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Spanish Bull Fatally Gores Third Man In Ten Years

Killer Bull Gores Third Man In Ten Years

A Spanish official says a killer bull has claimed another victim, after goring to death a 29-year-old man during festivities in the eastern Valencia region.

A regional government official says the man, whose name was not released, died at a hospital in the town of Xativa late Saturday.

The 1,100-pound (500-kilogram) bull — named “Raton,” or mouse — has killed two other members of the public during festivals over 10 years. Because of Raton’s fearsome reputation, his owners earn euro10,000 (around $14,000) each time he appears at a festival.

Television images on Sunday showed the man being tossed in the air and then hit along the ground in Xativa’s bullring. In Spain, many summer festivals highlight bull runs in streets or bullrings, where revelers can come close to the fearsome beasts..

NPR reports that witness accounts cited by Valencia‘s Las Provincias newspaper Sunday said the man appeared to be under the influence of alcohol and had been escorted back to his seat in the stands during the bull run immediately before Raton’s appearance.

The man was said to have then made his way back down to the ring and was charged and tossed powerfully by the large black-and-white bull.

Bullfighting, a popular Spanish sport with the goal of fatally stabbing the bull deep in the shoulder blades at the end of the ‘show’, can trace its origins in Spain back to 711 A.D. When bulls in a bull run, like the event in Valencia’s festival, finally reach the end of the street they go into pens where they are kept until killed later that day in a bullfight.

In May of last year, a matador miraculously survived a half-ton bull goring his throat with the horn exiting his mouth.

The Associated Press contributed to this article.

Comments (85)

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  • Affirmative Blaction
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 5:49pm

    That‘s why you don’t with a bull…instead a dying, you could of just ate the dam thing, either way you’ll be heaven.

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  • Canadianaleye
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 5:45pm

    Go Bulls!…Umm!….Bears!…….Umm!……….Palin!…just a thought from one whom doesn’t matter.

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  • Islesfordian
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 5:40pm

    “Because of Raton’s fearsome reputation, his owners earn euro10,000 (around $14,000) each time he appears at a festival.”

    So this bull earns MORE money for its owners because it has KILLED people? Killing people is obviously part of the business plan.

    WTF. Rollerball anyone?

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  • snowflake220
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 5:36pm

    Hurrah for the bull. Too bad the guy will live and the bull will die a much worse death.

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 5:46pm

      Well, the guy gored “to death” didn’t really survive. And snce this bull has killed two others over the last ten years it seems he isn‘t dispatched to the bullfights like the others that don’t kill people.

      The story is actually badly written that way.

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 5:51pm

      Maybe the Blaze could notice, when it pulls from different sources, when one source contradicts another. The third paragraph and penultimate paragraph can’t both be true.

      Report Post » Islesfordian  
    • trolltrainer
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 6:14pm

      eh, who uses The Blaze for news anyway? I get my news from real sources. Heck, even yahoo runs stories half a day before The Blaze gets them. The one they just ran about Obama starting his political counteroffensive this week was interesting. I have been waiting for The Blaze to run it so I can read the amusing comments. That is what this site is good for, it gives a feel for what the average person is saying.

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  • PJL
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 5:35pm

    Olé!

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  • BOMUSTGO
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 5:31pm

    Hope he had clean underwear!

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    • chips1
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 6:13pm

      Before or After?

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    • psst
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 11:52pm

      Well, if he listened to his maw he did.
      If he did not heed maw’s advice, um, Oh well, it doesn’t matter now. No one can tell him “bad boy, ya gotta do like maw says”

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  • whatthecrazy
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 5:29pm

    Its this simple if you dont want to die by bull then try not to run drunk in front of them me thinks this may piss them off…………..

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    • Dustoff
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 5:33pm

      When people are Stupid enough to take on a Bull, then you may was well go have a beer in the middle of the freeway @ 5PM.

      I in “NO” feel sorry for you.

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  • ilikai
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 5:24pm

    Another ******** machismo sport so that inept men can puff their chests up and swagger. I cheer for the bulls to get as many of these clowns as they can, Helps clean the gene pool.

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  • teddrunk
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 5:22pm

    So, running with the bulls is actually safer than attending an Indiana State Fair Sugarland concert.

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  • yikes
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 5:17pm

    Old saying goes: When you mess with the bull…you get the horn!!!!!!!

