Another bullfight goring photo to make you wince (or cheer, whatever)
Jul 13, 2010, 5:30 PM EST
In case you’re wondering where the left horn is located in this photo, your first instinct was correct. Yowch. When it comes to bullfighting, the term “gored in the scrotum” makes me very happy. Because there are few things I enjoy less than watching grown men skewer an innocent animal with spears, slowly killing it for the amusement of people in puffy shirts. So when the tables are turned and the Shish Kabob includes human testicles, well, I figure that the victim was asking for it.
So add this photo to my matadors-being-gored collection (the best of which is still this). The matador here is El Juli of Spain, who was gored on Monday in a fight during the San Fermines fiesta in Pamplona, which includes the annual Running of the Bulls. This bull got Senor Juli right in the joyas de familia, providing him a fun night in the hospital and the highest-pitched voice on the Iberian Peninsula. Oh, and here’s the injury report from the seventh run of the festival:
A man was gored in an arm and two others were injured in a fast-paced penultimate running of the bulls at Spain’s San Fermin festival Tuesday, officials said.
All three — Spanish men whose identities and ages were not disclosed — were hospitalized and later released, the regional government of Navarra said, adding that three other people injured during the seven days of runs remain hospitalized.
Those still hospitalized were a 37-year-old Pamplona resident, well known locally for running the course every year and who was injured Sunday; a 20-year-old British man gored Friday; and an 18-year-old Australian who suffered 3 fractured vertebrae on July 7, the regional government said.
By the way, Spain, before you get all huffy over this post, please note: Paul the Octopus predicted this entire thing.
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Three injured in Spain’s running of the bulls [Associated Press]
Ricky Gervais Partners with WSPA to End Bullfighting [WSPA-USA.org]
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- cc007 - Jul 14, 2010 at 11:12 AM
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Drilling a hole in your head was a time honored tradition to relieve headaches for a long time too. Something I’m sure none of us have ever tried yet we still know it’s not a good idea.
Torturing any living creature for the carnal amusement of the masses is wrong.
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- Jose L Alvarez - Jul 14, 2010 at 11:34 AM
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Well … I was born in Madrid and grew up with bullfighting. However, I think bullfighting is a barbaric tradition that has no place in the 21st century, along with killing baby seals, pilot whales in Norway, Japanese whaling, or hunting for sport. If a man has the need to prove their bribery, take a baseball bat, and go up against a grisly bear, if you win, I will tip my hat to you !
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- Robert Emmerts Son - Jul 14, 2010 at 11:50 AM
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Daddy…Mom said to quit saying stupid stuff and put down that red tablecloth.
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- Michael - Jul 14, 2010 at 12:10 PM
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Are you all vegie.Do you eat meat? We kill a stear with a gun or shock them to death hhhhmmmm what the differance? They have a bull fight the bull dies they eat it. It will not go to waste. Yes I have been to a bull fight in mexico several times. In some Calture it a tradition. Its not like we are talking about a animal on the endanger list
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- Concerned - Jul 14, 2010 at 12:25 PM
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Here’s one idiot who DID go up against a rampaging grizzly!
AND WITH NO BASEBALL BAT! TEE HEE.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTJlr6xVxKc
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- rkaralius - Jul 14, 2010 at 12:38 PM
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…”but I digress…The moment had come, I swallowed my gum, we knew there’d be blood on the sand pretty soon. The crowd held its breath, hoping that death would brighten an otherwise dull afternoon. At last – the matador did what we wanted him to, he raised his sword and his aim was true! In that moment of truth – I suddenly knew – that someone had stolen my wallet.”
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- Concerned - Jul 14, 2010 at 12:40 PM
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“If it offends don’t watch it.”
No, no, Mr. Emmerts…we all need to be VERY WATCHFUL of those who so willingly torture an animal.
If one can do such things to an animal, can they be trusted with humans?
HEY, FOLKS, HOW DO YOU LIKE YER EMMERTS… RARE, MEDIUM, OR WELL DONE?
WHILE YOU’RE CHOWIN’ DOWN, WE CAN TUNE IN TO THE NEWS, AND WATCH ALL THE DEAD DOLPHINS, TURTLES, PELICANS, AD NAUSEUM WASH UP ON THE SHORES OF THE GULF OF MEXICO…
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- Luvheat - Jul 14, 2010 at 12:53 PM
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Sometimes the bull gets the man…I applaud the bull. Maybe this guy won’t be raising anymore matadores
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- antiochcat - Jul 14, 2010 at 12:57 PM
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So, this guy goes to Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls. He goes to the corida for a bullfight, and afterwards goes to a local cafe for some dinner. His waiter recommends the specialty of the house, which he accepts without knowing what it is. When the meal comes, he discovers it’s two large roundish pieces of meat. He takes a bite of one and loves the taste. He calls his waiter over and asks what he just ate. “Senor,’ the waiter explains, ‘When the bull is killed, the ears are given to a willing senorita, the horns and tail are given to the sponsor of the corida, and we get the bull’s balls. These are the cajones of the bull.” ‘Wow,’ says the tourist, they’re actually pretty good.
