Man Trampled and Fatally Gored by Flaming-Horned Bull at Spanish Festival
- Posted on January 22, 2012 at 4:13pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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(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.
Torres said the bull charged the man, gored him and then stamped on his head, causing him “irreversible injuries.” He said he had offered his condolences to the man’s family, but would not cancel similar events scheduled for early Sunday.
“Although ours is a small town, many people from outside come to visit our feast dedicated to Saint Anton,” Torres said, adding that black bows had been tied to town hall flags as a mark of respect and mourning.
Many towns in east and northeastern Spain celebrate feasts with “toros embolados,“ or ”flaming bulls,” which feature the animals racing around and shaking their heads as a reaction to flames or fireworks attached to or close to their horns. At these regional festivals, flaming-horned bulls are taunted and teased by rowdy crowds in bullrings, town squares or down streets. Unlike with most other events involving bulls, the animals aren’t killed in the end.
The regional parliament of northeastern Catalonia banned bullfighting in July 2010 following a signature-collection campaign by animal rights activists. The ban took effect Jan. 1. But the region then passed other legislation protecting flaming bulls, called “correbous” in the Catalan language. Many critics said banning one act while enshrining the other in law was hypocrisy.
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Comments (110)
snufy
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 6:46pmI feel that when someone gets hurt by tortured animals, they get what they deserve. What great fun is it when dogs or chickens fight each other to the death? What’s next–watching lions eat Christians? That used to be a great sport. Society is permeated with sick bastards.
Report Post »LouC57
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 6:56pmA M E N ! ! ! !
Sometimes I do not like humans very much.
Some bonehead shot a buck with an arrow in our neighborhood. The buck happened to be an orphan twin that managed to live behind our house in some brush. It wasn’t fatal, but it took over a month for that buck to rub the arrow out. You can imagine what I’d like to do to the “big bow hunter”.
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 7:32pmLOUC57…
Report Post »Good to hear that your Buck is going to be okay.
Mirimichi
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 7:53pmVery good, Snuffy. I was going to bring that up, too. The idea that people would even watch, let alone start something like **** fighting with razor blades attached to them, and dog fighting, and bull fighting. Very sick individuals and should be made to fight to the death on pay tv. Lets see how brave they are then.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 8:03pmWhen I first read the headline , without see the photo, I thought the article was about a Spanish Gay Pride Halloween Parade gone wrong.
Good for the Bull.
Report Post »broker0101
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 8:12pmLOUC, my guess is what you’d REALLY like to do is felate the “big bow hunter”. And that’s the kindest interpretation of your pap.
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 8:27pmQue bien snuffaluffugus.
Report Post »Buck Shane
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 8:38pmDarwin Award Candidate?
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 9:14pm.
How do you say ‘Hey hold my Beer and Watch This” in spanish?……….
el dumbo assoooo
Report Post »db321
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 12:26amThere has to be a video out there somewhere – I want to see someone get gored and pay for setting a Bull’s his hair on fire!
Report Post »Gumbercules
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:36am@13th Imam
Diddo!
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:10amSNUFY, excellent comment. I agree. God Bless.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 10:48amExactly, I actually thinks it’s Justice when people reap the misery they sow….God gave of dominion over animals just as he has dominion over us. I’m quite sure that he will judge what we do with that dominion and give us what we deserve. I eat meat but take no pleasure in the suffering or death of animals. I view it as a necessary part of nature much as the lion eating it’s prey. People who watch a man slowly bleed a bull to death and cheer aren’t people at all. They are the real animals and are as souless as anything on the planet.
Report Post »MYHEROISRON
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:15pmMess with the Bull, get the horns, especially if yer stupid enough to light the horns on FIRE! What a God cursed thing to do to an animal …
Report Post »frodis
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 6:58pmThat’s what you get.
Report Post »TheFonz
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 6:28pmI once nearly got my arse kicked by a kangaroo (long story). In retrospect, I wondered what my friends and family would have thought about my mode of death. But a flaming-horned bull? That takes the cake.
Report Post »jrmhrpr78
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 3:16amScore one for the Bulls! I am not saying it is not sad for the family. But as a country they should really take a step back and ask themselves, is this really worth it?
Report Post »Witness1974
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 6:20pmI don’t know which is more despicable, inhumanely treating an animal, or devaluing the life of a human being. Most of your comments make me sick.
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:18amI am sad for the man and his family, but he made the decision to be there. He was not forced. He took the risk. He knew what would be done to the bull. God gave us a brain for a reason. he didn’t use his.
Report Post »Barack_Must_Go
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 6:08pmGood for the bull
Report Post »Starkadder
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 5:50pmI prefer my beef humanely slaughtered with a single head shot bleed properly and cut into steaks PRIOR to Bar-B-Que.
