Author Topic: ...and some days the bear gets you. (Well, the bull in this case.)  (Read 1400 times)

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Offline jinxmchue

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Pics are graphic (not particularly gory unless you have a problem with a bloody bull) and absolutely shocking.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/22/julio-aparicio-gored-in-t_n_585941.html

Video quality is horrible.

But dude...




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Re: ...and some days the bear gets you. (Well, the bull in this case.)
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2010, 04:29:17 PM »
I saw this a few days ago and considered posting it in Sports. :evillaugh:
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Re: ...and some days the bear gets you. (Well, the bull in this case.)
« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2010, 05:24:10 PM »
Reminds me of a line from Redneck Rampage (PC game) "Screw with the bull, ya git the horn".
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Re: ...and some days the bear gets you. (Well, the bull in this case.)
« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2010, 06:22:54 PM »
I can just imagine what he was thinking at that moment: "So this is how I die."

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Re: ...and some days the bear gets you. (Well, the bull in this case.)
« Reply #4 on: May 27, 2010, 06:38:42 AM »
I can just imagine what he was thinking at that moment: "So this is how I die."

That is the risk one takes when one gets close to a ton of raging, wounded ,blood spattered, taunted beyond endurance dangerous animal.

The Picadors ride out on horse back and fling spears into the Animal to cause it pain, get it roused and MAD as Hell.  Then some idiot armed with a red cape comes out and teases the animal until it attacks him.

Now I have nothing against this ancient tradition. Takes years of training before a man/woman can survive the ring.

Shades of the coliseum that pit man against wild animals or each other. 


   

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Re: ...and some days the bear gets you. (Well, the bull in this case.)
« Reply #5 on: May 27, 2010, 08:15:44 AM »
Don't they sometimes prove their bravery by kissing the bull on the head?  Or am I mixing that up with the snake charmers?

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Re: ...and some days the bear gets you. (Well, the bull in this case.)
« Reply #6 on: May 28, 2010, 09:34:06 AM »
Shades of the coliseum that pit man against wild animals or each other.

But the Romans cheered for the animals, not the Christians or whomever the unlucky "adversary" was.
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Re: ...and some days the bear gets you. (Well, the bull in this case.)
« Reply #7 on: May 30, 2010, 03:58:48 PM »
But the Romans cheered for the animals, not the Christians or whomever the unlucky "adversary" was.

From what I understand men volinteered to go into the ring and fight.  Some of these men became very wealthy and were the rock stars of that era.