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http://blogs.reuters.com/fullfocus/2013/07/12/photos-of-the-week-24/#a=1SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)or something to that effect...
Sorry, if you are dumb enough to purposefully antagonize a 2000 pound animal with horns, then you get what you get.
Next up, let's play rile up the grizzly!
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)backscatter712
(26,355 posts)¡Olé!
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Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)backscatter712
(26,355 posts)I've seen a few Pamplona videos that showed a guy getting not just gored and tossed by the bull, but also pantsed.
FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)You are chased by the local Roller Derby Team armed with nerf bats while running a 5K through the French Quarter
Lots of fun without the danger.
http://www.neworleansonline.com/neworleans/festivals/multiculturalfestivals/runningofthebulls.html
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)the roller girls....she used to come to work utterly exhausted. Love New Orleans through and through. It is the ultimate live and let live city. No rules. The only thing you can not do is turn left at a light.
Lunacee_2013
(529 posts)AT ALL.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)be gone today.
Wolf Frankula
(3,602 posts)Last edited Wed Jul 17, 2013, 12:50 AM - Edit history (1)
It's part of the Festival of San Fermin. Running with the bulls was supposed to be a way for local unmarried men to show how brave they were. It's been touristified and fluffed up since Mozkor Kaka's time. Some Navarrese, they tell me, make a point of staying away from the running of the bulls.
Wolf
Cleita
(75,480 posts)I think it would have died out by today if it weren't for that.
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)Wolf Frankula
(3,602 posts)I called a relative who has been there and he said the running of the bulls is 16th century as part of a summer cattle festival that got bound up with San Fermin when he was declared the patron saint. The religious part is much older.
BTW Pamplona, Iruña if you're Basque, goes on a ten day bender in July. The rest of the year it is a staid and respectable city.
Wolf
RedCappedBandit
(5,514 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)malaise
(269,211 posts)DUzy