Report Post »SistaTriscuit
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 9:41pmSame here. We raise & slaughter our own beef for this very reason.
It nauseates me to know that there are people who actually view the torture of animals as “entertainment”.
Report Post »swsm
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 5:38pmThe bull “stamped” on his head? Mmmm, ok. I digress, it’s called natural selection.
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 5:54pmLemme guess, the bull was named “Darwin”?
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 5:57pmWow, did you get a look at those gas jets? I’d bet when the bull frantically waves its head around and plugs of liquid propane make it to the jets, the flames burst forth with new vigor! A pyro’s dream! Poor bull. One day, Darwin the Great, is going to head for the nearest gas station or fuel truck and really turn on the lights for that town!
Report Post »Buck Shane
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 9:04pm@ swsm
There was blood on the saddle
Report Post »And blood on the ground
A great big puddle of blood all around
A cowboy lay in it all covered with gore
And he won’t be riding his bronco no more
Pity the cowboy all bloody and red
’cause his two ton paint pony just stomped on his head.
LeadNotFollow
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 5:33pmDumb @$$ Spaniards. Abuse an animal and set it on fire.
Report Post »What did you expect was going to happen?
floridacockleburr
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 5:33pmGo Bulls. The most indecent thing this side of dog fighting.
Report Post »llotus
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 5:21pmThe Spaniards realy know how to put the fun in a festivel. Where is peta when they are needed? Lotus.
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 5:41pmPeta only attack “soft” targets like Hollywood, and politicians facing re-election.
Report Post »Excuse my cynicism.
Salamander
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 5:58pmHow do you say ‘PETA’ in Spanish?
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:26amPuta.
Report Post »AB5r
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 5:16pmHumans are worth more than animals. People who worship animals are morons. The bull would trample you even if you said you liked it and thought it was cute.
Report Post »Doctor Nordo
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 5:18pmAnd that gives some ass the right to light its head on fire, eh?
Report Post »Teufel Hunden
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 5:26pmI’m glad to see a bull finally getting a little payback against a Spaniard. I’d like to see more of that! Oooorah!
Report Post »SistaTriscuit
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 9:46pmAB5R – So that makes it alright to torture it & then put flaming torches on its horns? Whatever happened to actual compassion, decency, & humanity? Is self-preservation only reserved for humans & animals are to accept whatever torture is doled out without fighting back?
We raise our own cattle for meat & we make sure they are treated humanely & well cared for & when the time comes they are slaughtered as humanely as is possible. There’s no excuse for intentionally torturing an animal for “entertainment”. What kind of sick idiots derive PLEASURE from torturing an animal?
Report Post »majahn
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:14pmHey guess what, you get the IDIOT of the day award. I would take an animal over a human, and esp you any day of the week.
If you are stupid enough to go out with bulls with their heads on fire, you deserve what you get,.
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 5:15pmBullfighting is the national sport in Spain. In England, it’s cricket.
I’d rather fight a cricket.
Report Post »Ookspay
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 5:51pmNow that is some funny shiite right there….
Report Post »DD313
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 10:15amPETA would rather eat crickets than steak.
Report Post »skippy6
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 5:08pmWell I suppose if a 1000 – 2000 lb pissed off bull stamped on his head something must have gone squish…You know the old saying, you gotta grab the bull by the horns!!!!
Report Post »Doctor Nordo
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 5:05pmNothing like a little bit of animal cruelty to honor a saint.
Seriously, these asses get every ounce of what they have deserve.
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 4:58pmMaby they could release one bull and run one person at a time to make it fair, it gives the bull something to target .
Report Post »GBMBulletsSKNRD
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 5:21pmWe need to turn that bull loose in the White House.
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 5:52pmNow THAT would an event worth the price of admission! Lol.
Report Post »RodentKing
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 12:06pmBull fighting used to be fair when it was originally started in Rome.
Report Post »They wouldn’t jab it with the spears to weaken to make it easy for the Mat a Dor.
This lighting the horns of a bull is just sick,sick, sick
Psychosis
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 4:54pmchoice ……………action………………….consequence
not a real difficult concept
Report Post »For my Liberty!
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 6:24pmit IS a real tough concept in today’s World…..Our kids have been taught for years that “everyone is a winner” “Everyone gets to play regardless of your talent” and There are no losers….Then……they get in the REAL world and can‘t cope so end up being OWS protestors because they don’t like that old saying that “Life is a B I T C H ” and can’t handle it.
Report Post »aragona
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 4:53pmGood.
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 4:42pmStupid is as stupid does!!
