than anything shown in America.
Macker wrote:
Those wacky kids! And Bawney made pwenty of money
wish mortgageshes stuff, slurp, drool, spit!
Spotted this today in my neighborhood. Looks like someone is in a totalitarian state of mind.
@ RIX:
Awe you aththuming Bawney ith a Catchew and not a Pitchew?
@ Macker:
Fwank to me looks like an all input dispensary.
Macker wrote:
Weeemy, probabwy dey mix it up.
doriangrey wrote:
Oh, for Christ’s sake, Dorien -- they’re all vying to be the next Darwin Award winner, and some of them are shelling out lots of money to do so
. Get real, will you?
@ Mike C.:*giggle* And I thought YOU were always contrarian.
Later fun seekers.
Remember, wherever you go, that’s where you are.
NoThreat2U wrote:
Apparently I still am. Running down a street in front of a herd of crazed animals, and hoping they nail somebody else, not you. What an accomplishment -- unless they do nail you, of course.
@ Mike C.:
I too think the running is stupid. I also think the torture they put those animals through is cruel. Dumbasses deserve to get stomped or gored.
Urban Infidel wrote:
What the heck is that?? Bloomberg’s new logo for New York City??
@ Macker:
I don’t know if Bawney is a cashew, but he’s definitely a nut.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
Pretty much! It’s not far off.
@ Urban Infidel:
Checka U E-mail!
Macker wrote:
I did! LOL!
this looks more dangerous than running in the street with some cows
His Eternal Nuttyness, Rev. Jeremiah Wright had these pearls of wisdom today for the congregation of Florida Avenue Baptist Church:
General Seti was heard shouting “Amen, Mo-Fo”.
Urban Infidel wrote:
no silly… that’s the new sign for public hospital.
brookly red wrote:
Like the roach motel. You check in, but you don’t check out.
coldwarrior wrote:
Just like a cat. The guy landed on his feet.
huckfunn wrote:
america’s only 7 star general, sun!
coldwarrior wrote:
The General, and perhaps Farakahn, are the only ones with sufficient brilliance to decypher the Reverend’s foamings and frothings.
@ huckfunn:
What a mental case. Tell me, Rev., just what advances have come from Africa (note- not ‘Africans’, but the ‘Africa’ you’re so enamored of) in the last 500 years?