Monday, July 7, 2014

AP: "First day of Pamplona bull-run sees 1 gored"

"Jose Aldaba, a spokesman for Spain's Red Cross, said four people were taken to a city hospital for injuries sustained in the 8.a.m. run, the first of the annual San Fermin festival. One was gored in the thigh."
A statement from the Navarra regional government said the four were Spaniards but none was in serious condition.

The run sees people racing with the bulls along a narrow 930-yard (850-meter) course from a holding pen to the city bull ring.

It lasted just over two minutes.

Dozens of people are injured each year in the "encierros," as the runs are called in Spanish. Most get hurt in falls.
 
 
Video of the run after the jump



27 comments:

Shouting Thomas said...

Very cool video!

Shouting Thomas said...

Love the white and red costumes of the bull runners!

Makes it seem as if they are altar boys on a religious quest.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

That's got to be a huge adrenaline rush.

john said...

A huge adrenaline rush with really puckered up cheeks.

Evi L. Bloggerlady said...

The sun also rises…

Evi L. Bloggerlady said...

As you can guess, I cheer for the bulls. I especially hope for a hipster goring.

Icepick said...

Running for the Darwins, that's how I like to think of it.

edutcher said...

Bulls 1, Pacers 0.

Fr Martin Fox said...

Who else read "The Sun Also Rises"?

What did you think?

I confess I was underwhelmed; but I can accept that it's a defect in me.

Unknown said...

I think the bulls are all slaughtered in an arena shortly after that run.

Go bulls!

Shouting Thomas said...

I saw the movie version of The Sun Also Rises years before I read the novel.

I don't remember what I thought of the novel.

But, the movie, starring Tyrone Power and Ava Gardner was a Dialing for Dollars romantic classic.

I watched it and prayed that I would have the opportunity experienced a torrid romance with a dark haired slightly Gypsy beauty.

Shouting Thomas said...

By the way, my prayers were answered.

Be careful what you pray for.

Rabel said...

"Who else read "The Sun Also Rises"?"

I read it just a few years ago and all I remember is that the characters woke up, started drinking, ate breakfast, drank some more, ate lunch, drank some more, ate supper, and then started working on a serious drunk.

I probably need to re-read it to fully grasp the social commentary.

Tank said...

Fr Martin Fox said...

Who else read "The Sun Also Rises"?

What did you think?

I confess I was underwhelmed; but I can accept that it's a defect in me.


You could be gay.

Man up brother.

I thought it was great the first, second, third and fourth time I read it. The first time was in college with a Prof who added a lot of insight, which helped. Helped even more when we read Faulkner.

Tank said...

Where are the women in that video?

Are they banned, or smart?

Fr Martin Fox said...

Tank:

Heh.

Well, I didn't much like Faulkner, either.

Sometimes I think these folks just had deep problems of their own.

Tank said...

Father

Overall, Faulkner's a bit of slog, but the Sound and the Fury was very good - it helps to have a Prof work you through it.

Aridog said...

Speaking of Darwin Award winners, here's a Detroit guy who shot himself in the chest with a sky-rocket mortar. Here's a Photo taken shortly after with the mortar tube still lying on the ground...in the dead man's driveway.

When I commented a while back that I didn't like the plastic mortar tubes that can tip over, or be otherwise mishandled, I wasn't kidding. I regret to be proven right...at a home not over a mile from mine.

ricpic said...

"It was good, Papa, si?"

"Si, campadre. Now excuse me while I go off and put a gun in my mouth."

Fr Martin Fox said...

Tank:

If a prof has to help me through a book in modern English, I wonder how good it can be?

john said...

Has anyone ever read Hemingway or Falkner after high school or college?

Periodically I want to pick up Hemmingway again but when that happens I get this weird feeling I'm back in freshman English lit. class.

Icepick said...

I've read a fair amount of Hemingway short stories over the last couple of years. I found many of them pleasing, though I preferred the shorter ones.

I'm not sure I've ever read any Faulkner.

William said...

Hemingway was the father of cool and the patriarch of super models. Fitzgerald has won the title, but Hemingway during his lifetime (when it counts) got to wear the crown......Maybe someday I'll reread the Sun Also Rises. I know for a fact that For Whom the Bell Tolls was a pile of shit. For a guy who claimed to be telling the truth, he sure told a lot of whoppers.

The Dude said...

I read The Snows of Kilimanjaro the night before I had mitral valve surgery. Seemed like the right thing to do.

That's one of those stories that would cease to exist if there were cell phones then.

"My thorn wound is infected, send an airplane."

"Righto, governor, it'll be there shortly."

Fin.

Dad Bones said...

The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is also forgotten.

An old man is never at home save in his own garments: his own old thinking and beliefs; old hands and feet, elbow, knee, shoulder which he knows will fit.

A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. but it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and don’t try to hold him, that he cant escape from.


You can always hunt down Falkner quotes if you don't want to mess with the books.

The Dude said...

Yoknapatawpha County is not far from where my father grew up. My ol' daddy always said Bill Faulkner would start drinkin' when he started writing, and wouldn't stop until he was too drunk to write another word.

Sounds about right, based on what I have read.

Joe Schmoe said...

Has anyone ever read Hemingway or Falkner after high school or college?

Yes. I didn't read much of either in college as I was an engineering undergrad.

I found Hemingway to be God-awful depressing; his characters rarely have any redeeming qualities and many are downright unfeeling. I didn't like Faulkner either.

But I loved John Steinbeck and I read everything of his.