Report Post »for-what-its-worth
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 4:54pm3 cheers for the bull.
hip hip hooray!
hip hip hooray!!
hip hip hooray!!!
I always love it when the bull wins.
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 4:58pmNot really. Young people get a thrill out of higher risk events. It must be programmed in somehow, and I don’t know why.
It is no more cruel or stupid than your rodeos, as far as I can see. Except that there is skill and money involved in rodeo.
Report Post »larrylarrylarry
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 5:33pmnzkiwi. Good point about the rodeo. I hadn’t even thought about that.
Report Post »ajentoranje
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 5:34pmRodeo’s are not cruel…. trying to ride a bull is not even remotely cruel to killing bulls for sport or lighting bull’s on fire.
Would you call breaking a horse to be able to ride it cruel??
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 5:38pmI didn’t mean to imply that your rodeos are cruel and stupid. Far from it. I used to love going to them when I was in America.
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 5:49pmThis particular event is not bullfighting which is a rather sad affair, in my view. These bulls run free in amongst a crowd of humans trying to desperately to stay away from the pointy bits.
Attaching burning stuff to the horns is an interesting departure from the Pamploma event, and I’m sure that the animals would rather be in a field munching grass. But at the end of the day, they go home alive.
Not necessarily the same outcome for the humans, obviously.
Report Post »PCKaz
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 7:24amActually (and sadly), there IS a lot of cruelty associated with rodeo. Some of the bucking horses are hit with stunguns shortly before leaving the chute to make them buck. Calves frequently break necks or suffer horrible injuries during the roping. The official numbers are typically much less than reported by activist groups at the event (so it’s hard to get an objective number), but rodeo organizers have been caught lying about injuries and deaths caught on video. I used to love watching rodeo, but stopped once I learned about what goes on. And these are not the small ones either – they’re the big ones, such as Cheyenne Frontier Days, which has a terrible record.
Then there’s animal testing, our weak animal cruelty laws, and the recent return of horse slaughter. The U.S. has its own poor record on cruelty to animals. The problem is addressing it without allowing the far left to turn it into a world where animals have attorneys, and everyone is forced to live by their agenda.
Report Post »Never Offended
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 4:41pmSounds awesome.
Report Post »NOBAMA201258
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 5:23pmHow about the running of pigs and muslims together In mecca and medina?
Report Post »For my Liberty!
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 6:20pmTHAT is EXACTLY what we need in the streets of America….
How about making a law that you have to eat PORK once a week if you want to live in America?
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 4:38pmSounds like a fun event. But you have to accept the risks involved..
Like the running of the bulls in Pamplona, if you go in for these exhilarating high risk events, it is a bit churlish to complain if you get injured. Death is a rare but present risk.
I would like to have done it when I was young.
Report Post »Ookspay
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 4:28pmThese bass ackwards cultures crack me up. Are they still taking naps in Spain also? For some reason I really enjoy hearing these stories when idiots taunt wild nature and get their just deserves.
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 4:49pmI know right?
Report Post »PJL
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 4:28pmWow, what fun it must be to torcher animals. No wonder Spain is in the toilet.
Report Post »neesershea
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 5:05pmI agree..it’s cruel ): I don’t see how watching an animal run in terror as his horns are a blaze and bull fighting in Mexico is horrible bull being speared and bled to death gross!
Report Post »armymp
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 4:26pmAhhh… I love it when the bull wins : )
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 4:50pmlol, yup!
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 4:50pmMe too.
Report Post »Dr. Sax
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 4:24pmI’m all for tradition and everything, and not to sound too PETA-like, but I’m really starting to view bullfighting and the running of the bulls a bit sadistic. Humanity intrigues me sometimes, and usually not for very good reasons.
Report Post »For my Liberty!
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 6:22pmClosest thing to Human sacrifice there is in today’s world…..*l*
Report Post »Brae
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 4:21pmI hope the poor bull gored everyone. This is so inhumane on so many levels it makes me sick.
Report Post »islamhater
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 4:30pm110% Correct.
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 4:51pmAmen to that.
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 5:03pmWish The Blaze would stop these animal cruelty stories. I know it happens but i dont want to be reminded of it. Just show more dead muslims
Report Post »TheLeftMadeMeRight
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 9:11amWell as devil’s advocate; bulls in our country walk up a shoot, have a noose tied around their neck, and a nail gun shot into their skull, all so you can have a burger or a nice t-bone.
At least the flaming bull has a chance to fight back.
P.E.T.A. (People Eating Tasty Animals)
Report Post »YA-allthe-WEH
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 4:18pmGame Over!
Report Post »LIBSALWAYSLIE
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 4:30pmThe whole bull fighting thing is such crap. I cheer for the bull every time.
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