Four gored during annual running of the bulls in Pamplona - YIKES

[Kadie]

Four gored during annual running of the bulls in Pamplona

Friday, July 9, 2004

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(07-09) 11:55 PDT PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) --

Four people -- including two Americans -- were gored Friday during the running for the bulls at this year's San Fermin festival, officials said.

The third day's run also was marred by injuries to at least five other participants. In the two previous days of the popular festival, there have been no serious injuries.

John Doyle, 22, of Dunwoody, Ga., was gored in the groin and would probably be hospitalized for a day or two, said Dr. Wilfredo Soler of Virgen del Camino Hospital.

The other injured American was a 22-year-old man from Louisiana who was gored in the left knee, Soler said. The American requested that his name not be disclosed.

more... http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/07/09/international1455EDT0622.DTL

[GOPisEvil]

1. *cringe* gored in the groin *cringe*

[Book Lover]

2. In other news, Pope remains Catholic

Run with the bulls, expect to slide on bullshit.

[qb]

3. More candidates for the Darwin award. nt

[cheezus]

4. is it just men who run?

on TV that's what it looks like. I really don't know much about this tradition other than we (americans and our media) sure make fun of it (as though we don't have equally stupid things we do religiously)

[ohiosmith]

5. Go bulls!

[LynneSin]

12. That's how I feel - anyone stupid enough to participate in this thing

:eyes:

[underpants]

17. I'd love to do it, seems pretty bad a**ed to me

Wish I had done it when I had the chance. oh well maybe some day.

[LiviaOlivia]

6. I feel nothing.

eom

[proud patriot]

7. Yowza

x(

[underpants]

8. Kerry ran with the bulls

http://blog.johnkerry.com/cgi-bin/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=496

David Thorne says, "I can still feel the hair rising on the back of my neck" as he remembers the day he and his Yale classmate John Kerry were chased through the streets of Pamplona, Spain, by a thundering herd of bulls.

While traveling through Europe during a summer break from Yale, Kerry and Thorne impulsively decided to join hundreds of other young men in the traditional "running of the bulls," a macho rite of passage during the town’s annual festival.

"We got into it, took one look at the bulls rounding the corner and John said, ‘Holy Christ! They’re fast!’" Thorne recalled.

"We took off, but we didn’t get very far before the bulls were right there," Thorne said. "I saw this head of horns no more than 10 feet behind me."

And then, he said, Kerry tripped and fell.

But Kerry escaped being trampled because, Thorne said, the bulls ran around him rather than over him.

Thorne told this story to point out that Kerry, now a U.S. senator from Massachusetts

[tandot]

15. That is some stupid sh*t. I can't believe that he did that.

"macho rite" oh, please. :eyes:

I would have preferred not to know that little unknown fact about him. I think people who do those things are just plain old stupid.

[underpants]

16. Damn I wish I had done it while I was over there

But (at least I wsa told) that it is illegal for GI's to do it-govt. property and all.

[rustydog]

9. "Stoopid is as stoopid does"

[Az]

10. Terrorist Bulls?

The Running of the Bulls... Or as the Bulls refer to it, The running of the Stupid.

[Fenris]

11. Here's a piss-yourself pic if there ever was one...

http://images.thesun.co.uk/picture/0,,2004311148,00.jpg

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004312177,00.html

[tandot]

13. Freepers? One from Georgia, the other from Louisiana

and both stupid enough to run with a bunch of angry bulls to prove their "manhood"

"...gored in the groin..." maybe that took at least one of them out of the gene pool?

I don't feel at all sorry for those people.

[Shakespeare]

14. Or, as the bulls call it, the "trampling of the idiots."

Hard to work up a lot of sympathy for these dummies.

[Dukkha]

18. Four Gored and Seven yeas ago

What was Al Gore doing in Pamplona, Spain?

If you get gored you got what you deserved.