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  • teddrunk
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 5:17pm

    I saw the root word fatal and the next word and got excited. I should slow down and read and comprehend better.

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  • BOMUSTGO
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 5:15pm

    The “Running of the Bull Crap” campaigning to your Country soon!

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  • Ookspay
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 5:10pm

    Nice! Predictable, karmaic, nice!

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 5:18pm

      Al Gore has been shoveling the bull for years. Didn’t know he spoke espanol.

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  • qpwillie
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 5:08pm

    In Spain, the national sport is bull fighting. In England, it’s cricket.

    I think I’d rather fight a cricket.

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  • YepImaConservative
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 5:06pm

    Thousands of alcohol-soaked revelers pressed into the small plaza outside Pamplona‘s municipal office to celebrate Spain’s most famous festival: The Running of the Bulls.

    Meanwhile, a half-globe away, a drunk Lindsay Lohan and Tara Reid were seen leaving a nightclub in the early morning LA ritual: The Crawling of the Pigs.

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  • Mateytwo Barreett
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 5:05pm

    Machismo? A fine line between being a hero and an idiot. . .Raton moved the line- a lot!

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  • qpwillie
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 5:03pm

    I‘ll bet he won’t try that again.

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  • trolltrainer
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 5:03pm

    If one didn’t get killed every now and then what would be the point? Might as well run with the squirrels…

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  • BOMUSTGO
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 4:59pm

    Al Gore does a lot of running of the bull ! As well as the rest of D.C., media…………

    Report Post » BOMUSTGO  
  • WhippedPuppy
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 4:57pm

    Some people face death by tempting fate, others go to the state fair. Both are sad.

    Report Post » WhippedPuppy  
    • teddrunk
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 6:39pm

      Hey, going to the State Fair in Wisconsin is tempting fate.

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  • NO-GODS-NO-MASTERS
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 4:57pm

    If the man was stupid enough to do this he deserves what happens.

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  • Old Truckers
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 4:56pm

    For 1,300 years,,,,,,they have learned nothing!

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  • BOMUSTGO
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 4:55pm

    It would be safer if the had “The running of the Bulldogs!”

    Report Post » BOMUSTGO  
  • poverty.sucks
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 4:55pm

    Are you Saved? If you were to die running with the Bulls, would you go to Heaven?

    http://www.PeaceWithGod.Jesus.Net

    Report Post » poverty.sucks  
    • BOMUSTGO
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 4:57pm

      Not after you explained why you were letting a bull chase you!

      Report Post » BOMUSTGO  
    • Robert DeBeaux
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 5:39pm

      It astounds me that just because it is a free forum, people feel they MUST taint the comments with religious overtones such as yours. Who the Hell cares, (besides you).
      If I were manning the Pearly gates, I would question this idiot who voluntarily risked his life for a temporary high.
      Either way, I do not wish to hear, read, or suffer the continued aggravation of yet another religious nutcase who still has not figured out that LIVING your life to the fullest is what the free will thingy is all about.
      Do right by your fellow man, and teach what you learned. These are GODS tenets, and he will reward you. Not because you read a chapter and verse in a book.
      Think of this if you can, you have at the most 80 to 90 years to LIVE.
      The rest of eternity (by your standards) you will be staring in awe at a glorified figure and you won’t care for anything else every again for the rest of time, EVER, FOREVER.
      Wow, when I put it like that, I really want to use God’s gifts to live, and free will to think and grow and leave my legacy rather be forgotten like most are.
      Either way this ain’t the place for you to convert someone by posting your crude website.
      UGH!!!!

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 6:15pm

      ROBERT — gotta agree with you

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    • teddrunk
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 6:47pm

      Robert…Chill Out…I’ve got it, you don’t want to read a post that mentions religion. You, like the nuts that want to tear down a Court House 10 Commandment display or a Christmas Nativity Scene, can’t handle any mention or display about God. You‘re precious self gets so offended reading something religious that you decide you don’t want to give someone their right of free speech. Perhaps the Huffington Post is more your style.

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    • poverty.sucks
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 7:15pm

      Dear Mr Debeaux, You are intrigued with stories about death, so am I.

      Report Post » poverty.sucks  
  • BOMUSTGO
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 4:53pm

    Dumb people!

    Report Post » BOMUSTGO  
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