Posted on 07/09/2005 12:11:26 PM PDT by Former Fetus
PAMPLONA, Spain (Reuters) - A French man running with Pamplona's fighting bulls was gored in the mouth on Saturday and three others were injured in the legs and buttocks by the bulls, officials said.
It was the first day that people had been gored by the bulls since the festival, made famous by Ernest Hemingway, opened on Thursday.
The six bulls sent thrill-seekers from all over the world tumbling and leaping over the protective barriers in the July 7 to 14 bull running, part of Pamplona's San Fermin festival.
Hemingway's 1920s novel "The Sun Also Rises" made the fiesta famous and hundreds of Americans and Australians come each year. Fifteen people have died running with the bulls in Pamplona since 1910, most from gorings.
A 24-year-old man, who declined to tell medics where he was from, was seriously gored in the backside and thigh, a festival spokesman said. French man Andre Lailheugue, 50, received a 5 cm (2 inches) wound, which the hospital said was in his face and the Red Cross said had sliced his mouth.
A 46-year-old local man, Juan Carlos Labalde, was gored in the leg and another man in the buttock, the spokesman said.
Two other Spaniards were taken to hospital, one for a dislocated shoulder and another with back injuries.
Each morning a firecracker sounds and the six half tonne bulls are released onto an 825 metre (2,707 ft) course to the bull ring through the cobbled streets.
Authorities estimate some 2,000 to 3,000 people cram together to run with the bulls, which are killed in an evening fight.
Them bulls! He was trying to surrender!!!
Eejits.
At least he had his "Livestrong" band on.
In the mouth?
Peta People.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Although I think I could evade the bulls due to my cat like reflexes, the possibilty of a photo like this including me is the main reason I would never do this.
I can just hear the family at Thanksgiving, "Did you see the picture of Dad getting a bull's horn up is a$$?"
Could be worse, in some other celebration bulls carry fire on their horns... then the thanksgiving moment would be, "do you know why daddy always sits on ice?"
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