11/17/24
August 19, 2010
Bull Leaps into Crowd in Spain, Injures 40: A 1,100-pound bull leapt into the packed grandstands of a Spanish bullring Wednesday, charging and trampling spectators and leaving 40 people injured. The incident "occurred at an event where young people try to get a bull to charge at them so they can dodge it," AP reports.
That bull should have been at the combine. He would have been drafted ahead of Suh.
posted by beaverboard at 12:35 PM on August 19, 2010
I love it when the bull wins even if it is just for a moment.
Watch the video and make note to self:
Never antagonize a bull, never wear red near antagonized bull.
Let me get this straight this is an event where people try to get a bull to charge them so they can dodge it? It appears the bull is smarter than the people in this case. It also seems you can get a bull to charge at you fairly easily even just sitting in the stands, so where is the sport?
posted by Atheist at 12:45 PM on August 19, 2010
"To hell with chasing after these moving idiots. I'm going after the stationary ones over this wall."
posted by grum@work at 02:15 PM on August 19, 2010
The bullfighting commissioner will be handing out some pretty serious suspensions after this. Oh, wait, they'll just let the bull back in the arena and let the usual punishments be administered.
In all seriousness, I didn't realize that a bull could jump that high. I'll sit in the upper deck from now on. The only bullfight I've ever been to was on Okinawa about 45 years ago, and it was bull vs bull, first one to turn tail and run is the loser. That seemed to be a bit more fair than going up against guys with swords.
posted by Howard_T at 02:39 PM on August 19, 2010
I wasn't aware you could get that many morons together in one place outside of Congress.
posted by wfrazerjr at 03:00 PM on August 19, 2010
So, people support the kind of bullfight that doesn't result in the killing of the bull and this is the thanks they get? I hope they have learned their lesson.
posted by bperk at 03:11 PM on August 19, 2010
This bull is like the Steven Slater of the bullfighting world. He's mad as hell and he ain't gonna take it anymore.
posted by scully at 03:23 PM on August 19, 2010
Well, it wouldn't be exciting if these things never happened. I guess.
posted by WeedyMcSmokey at 06:24 PM on August 19, 2010
I wasn't aware you could get that many morons together in one place outside of Congress.
Any possibility of shipping bulls to DC? They already got enough bullsh*t.
posted by graymatters at 07:17 PM on August 19, 2010
To me, the most unfair part of this story, and the recent case of a matador being gored through his chin, is that they killed the bulls anyway.
The beast ought to deserve a nice retirement at a stud farm somewhere.
Only consolation for them is that since they were doomed from the start, at least they got some licks in before they went.
posted by dviking at 09:54 PM on August 19, 2010
In all seriousness, I didn't realize that a bull could jump that high.
When I worked on my parents' dairy farm we would run a bull with the cows who weren't worth paying to breed with expensive AI sperm. In order to make milking time easier, you'd draught the bull off when you took the cows into the shed, and he could wait outside the yards.
One year I was doing this with a Murray Grey cross; huge bull, probably pushing a ton. He objected. He objected after I'd already got the cows in the yard, and he was standing on the other side of a gate. I'm 185 - say 6'1" in old money - and the gate would be shoulder height on me.
He jumped it.
From a standing start.
He didn't even brush it while he went over - one minute he was standing on the other side, mooing indignantly at me, the next he'd just bunched up a little, and clean jumped damn near six foot in the air.
I let him stay with the cows.
posted by rodgerd at 04:22 AM on August 20, 2010
I'm going to use that story the next time I have to explain why I never go anywhere. It's a good thing they're not bright. Or just that they don't have opposable thumbs.
posted by yerfatma at 10:13 AM on August 20, 2010
Mess with the bull, you get the horns.
Reminds me of that Shark Attack bit that Gilbert Arenas ripped off a while back.