7 Gored In Running Of The Bulls In Spain
Most Dangerous Year On Record For Centuries-Old Pamplona Festival
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Revelers carry a runner, identified only by his initials R.E.A, a 23 year old man from Mexico, gored by a Marque de Domeq bull during the running of the bulls San Fermin fiestas in Pamplona, northern Spain, Thursday, July 12, 2007. The fiestas 'Los San Fermines' held since 1591, attracts tens of thousands of foreign visitors each year for nine days of revelry, morning bull-runs and afternoon bullfights. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
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Reveler is tossed by a calf after the running of the bulls during the San Fermin fiestas in Pamplona, northern Spain, Thursday, July 12, 2007. The fiestas 'Los San Fermines' held since 1591, attracts tens of thousands of foreign visitors each year for nine days of revelry, morning bull-runs and afternoon bullfights. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
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Photos Running Of The Bulls Revelers scramble down the narrow cobblestone streets of Pamplona, Spain chased by a pack of massive bulls.
Thirteen people in total were hospitalized, seven for gorings and six for treatment of head injuries and other injuries, the local government said in a statement. Three were reported to be in very serious condition after undergoing operations.
The pack of six 1,300-pound bulls and six steers — meant to keep the bulls running in a single pack — disintegrated shortly after the animals set off on the dash through the cobblestone streets of Pamplona in the sixth of eight planned runs.
One stray bull turned around and ran the wrong way. Herders with long sticks smacked it in the rump to get the animal pointed in the right direction.
The loose bull charged and tossed several runners — some of them clad in the traditional red-and-white garb of San Fermin — on its way to the bullring.
Several runners were trampled and seven runners were injured by bulls' horns. One 48-year-old man from Pamplona was gored in the chest and was reported to be in very serious condition. A 23-year-old Mexican was gored in the stomach and was also reported as very serious.
The other runners who were gored were from Poland, Norway, Spain and the United States, with ages ranging from 23 to 50, officials said. They were all reported to be in serious condition.
The run lasted 6 minutes, 9 seconds, compared with the normal length of about 2 minutes, because the bulls separated — the most dangerous thing that can happen at Pamplona.
The festival in this northern town, renowned for its all-night street parties, dates back to the late 16th century. It gained worldwide fame in Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises."
Since record-keeping began in 1924, 13 people have been killed during the runs, the most recent in 1995.
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- Score another one for Da' Bulls!
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- Good, people that are that stupid deserve it.
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- Good!
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- Spain has amazing fesitvals, which would be banned outright in the US for being far too dangerous. Burning their politocal figures in effigy, trowing things, amazing. It's a wonder far more people don't get killed going that stuff, but in a way, it's really beautiful. That said, enough already, leave the bulls alone.
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- It's not natural selection. It's the simple fact either you're smart, or your IQ isn't even higher than the bonus crayon you got in your crayola box. And it looks like Spain does a LOT of coloring.
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- Bulls 13, idiots 0. Darwin was right; natural selection does work.
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Ex-NBA ref Tim Donaghy 
