OMFG - only for the brave - running the bulls is bullshite

[malaise]

http://blogs.reuters.com/fullfocus/2013/07/12/photos-of-the-week-24/#a=1

[SomethingFishy]

1. Isn't there an old saying, "You poke the bull you get the horns"

or something to that effect...

Sorry, if you are dumb enough to purposefully antagonize a 2000 pound animal with horns, then you get what you get.

Next up, let's play rile up the grizzly!

[msanthrope]

9. Si gioca con il toro ch' si ottiene le corna. That's in Italian, of course. nt

[backscatter712]

2. I always root for the bulls at Pamplona!

¡Olé!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. why are his pants down?

[backscatter712]

7. That tends to happen to people getting tossed like ragdolls by raging bulls.

I've seen a few Pamplona videos that showed a guy getting not just gored and tossed by the bull, but also pantsed.

[FLPanhandle]

5. New Orleans does it right

You are chased by the local Roller Derby Team armed with nerf bats while running a 5K through the French Quarter

Lots of fun without the danger.
http://www.neworleansonline.com/neworleans/festivals/multiculturalfestivals/runningofthebulls.html

[Laura PourMeADrink]

8. It is so fun...lived there for three years and my friend was one of

the roller girls....she used to come to work utterly exhausted. Love New Orleans through and through. It is the ultimate live and let live city. No rules. The only thing you can not do is turn left at a light.

[Lunacee_2013]

16. The guy in the second pic doesn't look like he's trying very hard to get away...

AT ALL.

[Cleita]

6. If it weren't for Hemingway glorifying it, the practice would probably

be gone today.

[Wolf Frankula]

14. Actually The Festival Dates from the 16th Century

Last edited Wed Jul 17, 2013, 12:50 AM - Edit history (1)

It's part of the Festival of San Fermin. Running with the bulls was supposed to be a way for local unmarried men to show how brave they were. It's been touristified and fluffed up since Mozkor Kaka's time. Some Navarrese, they tell me, make a point of staying away from the running of the bulls.

Wolf

[Cleita]

15. I know, but it didn't become a tourist attraction until he wrote about.

I think it would have died out by today if it weren't for that.

[cherokeeprogressive]

17. I read somewhere it was the early 1300's. n/t

[Wolf Frankula]

18. The Festival Is Probably Older than the Running of the Bulls.

I called a relative who has been there and he said the running of the bulls is 16th century as part of a summer cattle festival that got bound up with San Fermin when he was declared the patron saint. The religious part is much older.

BTW Pamplona, Iruña if you're Basque, goes on a ten day bender in July. The rest of the year it is a staid and respectable city.

Wolf

[RedCappedBandit]

10. No sympathy. /shrug

[Nye Bevan]

11. It's like the All-Star Game of the Darwin Awards (nt)

[malaise]

12. Perfect

DUzy

[nolabear]

13. I prefer the New Orleans version.

http://www.nola.com/festivals/index.ssf/2013/07/new_orleans_running_of_the_bul.html