Last week a prominent Spanish bullfighter Francisco “Paquirri” Rivera Ordonez was gored in the groin, with the bull’s horn going 25 centimetres deep but missing any vital organs.
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“A bull stunned him from behind and gored him within the neck”, he advised AFP. No word yet on whether he survived his latest skewering. The raucous event at Pamplona, immortalized in Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel “The Sun Also Rises”, has made the annual pastime across Spain a famous and inviting, if hazardous, spectacle.
This brings the number of deaths since the start of July up to seven. As nearly seen below (some of the video is censored), the moron mentioned above got the business end of the bull.
FOUR PEOPLE WERE gored to death over the weekend in Spain.
The soldier was attacked by the baby bull after losing his balance and falling over as he tried to dodge the animal as part of the show. Another unidentified victim died at an event Friday in Museros on Spain’s east coast.
Perez slipped whilst in the ring and was hit in the stomach as he tried to reach for safety at the side of the ring. He was caught in a bottle-neck of people trying to squeeze through the narrow gap as the bull charged – and tossed up in the air like a rag doll before being dumped on the ground.
Shortly after midnight that same evening, Rafael Minano died in hospital in Murcia after a bull had severed his femoral artery during a bull run in Blanca.
Most of the deaths have occurred during bull runs similar to those that take place every year at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona. He was trapped at side between the bull and the wooden fence for several seconds before he could be treated.
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When your culture glorifies the practice of taunting cattle, it’s pretty pathetic.
