Do you find that sometimes all the bull just gets to you?

[netmaestro]

[byo]

Yes. And sometimes they hit me from behind.

[Perkin]

Good for the Bull, shame that twenty seconds after there would have been probably thirty people with spears/blades cutting and jabbing it.
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If it was one on one (and the human had only a small dagger) and no other human would intervene at any time to distract the bull or interact in any way, and if when the bull got the human, that it was celebrated and allowed to live, I wouldn't mind as much as I do, but as it is I think it shouldn't be given publicity.
</rant>

[luis]

@Perkin
I agree with you even if you are too kind wanting to give a small blade to the human, unless you mean in the ass.
Unfortunately toreadors rarely dies, and even when it happens it's a nice day but nothing changes for the bulls who follow.

Here are a couple of incredibly brave persons about to joyfully play with a dangerous cow happy to be there the during the fiestas de San Fermín

[RichardL]

Hi,
Many years ago, Arthur Clarke, one of the finest science fiction authors of all time wrote a book that includes a description of a bull fight.
I commend "Childhood's End" to anyone who enjoys a good read and I just wish that the events described in this short extract, copied from a online version, could come to pass...

(NB: Karellen is an extra-terrestrial who visits earth to oversee mankind's transition to its next stage of development.)

RichardL

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And it was the only time Karellen bad shown anger, or at least the appearance of anger. "You may kill one another if you wish," the message had gone, "and that is a matter between you and your own laws. But if you slay, except for food or in self-defence, the beasts that share your world with you-then you may be answerable to me."

No one knew exactly how comprehensive this ban was supposed to be, or what Karellen would do to enforce it. They had not long to wait.

The Plaza de Toros was full when the matadors and their attendants began their professional entry. Everything seemed normal: the brilliant sunlight blazed harshly on the traditional costumes, the great crowd greeted its favourites as it had a hundred times before. Yet here and there faces were turned anxiously towards the sky, to the aloof silver shape fifty kilo-metres above Madrid.

Then the picadors bad taken up their places and the bull had come snorting out into the arena. The skinny horses, nostrils wide with terror, had wheeled in the sunlight as their riders forced them to meet their enemy. The first lance flashed-made contact-and at that moment came a sound that had never been heard on Earth before.

It was the sound of ten thousand people screaming with the pain of the same wound-ten thousand people who, when they had recovered from the shock, found themselves completely unharmed. But that was the end of that bull-fight, and indeed of all bull-fighting, for the news spread rapidly. It is worth recording that the aficionados were so shaken that only one in ten asked for their money back, and also that the London Daily Mirror made matters much worse by suggesting that the Spaniards adopt cricket as a new national sport.

[Karellen]

I commend "Childhood's End" to anyone who enjoys a good read

definitly worth reading, one of my favourite books!

(NB: Karellen is an extra-terrestrial who visits earth to oversee mankind's transition to its next stage of development.)

exactly...