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That's gonna leave a mark

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Batman, Jul 13, 2007.

  1. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    I think we should have bulls run through playgrounds to man us up.
     
  2. Simon_Cowbell

    Simon_Cowbell Active Member

    yep.
     
  3. three_bags_full

    three_bags_full Well-Known Member

    When I was about 20, I was flying from the States to Italy for some training. We stopped in the Azores for two days (thanks to the general flying with us) and were able to watch/participate in something similar. My squad leader and platoon sergeant both got plowed. Good times, man. Good times.
     
  4. Bob Slydell

    Bob Slydell Active Member

    Man, that was awesome. Not sure I'd make the package and run it across five columns, but it may be okay to run inside smaller.

    Of course, in most cases, if you have to ask if it should run, it shouldn't.

    And whoever does the running of the bulls is an idiot.
     
  5. all of a sudden the urge for a hamburger just declined rapidly.
     
  6. shotglass

    shotglass Guest

    Well, sure, that's easy to say NOW...
     
  7. pressmurphy

    pressmurphy Member

    I always root for:
    (1) Newspapers in libel suits
    (2) Whomever's playing Georgetown
    (3) and the bulls in Spain
     
  8. TyWebb

    TyWebb Well-Known Member

    [holding back vomit] - for the second time today (see Bai Ling Thread)
     
  9. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Update of Thursday's gorings...

    MADRID, Spain (AP) — A bull that broke from the pack seriously gored two American brothers, catching one on each of its horns during the running of the bulls festival in Pamplona, but both were recovering Friday in the hospital.
    Lawrence and Michael Lenahan were gored simultaneously by the bull, which also injured 11 other people Thursday. It was the worst day for injuries in the nine-day festival.
    “I started yelling at my brother to show him I was bleeding everywhere but he showed me he was bleeding everywhere,” said Lawrence Lenahan, a 26-year-old Air Force captain from Hermosa Beach, Calif., in a telephone interview from his hospital bed in Pamplona.
    He was gored in the buttocks, while Michael, 23, of Philadelphia, was injured in his leg and was recovering favorably from surgery at the same hospital.
    The brothers had watched one bull run before taking part. Thursday’s run — the sixth day of the festival — was their first.
    The pack of six 1,300-pound bulls and six steers — intended to keep the bulls running in a single pack — disintegrated shortly after the animals set off on the course through the narrow, cobblestoned streets of Pamplona.
    The run lasted 6 minutes, 9 seconds, compared with the usual length of 2 minutes because one bull separated — the most dangerous thing that can happen.
    “I remember looking back and thinking I was in trouble,” Lenahan said.
    As he sat in his hospital bed, Lawrence Lenahan posed holding the front page of a Spanish newspaper that showed both him and his brother on the horns of the same bull.
    He said he remembered using his shirt to help wrap Michael’s leg as medical service staff arrived to help them.
    “I think my brother and I underestimated the speed and danger of it,” Lawrence Lenahan said.
    Another participant, Christopher Neiff, 24, of Norway, had the bull’s horn tear into his shin and slide under the skin right up to his knee. Festival organizers said Neiff had a nearly 5-inch wound, but that the bone was not affected.
    “We will definitely be back again,” Lawrence Lenahan said. “My brother will never run (in the festival) again, but he would like to come back to celebrate.”
    The San Fermin festival in Pamplona, renowned for its all-night street parties, dates back to 1591. It gained worldwide fame in Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel “The Sun Also Rises.”
    Since records began being kept in 1924, 13 people have been killed in the runs. The last fatality, a 22-year-old American, occurred in 1995.
     
  10. shotglass

    shotglass Guest

    Goring, Part II:

    ROME (AP) — French long jumper Salim Sdiri suffered a one-inch wound to his side when he was hit by a javelin during the Golden Gala on Friday. <cm-bd>¶
    He was standing near the long jump area when he was grazed by a javelin thrown by Tero Pitkamaki of Finland. <cm-bd>¶
    Sdiri suffered no internal damage, Italian athletics federation spokesman Marco Sicari said, adding that Sdiri never lost consciousness but does not remember the accident because he went into shock. <cm-bd>¶
     
  11. markvid

    markvid Guest

  12. Diabeetus

    Diabeetus Active Member

    Jeeeeeesus.
     
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