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Bull charges bullfight spectators (Mexico)
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| Monday, 30 January 2006
Posted on 01/30/2006 12:40:26 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
Bull charges bullfight spectators
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| At least two people are being treated in hospital in Mexico City after a bull leapt into a crowd during a bullfight. The half-ton bull - named Parajito or Little Bird - breached the safety barrier and landed on the fans. The rampage ended when a fight participant entered the stand and killed the animal with his sword. Mexico City's bullring was built 60 years ago and is one of the biggest in the world, with a capacity of 48,000. Television images of the bullfight showed the beast jump over the heads of journalists and into the most expensive seats at the capital's vast ring. One woman spectator received a six-inch (15-cm) gash in her chest. The bullfight resumed 30 minutes after the incident. Little Bird is the first bull in the ring's history to jump into the crowd.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Mexico; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aptlynamedlittlebird; karma
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To: HairOfTheDog
Bullfighting is nothing less than barbaric.
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posted on
01/30/2006 12:41:30 PM PST
by
cjshapi
To: HairOfTheDog
What does PETA think of Mexicans? Worse than Americans?
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posted on
01/30/2006 12:42:21 PM PST
by
coconutt2000
(NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
To: HairOfTheDog
I hate bullfighting, I'm always rooting for the bull. I hear ya. ....and I root for them in the annual "running of the bulls" (or whatever it's called) in Spain as well...
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posted on
01/30/2006 12:42:40 PM PST
by
Mr. Mojo
To: Ramius; ecurbh; Flyer; technochick99; sinkspur; 88keys; DugwayDuke; sissyjane; Severa; RMDupree; ...
This isn't really a doggie or horsie thread, but the video is pretty intense, and I thought you'd appreciate what a rush it probably was to see that bull comin' right for ya..
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posted on
01/30/2006 12:43:09 PM PST
by
HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog
To: HairOfTheDog
Just goring the spectators that americans won't gore.
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posted on
01/30/2006 12:43:16 PM PST
by
Safetgiver
(Noone spoke when the levee done broke, Blanco cried and Nagin lied.)
To: HairOfTheDog
Me too, I have no sympathy for the bullfighter when the bull gets the upper hand, kind of like a skydiver when his chute doesn't open. Hard to feel sorry for them when everyone knows it will happen eventually.
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posted on
01/30/2006 12:45:40 PM PST
by
Abathar
(Proudly catching hell for posting without reading since 2004)
To: HairOfTheDog
I thought they didn't kill the bull in Mexico, only in Spain?
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posted on
01/30/2006 12:47:00 PM PST
by
Mr. Jeeves
("When the government is invasive, the people are wanting." -- Tao Te Ching)
To: cjshapi; Mr. Mojo
Agreed... the bull fighter actually jumped up there and stabbed the thing with his sword. They don't show us that part in the video, thankfully. Probably the closest to a fair fight ever in a bull fight.
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posted on
01/30/2006 12:47:12 PM PST
by
HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog
How dare that bull not cooperate!
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posted on
01/30/2006 12:47:56 PM PST
by
SlowBoat407
(The best stuff happens just before the thread snaps.)
To: Abathar
Well, I don't share your disdain for skydivers, for cryin' out loud.
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posted on
01/30/2006 12:47:57 PM PST
by
HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog
That bull hopped those obstacles with the skill of a mountain sheep.
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posted on
01/30/2006 12:48:03 PM PST
by
Shermy
To: Mr. Jeeves; Ramius
I think they always kill the bull... but my brother's actually been to one in Mexico.
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posted on
01/30/2006 12:48:42 PM PST
by
HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog
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posted on
01/30/2006 12:48:50 PM PST
by
wallcrawlr
(http://www.bionicear.com)
To: Shermy
Never get in the way of a very large panicked animal.
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posted on
01/30/2006 12:49:13 PM PST
by
HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog
At least he tried to repay what has been brought upon bulls for centuries in that godforsaken country.
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posted on
01/30/2006 12:49:51 PM PST
by
mtbopfuyn
(Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
To: Safetgiver
Seems a lot of Americans are being 'Gored' by Bull too!
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posted on
01/30/2006 12:50:13 PM PST
by
Bigh4u2
(Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
To: HairOfTheDog
Best part of the film "The Alamo". When asked if the Mexican Army would charge hard and overrun the fort, Davy or Daniel or Travis said something to the effect
"No they do it slowly, like pulling wings off a fly. They did invent the bullfight which is nothing more than murder in slow motion."
To: HairOfTheDog
"Mess with the bull, you get the horns."
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posted on
01/30/2006 12:50:48 PM PST
by
dfwgator
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