Bulls See (and Spill) More Red in Pamplona

5 Runners Gored, 6 Others Injured at San Fermin Festival

(AP)  Five runners were gored, two seriously, and six received other injuries at a packed running of the bulls at the San Fermin festival on Sunday.

One man was caught in the chest and legs when a large bull became separated from the pack on the slippery cobblestone streets leading to the bullring.

The bull, a Miura weighing 1,268 pounds, jerked the runner upward and then rolled him along the ground in the entrance to the ring. Miuras are the largest and most famous of Spain's fighting bulls.

The sixth running of the bulls at the annual festival was held two days after a 27-year-old man was gored to death, the first such fatality since 1995.

Medical services spokesman Dr. Fernando Boneta said five people suffered gorings, of whom two were in serious condition. One man was gored in the upper thorax.

Six others have bruising and all have been admitted for medical treatment.

The bull initially got a horn caught on a wooden barrier at a bend in the route, slipped and became embroiled in a three-animal pileup before resuming its gallop.

Bulls are at their most dangerous when the pack splits up, leaving individual animals disoriented and irritated by the large crowds traditionally clad in white, with red bandanna neckerchiefs and cummerbunds.

For more than 100 years thrill-seekers have accompanied the bulls from a pen outside the city walls on a dangerous, daredevil run to the bullring. In the afternoon, the bulls face matadors and almost certain death.

On Friday, Spaniard Daniel Jimeno Romero was gored in the upper chest and neck and was declared dead shortly after reaching the hospital.

darwin award winners? need to be

[rtrav85]

when people run with the bulls, they take on a certain risk themselves... so it's their fault if they get hurt...but we shouldn't ban the custom

interesting article on the debate about whether we should ban the tradition: https://www.mindreign.com/en/mindshare/World-Politics-and-Current-Events/Stop-the-Running-of-the-Bulls-3f-No-Way-/sl34045952bp314cpp10pn1.html

[Stormy500]

After this year is over, put the bulls out free in the open as they were meant to be. Then next year send a single "pack" of men out to face HUNDREDS of bulls. Then, when this pack of men have been slaughtered in the fair fight, release the bulls (all survivors) back to the open spaces and let all the macho men all over the world who witnessed this spectacle crawl back to their caves. End of bullfighting.

[rwsmith29456]

Let's start a new tradition in Alaska called "Running With The Grizzlies". It will let thrill seekers have their fun. After the bears maul a few people in the morning, put them in a ring in the afternoon and use them for target practice with .22 caliber bulliets. Of course it is dangerous for the shooters, too, so that makes it fair. The shooters show their courage and get a lot of girl friends. I'm sure this new tradition will outlast the bull running. Makes a lot of sense, doesn't it.

[two-cats]

I am outraged that Spain continues the running of the bulls and its bull fighting. It is a disgusting attitude they have toward animals. And don't tell me it is an art form! I know harassment and meanness when I see it!

[noirviolette]

Good for the bulls.Sometimes people DO get what they deserve.

[hankvreeland]

I'm surprised a lawyer hasn't figured a way to make a buck out of this,

[riob678]

The lawyers have figured out a way. They're forming a rights group called, "No Bull Run." Bulls will be represented on contingency. Criminal and civil suits will be simultaneously filed seeking punitive and monetary damages from the City of Pamplona, and the deeper pockets of the government of Spain for complicity in sponsoring bullicide. San Fermin Festival organizers will be held harmless since they were performing their duties in good faith. Donations for the legal fund will be accepted and deposited into the BULLPAC (a political action committee) where an honest politician, or lawyer, will be in charge of accounting.

[dnamj]

This is disgusting an so many levels. Torturing animals for sport needs be left in the past.

[ToolMangler1]

One thing about this, at least the bulls get a chance to do some damage before they are sacrificed for mans pleasure. How many other animal sports are conducted like this (where the animals get some 'payback')

[hotmeal117]

I guess this must be fun for the bulls. That will teach them to eat steak.

[TyroneHoglegg]

I wonder how many of these morons never really gauged the danger of doing something like this until, a bulls horn was penetrating their sphynchter....You have to give them credit though, it isn't fake and contrived like the US Reality shows....

[earth562]

I heard that they're starting another tradition real soon. Blindfolding themselves as they cross an 5-lane highway.

[edward1975-2009]

These idiots should come to the US, we elect fools like this as leaders. Just ask Pelosi and Obama.

[batchitcrazy]

and your real point here would be what? The report is NON-politcal + NON-US in nature and you have to squeek in senseless comments against the President and Speaker.
Does mommy know you're using her computer again?

[beaumuff]

This has to be about one of the dumbest things a person can do. Hope the bull wins.