Re: So I fell asleep an hour ago
Posted: July 08, 2008 • 2:41 pm
Oh damn, Fred, what a funny story. I'm so sorry that your week is sucking. But....gotta wipe my eyes here.
That was ROFLalicious.
That was ROFLalicious.
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PAMPLONA, Spain (AFP) — Five men were injured, including one who was gored, on the second day of the annual bull running festival in the northern Spanish town of Pamplona on Tuesday, organisers said.
A 31-year-old man was gored by a bull in the upper leg in the final moments of the run while another man was trampled by the animals, they said in a statement. The remaining three suffered minor cuts and bruises.
The San Fermin festival, immortalized by Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises" which is set at the centuries-old the event, attracts tourists from all over the world. It wraps up on July 14.
On the first day of festival 13 people were injured, one seriously, from falls sustained while running through the narrow, twisting cobbled streets of the old town of Pamplona pursued by bulls.
On each day of the festival six bulls are released at 8:00 a.m. (0600 GMT) to run from their corral over an 825-metre (yard) course to the bullring where they face matadors in the afternoon.
Fourteen people have been killed in the bull run since 1911.
The Spanish Red Cross said 13 people were injured, with head, rib or other injuries from falling or getting trampled.
It said six were Spanish and the rest were from the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Romania and South Korea. No names were given. The worst off was a 37-year-old Spaniard with fractured ribs and a ruptured spleen, the Red Cross said.
The whole run took just over four minutes, which is a bit slow by the standards of Pamplona's Fiesta de San Fermin, as the festival is known.