THREE BONEHEADS ended up injured yesterday during the running of the bulls at the San Fermin Festival in Pamplona, Spain.
If you’ve never heard of it – and haven’t read Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises – the bull run is a super popular annual event that essentially involves a bunch of idiots hustling down narrow cobbled-stone streets attempting to outrun a pack of stampeding bulls.
Apparently it’s quite the thrill. Not sure I see the appeal, though.
It’s not uncommon for participants to be trampled or gored, and the Pamplona bull runs have killed 15 people since 1911 — most recently last year. Seems like a pretty good example of social Darwinism hard at work.
All risks to humans aside, I don’t think it’s fair to be subjecting the bulls to this spectacle. Surely they can’t be happy about being coaxed into taking part.
Small wonder so many people get gored, then. If I were a bull in Pamplona, I’d be looking to shove my horn up some stupid tourist’s ass too.
