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British man killed by Bull



Insel affe

HellBilly
Feb 23, 2009
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Brighton factually.....
Bull gores man to death in Spain

On each morning of the San Fermin festival six bulls are released
A young man - reported to be British - has been gored to death in the traditional running of the bulls in Pamplona, northern Spain.

The man was gored in the neck on Friday, during the fourth bull run of the San Fermin festival. Three other runners were injured in the incident.

Spanish media said the British man had emergency surgery in hospital but died of his injuries. He has not been named.

The last fatal goring at the week-long festival was in 1995.

A light-brown bull called Capuchino ploughed into a group of runners and spectators on Friday after getting separated from the main pack.

The BBC's Steve Kingstone in Madrid says the running of the bulls - opposed by animal rights activists - is a defining event in Spanish culture.

Popularised by the writer Ernest Hemingway, it attracts thousands of foreign tourists each year - many of whom choose to take part.

Friday's incident happened close to the start of the 850-metre (2,805ft) run through the streets of Pamplona.

Television footage showed runners fleeing a rogue bull and jumping over the wooden barriers in one of the cobbled streets. The bull tossed one man into the air and then gored him as he lay curled on the ground.

Fellow runners tried to beat the bull off by pulling on its tail and hitting it with sticks.

Fifteen people have died from injuries at the Pamplona fiesta since 1922.

Before Friday's fatality two North Americans were gored to death - in 1980 and 1995 - and a veteran Spanish bull-runner died after a fall in 2003, Spain's El Mundo news website reports.

The festival was made world-famous by Hemingway's 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises.

Clad in white, with a red kerchief, tourists and Spaniards sprint ahead of the charging bulls, which face matadors in the bullring later in the day.


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sounds like a load of old BULLOCKS to me
 


































Easy 10

Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Jul 5, 2003
62,192
Location Location
Read a good piece in The Times the other week from some columnist or other who was defending bullfighting, basically saying that anyone who criticises bullfighting but eats beef is a complete HYPOCRITE.

A bull bred for the bullring lives till it is 6-7 years old, is kept fit and healthy, lives in the open and is allowed to breed. A bull bred for burgers lives till its about 3 years old and is generally kept in captivity, just fattened up until its ready for the slaughter. His point being, if you were given the choice, would you rather live in a shack eating slurry for 3 years before having your brains blown out by a tattoo'd moron in a slaughterhouse. Or would you rather have 7 years of running round in a field shagging all the cows, before going for a "noble" fight to the death against a spaniard in satin tights ?

Neither is a great choice to be fair. But if I had to, I'd probably choose the latter.
 
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Man of Harveys

Well-known member
Jul 9, 2003
18,805
Brighton, UK
Well said Easy, spot on.

Also, few of bullfighting's dissenters, who decry it as nothing more than bloodthirsty, seem ever to realise that the bloodier and more undignified the kill, the more the aficionados will HATE it, and they boo a clumsy matador in a way that would make Leon Knight's arrival on the pitch at Withdean at half-time seem like a BUKKAKE-FEST.

It might seem very bizarre under the circumstances of killing it in public but the dignity of the bull is, weirdly, very important in the whole ceremony. I don't mind the whole thing at all tbh, I find it fascinating. My Spanish ex HATED it.
 




glasfryn

cleaning up cat sick
Nov 29, 2005
20,261
somewhere in Eastbourne
One strike for the Bulls of spain
 


CHAPPERS

DISCO SPENG
Jul 5, 2003
45,029
It's all very subjective innit. Personally I'll eat meat because we are meant to, that's how we survive. I can't do much about the way it's produced apart from eat as ethically as i can. I do not need to go and gawk at a matador spearing a bull to death.
 




Easy 10

Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Jul 5, 2003
62,192
Location Location
It's all very subjective innit. Personally I'll eat meat because we are meant to, that's how we survive. I can't do much about the way it's produced apart from eat as ethically as i can. I do not need to go and gawk at a matador spearing a bull to death.

But if your pity for the bull in the ring is the manner of its death, should you not also take into account the quality (and length) of its life prior to its date with destiny ?

Sure the burger-bull is killed pretty much instantly with a stun-gun to the skull. But its led a fairly miserable existance up until that point, compared with a fit, muscular bull that has been bred to fight.

I'm a meat-eater as well so you can probably chalk me up as a hypocrite I suppose. The food we eat is presented and packaged in such a way these days that we just don't even really RELATE it to having once been an animal. But I can't very well condemn bullfighting whilst at the same time enjoying tucking in to an Uncle Sams chilliburger with extra cheese and thousand island.

Unlike the burger, it don't stack up.
 


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