Is A Pamplona Style Bull Run At A Drag Strip Promotion Genius Or The Dumbest Thing Ev

[admin]

So my west coast friends are all freaking out of this deal that went down at Virginia Motorsports Park last weekend where a promoter came in, set up a #course and unleashed a bunch of bulls onto people who had paid good money to run away from them. It was billed as a budget alternative [...]

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[malc]

Itīs a way of eliminating stupid.

[malc]

Now this makes more sense doesīnt it ?

The town of Bunol near Valencia ended up covered in a sea of red mush
Revellers threw 130,000 kilos of over-ripe tomatoes at each other

Tomatoes had to be crushed before throwing, donīt want anyone injured do we ?

[Deaf Bob]

As someone who raised steers for the meat market for a number of years...
This and the one overseas is simply DUMB!
Rodeo bulls horns looked to be blunted.. I'm not positive if they are..
A half grown bull/steer can and will throw a mere man over it's back! (3-600 lb animal....Rodeo bulls are in the 12-1800+ lb range)
Had a Shorthorn bull, big big bastard! I was walking beside him with a bale of hay.. (me and bale about 350-375#) when he swung his head sideways, hitting the bale, sending me 6-10 feet away on my ass! That is being "shock absorbed" by the bale...

[malc]

In my part of Spain bullfighting has ceased to exist, I think only the southern regions
let it continue.
Iīve heard it said fighting bulls do have their horns blunted.
Pamplona, no blunted horns here.