What’s the over/under on injuries today?
Nothing like being chased by 50 tons of beef with horns!
This is a disgusting and barbaric way to have ‘fun’ and ought to be banned. Join the rest of civilized society wouldja’ where torturing poor dumb beasts is not your favorite past time? Same goes for the bullfighting. It’s disgraceful. Cruel. And senseless. I hope they all get run over and trampled to death. Idiots.
“The Sun Also Rises” is my favorite Hemingway novel. Tried to read “Death in the Afternoon” but gave up after about 2/3’s.
I’d love to visit Pamplona, not sure about the running part though. Not concerned with my speed so much as stupid slow drunk people.
Been there done that! Stall have the la boda de vino somewhere.
Pamplona bull-running festival starts, Darwin Award hopefuls overjoyed
There...much better.
Concurrent with Al Gore’s “Throwing of the Bull***” Festival.
He would be.
That said, Pope John Paul II had more brass than Papa.
My “Hemingway Moment” happened at the bull ring in Mexico City. A friend and I bought the best tickets we could get (on the Shady Side, naturally). We wound up in the second row behind a young couple who were definitely Beautiful People, interviewed by a TV reporter before the fights began. In one of the fights, the novice matador gave them his cape to hold, which attracted some attention to our vicinity. As usual, it began to rain about the time their guy got serious with the bull. They had a small tarp which they offered us to help shelter all four of us. The novice didn’t do well at all . . . three or four cushions came sailing down directly on us. I guess the tarp was for more than just rain protection!
go bulls...
7 days of runs...
Is that right?
I’m surprised that these guys still have the nerve after the first run (:
“Pamplona bull-running festival starts”
Isn’t it time to put this baby to bed? For Hemmingway, it was the macho ambiance he sought for his novel about strenght and weakness, but for modern day Spain, it is an anachronism. Modern Spain has already shown it’s cowardice in the face of threats. Why bother to re-enact a ritual of courage and risk when it’s theme no longer applies?
