Bahnofstrasse Posted May 24, 2010 Share Posted May 24, 2010 Wow! http://unionesarda.ilsole24ore.com/Articol...1&id=181621 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkz Posted May 24, 2010 Share Posted May 24, 2010 Ouch!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeafLover Posted May 24, 2010 Share Posted May 24, 2010 Wow!! Hope the man is okay. Nevertheless, many bulls around the world, present and past, is cheering from this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bahnofstrasse Posted May 24, 2010 Author Share Posted May 24, 2010 My good friends in Sardenga sent this over to me and translated the Italian. I guess the Bullfighter did live. I don't have any idea how, but I guess he did make it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Gargett Posted May 24, 2010 Share Posted May 24, 2010 as gruesome as it is, that is an awesome photo. we had a big thread on bullfighting a while back (must be time to revive that as rob takes away every other bit of controversy). i well remember having a hoot at a bullfighting afternoon in barcelona. at one stage, it was bulls leading two to one. one of the blokes was still in intensive care 6 days later. it reminds me of a combination of ballet and state of origin. i also learnt that cheering for the bulls was considered poor form. but you sit in the afternoon sun and they bring beers and you can enjoy a cigar and have a great time. we also had one bull refuse to fight (bringing great shame on the breeder) - they bring in half a dozen oxen which trot around and then leave and usually the bull leaves with them (all very not wanting to fight but you still have a large grumpy bull in the ring you have to get out somehow). this happened but to shame the bull even more, one of the ox stayed in the ring and wantd to fight. the locals told me they'd never seen that before. and yes, hope the bloke is recovering well but remember that no one made him go in and he was trying to kill the bull and he gets well paid, so really, i'd be saving my sympathy for those more deserving (if indeed, sympathy is a finite quality). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asmith Posted May 24, 2010 Share Posted May 24, 2010 I read in the paper that he walked out of the stadium to the cheers of the crowd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Gargett Posted May 24, 2010 Share Posted May 24, 2010 one thing - to the side of the photos re this, there are other sets of photos including a body painting event held here in queensland. had not heard of it locally (now getting local news from a sardinian website!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Gargett Posted May 24, 2010 Share Posted May 24, 2010 checked the courier mail and there is actually a video of it - a reuters report. happens so quickly that even more amazing to get that photo. went through tongue, jaw, palate but not brain. he is stable and remained conscious. started to walk away - got up immediately - but they carried him off. it was his first fight of the day and he is apparently quite well known. they then showed the bull copping it from the next matador. i rather think the right thing would have been to send it out to pasture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bahnofstrasse Posted May 24, 2010 Author Share Posted May 24, 2010 checked the courier mail and there is actually a video of it - a reuters report. happens so quickly that even more amazing to get that photo. went through tongue, jaw, palate but not brain. he is stable and remained conscious. started to walk away - got up immediately - but they carried him off. it was his first fight of the day and he is apparently quite well known. they then showed the bull copping it from the next matador. i rather think the right thing would have been to send it out to pasture. Ken...can you post the link to the Reuters video? I cannot imagine how he just got up a walked away? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bahnofstrasse Posted May 24, 2010 Author Share Posted May 24, 2010 Ken...can you post the link to the Reuters video?I cannot imagine how he just got up a walked away? Got it... http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=90406510 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Gargett Posted May 24, 2010 Share Posted May 24, 2010 Got it...http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=90406510 glad you managed to do that as i had no idea. more of a stumbling than walking i guess but a very lucky man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Presidente Posted May 24, 2010 Share Posted May 24, 2010 That was a great photo. Agreed ken...if the Bull gets a "TKO" then that should be leave pass for a life of luxury bonking other cows and talking to young bulls around the water trough about his day in the sun. love the bullfights! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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