I Missed Another One...
This year's Running of the Bulls was apparently the bloodiest ever...
PAMPLONA, Spain (Reuters) -- Seven people, including two Americans, a Mexican, a Pole and a Norwegian, were gored on Thursday in the bloodiest day yet at this year's annual running of the bulls festival in the northern Spanish town of Pamplona, organizers said.
A runner is gored by a fighting bull during the sixth day of the San Fermin bull run in Pamplona, northern Spain
A German, a Frenchman and three Spaniards were also treated for other injuries after the sixth day of the event, in which thousands of runners, mostly men drunk after all-night reveling, run through Pamplona's streets as the bulls are herded to a bullring.
Three of the injured men, including the Mexican who was gored in the abdomen and thigh, were in very serious condition and needed surgery.
The San Fermin running of the bulls is an ancient tradition. It was made famous by Ernest Hemingway's novel "The Sun also Rises", a semi-autobiographical account of an alcohol-fueled visit to the festival by a group of squabbling British and American friends in the 1920s.
PAMPLONA, Spain (Reuters) -- Seven people, including two Americans, a Mexican, a Pole and a Norwegian, were gored on Thursday in the bloodiest day yet at this year's annual running of the bulls festival in the northern Spanish town of Pamplona, organizers said.
A runner is gored by a fighting bull during the sixth day of the San Fermin bull run in Pamplona, northern Spain
A German, a Frenchman and three Spaniards were also treated for other injuries after the sixth day of the event, in which thousands of runners, mostly men drunk after all-night reveling, run through Pamplona's streets as the bulls are herded to a bullring.
Three of the injured men, including the Mexican who was gored in the abdomen and thigh, were in very serious condition and needed surgery.
The San Fermin running of the bulls is an ancient tradition. It was made famous by Ernest Hemingway's novel "The Sun also Rises", a semi-autobiographical account of an alcohol-fueled visit to the festival by a group of squabbling British and American friends in the 1920s.
posted by Ted @ 12:11
6 Comments:
At 12/7/07 17:38 ,
KAISER ANDY I said...
you gotta love what people can do in other countries. Could you imagine what would happen here in the states? Someone would get hurt and try to sue everyone involved, even the Chicago bulls.
Only one Pole?
odd
At 12/7/07 19:34 ,
Yankee John said...
"two Americans, a Mexican, a Pole and a Norwegian"
what kind strange joke starts out that way?
I'd like to suggest, instead of a caption contest, a "write the joke" contest. Don't need to supply the punchline, just the set-up.
But on a lighter note, I get that a Pole was gored by a bull, but what the hell was a roofer and a Viking doing there?
At 13/7/07 13:08 ,
Ted said...
Getting gored by bulls, natch.
At 13/7/07 14:07 ,
KAISER ANDY I said...
The roofer was there cause he was tired of goat, and figured that if he could catch one, he could keep it. The Viking was there to make one of them there helmets with the horns on it.
The americans were there because people with more money than brains look for ways to get hurt.
...then the bull sees all these people and thinks- ETHNIC FOOD!
At 14/7/07 01:48 ,
Ted said...
Uhh, Andy...Bulls are herbivores. Grouchy herbivores, yes, but herbivores nonetheless.
At 18/7/07 13:30 ,
Yankee John said...
bad news for Herb
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