Hello, my name is Bulligo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. Spanish bullfighter Julio Aparicio — or as bulls now call him, El Hood Ornament — left intensive care on Monday and was “recovering satisfactorily” in a Madrid hospital after being horrifically gored on Friday at Madrid’s Las Ventas bullring. The description of the wound and resulting surgery is almost as off-putting as the photos. From the Winnipeg Free Press (your go-to source for bullfighting news):
A bull’s horn ripped through his throat, pierced his tongue and smashed his palate. “The horn penetrated into the oral cavity, causing a fracture in the upper palate,” the hospital said in its report.
“A tracheotomy was performed and the affected structures were repaired without surgical complications arising.”
Yikes. Video following the jump.
Most people at the ring did not fully realize Aparicio he had been gored.
“It happened so fast, we thought he had been grazed by the horn,” said American William Lyon, a former bullfighting critic for two Spanish papers and who was at the fight. “The only ones who knew for sure were the press photographers who saw it close-up up through their lenses.”
Here’s the Sky News video of the goring, via Barstool Sports, which shows before and after details I hadn’t seen before.
Apparently Spanish people do actually say “Aye, yai yai.”
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Spanish bullfighter Julio Aparicio out of intensive care after brutal goring in throat [Winnipeg Free Press]
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- Kathy - May 26, 2010 at 4:48 PM
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I always root for the bulls. If you’re dumb enough to goad a large powerful animal into charging you, you need to deal with the possible repercussions. The bull lifted the guy into the air when he caught him with his horn, fantastic!
captcha: encountered dreadful (hehe)
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- Simon - May 27, 2010 at 12:05 AM
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GOOD FOR THE BULL!!!!!!! Stupid barbaric sport! Thats awesome!
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- Paul in KY - May 27, 2010 at 12:04 PM
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I don’t like bull ‘fighting’. They about half-kill the poor animal before the matador ever gets to it. I would have more respect for it if they went after bulls that hadn’t been worried. No sympathy for this man.
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- Craig in NJ - May 27, 2010 at 2:35 PM
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Idiot got what he deserved! Wow- it not fiar that this bull hurt me WHILE I WAS STICKING KNIVES IN HIS BACK AND TORTURING HIM BEFORE I KILLED HIM…..FOR AMUSEMENT. Would love to see this happen more often.
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- Kyle - Jun 11, 2010 at 11:26 AM
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Holy s–t. I agree that bull fighting is a horribly outdated and inhumane sport, but have a little sympathy! dear god.
…i wonder if they have matador insurance.