The next year, the guy goes back to Pamplona. He watches the running of the bulls, he goes to the corida, and he returns to that restaurant and orders the house specialty. Only this time, when the waiter brings out his order, there are only two small little balls on the plate. The tourist remarks ‘Jee, last time I was here, the meal seemed so much bigger.’ “Well senor,” the waiter replied, ‘Sometimes the bull wins.”
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- Jose L Alvarez - Jul 14, 2010 at 1:57 PM
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In Spain they no longer eat the bull, aside from certain parts that they considered delicacies. They use to do it during the times of Franco the dictator. My aunt lives two blocks from the main Madrid ring. In those times, the bull would be quartered right after it was killed, and the meat given to the poor. Today is purely for sport.
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- Callie - Jul 14, 2010 at 3:45 PM
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With that logic, murder is ok as long as you don’t watch someone do it. Ridiculous.
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- Concerned Even More Than ever - Jul 14, 2010 at 9:59 PM
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Touche’, leftcoastblue!
I just read where over 12,000 bulls are killed each year in Spain by bullfighting.
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- Concerned, concerned - Jul 14, 2010 at 10:03 PM
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I also read that before the matador even comes out to display his frilly little panties, men on horseback with very long spears seek to cut a nerve on the back of the bull’s neck, which will disallow him from raising his head.
If the bull can’t raise his head, then he can’t gore anybody.
The more I read about these matadors, the less I like ‘em.
Brave…yeah, right. Make me barf.
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- A Reader - Jul 28, 2010 at 1:01 PM
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Matador…
You have a mother, maybe a sister.
Men put her in an arena.
Men on horses stab her in the back with lances until blood pours from her and she can hardly stand. Her head hangs low.
More men come and stab her with short, barbed spears that hang from her sides.
She is weak. All the time her blood pours out.
Another man in funny women’s clothes waves a piece of cloth at her, makes her stumble round in circles. Blood pours from her sides and back.
If she has strength left to fight back she is surrounded by other men, all taunting her, tiring her.
When she can hardly stand the first man plunges a sword into her.
She falls. Her screams quieten.
Still alive, her ears are cut off.
She is tied with chains and dragged around by horses.
Your sister, your mother, didn’t have a choice.
This is the ‘courage’ of the matador. The ‘courage’ of the Spanish ‘tradition’. This is Spanish ‘culture’.
Brave matador.
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- ben stiller - Aug 6, 2010 at 3:10 PM
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What a bunch of angry pathetic losers there are on the internet.
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- PB - Aug 10, 2010 at 3:47 PM
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They just banned bull fighting in Catalonia, Spain where it has been a time honored tradition.
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- anim_lvr - Aug 12, 2010 at 5:19 PM
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I think that your comment completely explains the situation. Being honest I must admit that sometimes I have also wondered about rodeo and competitive bull riding but regardless of those thoughts there is no dispute that matadors and bull fighting is inhumane and there is no comparison. By the way, you described yourself as a bull fighter but I am assuming you ride the bull while he is bucking. Am wrong in my assumption. Could somebody reply if I am totally confuses. Sorry for ignorance about this SPORT!!! I do consider the matador and bull fights as not a sport but in particular NOT art.
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- anim_lvr - Aug 13, 2010 at 3:40 AM
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That is a great story you told. I laughed my ass off at the end of the joke when the waiter answers “Well Senor sometimes the bull wins”!!! Hilarious
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- you're right - Aug 21, 2010 at 8:05 PM
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wow
ignorance blows me away sometime. quite funny I must say. what the one with the whole mother and sister said was very entertaining too. LOL!
i mean im sure millions chickens get to fight for their life before they land in your mcdonalds burger! oh yeha im sure of that!! ahhaha
oh and the cows that get sloughtered and treated like shit their whole life long. They only have to suffer two hours hanging upside down bleeding before they finally die and land in some other meal you eat..
Please dont talk behind ignorance. it’s unfair because we dont want to get rid of such a significant piece of culture just because some people are stupid and good at inventing false stories. These bulls get to live like God for their whole life, live in big fields and have everything they want. then the day comes they fight for their dignity and get to fight for their life. I’m almost extremely sure you would rather get your ass in the ring and fight for your life rather than living in cowshit and urine sqeezed in tiny smelly places on a fast food ranch and then land in a mc donalds burger or so after you died of bloodloss..
THESE BULLS DO HAVE A CHOICE. OTHER ANIMALS DONT. you should concentrate on real animal cruelties. dont jsut try to hide them by trying to ban a culture. That is very low and ridiculous.
