Flaming-horned bull fatally gores man in Spain

[bullwinkle428]

MADRID (AP) — A flaming-horned bull trampled and fatally gored a man early Saturday during a festival in eastern Spain, an official said.

Large balls of flaming wax are traditionally affixed to the beasts' heads before they are let loose to rampage through squares and narrow streets in such festivals.

The mayor of Navajas, population 730, said emergency services in his town were unable to save the life of the 45-year-old man whose name was withheld. Jose Vicente Torres said the accident happened when the man, who had traveled from Alboraia, about 70 kilometers (45 miles) to the south, tripped just as the bull was released.

http://news.yahoo.com/flaming-horned-bull-fatally-gores-man-spain-154853109.html

How utterly appalling, that anyone would think to slather wax all over a bull's horns and set them on fire for some kind of purpose of "entertainment". Shameful.

[russspeakeasy]

1. Score one for the bulls.

[Doremus]

2. +1

[3auld6phart]

3. Good for the Bull.

Good for the Bull. It's way past time for the end of this so called entertainment.Sick suckers.

[Loudmxr]

4. I have never understood the Spanish fascination with dangerous bulls however

I have also never understood the American fascination with dangerous bullshit.

[Tansy_Gold]

5. That Spanish fascination goes back a long way

The paintings at Altamira are approximately 20,000 years old

[Duer 157099]

6. "Accident"???

They call this an accident?

[saras]

7. What a shame that they let so many people loose in the streets for the bull's entertainment.

Unlike with most other events involving bulls, the animals aren't killed in the end.

Interesting.

I wonder if they use the bulls again, and if a bull who has killed someone develops more of a taste for it.

[Iggo]

8. Hey, it's tradition!

Go bulls.

[nilram]

9. I avoid rampaging bulls, especially those with flaming wax on their heads. But this guy travelled 45

miles to be in (or near) the path of one? I'm sorry for his family, and sorry that he had no other amusements.

[Crunchy Frog]

10. Looks like a Darwin Award may be in the offing.

My sympathies to the bull involved.

[Raine]

11. That poor bull must have been so terrified

to see that fire he could never get away from, brings me to tears for the bull. Such pointless cruelty to an animal.

[surfdog]

12. Love it

[piratefish08]

13. Bull - 1, Dummy - 0