Utah man loses his spleen in a unique out-patient setting with no anesthetic and maximum invasiveness.

The moment of truth at the link.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/07/1...tival-in-pamplona-loses/?test=latestnews

I've got to say, just because Ernest Hemingway did something once and got away with it, that doesn't mean it's a good idea.

I thought that they blunted the bulls' horns in that particular contest, but it seems not.

A the photo below shows, at least the bozo on question seems to be getting a nice close up on his camera phone!



John

About as dumb as you can get.

That hurts just watching it.

My spleen even tingled out of sympathy.

That will buff right out.

At least he didn't drop his cell phone.

Buff-Buffalo-Bull. I see what you did there.

Spleens are overrated.

Look at the bull's face. I'll bet he's saying Man, I always wanted to do this!


P

Ah, then do NOT scroll down to look at the bullfighter picture below. Graphic warning!

I was rooting for the bull.























John

It's simply foreshadowing the stock market and his life's savings.

dammit John, bad timing there.

I posted and it came up and all I saw was the dental work....

HO LEE [bleep].

Ah, sorry!

Here is the other photo I tried to link in my first post (but obviously failed).

This shows why I root for the bull at least...



John

He needed a bigger spear.

As an example, I remember Jerry Rivers (aka Geraldo Rivera) doing the stunt.

Steve.

I found this while googling "gored by bull" images.

Not sure WTF it really is, but apparently the bull's bad attitude is due to excessive gas.

"Now you're going to feel a slight pinch." - Bull

Looks like a fairly honorable goring to me, and the chicks will dig the scars. There's been two or three cases of guys getting it straight up the butt

The landowner has some of these, on my deer lease. I may get to share a pasture with them, too...hmmm....

I never thought of that point!

The guy below isn't going to pick up many chicks by showing them the scar that resulted from the goring below.



On the other hand, if he is gay, it might be just the right ice breaker: "Wanna see my bullfighting scar?"

John

Mess with the bull, you get the horn....

what you get for texting in the Bull Pen

The caption under that pic got a laugh out of me.

Rough day at the office...

Question for you old guys --- is that how it feels to get a prostate check up ....

Ahh! that's the one! I think photobucket deleted my copy...

I seem to recall the story when that happened - that doctors described the injuries as "horrendous"

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes!

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I managed to dodge them on my run. What a thrill. Definitely a bucket list item and an event everyone should witness or participate in once in their lives. I am the guy in the tan OU cap looking for an opening.

Perry

A testament to the power cell phones have in our lives. Dang bull has a horn buried in the guy's spleen and he continues to hold on to his cell phone.

Be my guest PWN, I'll pass. Different strokes for different folks.

I have known this guy's family for over 25 years. He was a HS valedictorian, football player, from a strong Christian family. Quite a quiet and respectful man; probably the last person I would think likely to get this particular 15 minutes of fame. We have offered airline miles to the family so that one of the parents can go bring him home.

I will have to ask Patrick how he kept his phone. I watched the video of the incident and the bull merely flicked his head at Patrick as he ran by--almost so fast you don't see it happen. I don't think he even had time to think about dropping it.

None of you wimps ever wanted to go to the festival of San Fermin? Hemingway would not think you very Manly.

My Dad was stationed at Zaragoza and had a Hemingway phase, but as a Nebraska farm kid, never was crazy or stupid enough.
I "manage" some Corriente roping stock these days, they are good cows but I ALWAYS pay attention. Hookem Horns is for Texas football, not for me.
There is one yearling bull in the herd right now, he is going to be a fine bull. You should see his horns already and what he does to pillowcases and old T-shirts.

I did some day player work on a project that involved a number of fighting bulls.. they kept them in a tarped off pen when not working. Just the sight of a person pissed them the [bleep] off.

Scary critters, but I still root for them. Especially when they're [bleep] up drunk australians .

I always love the shots of the azzhats, especially the picadors, getting a good horn job/ Bully for the bulls...

It's too bad there wasn't a camera rolling, when the landowner drove me around. We come around a corner, and I see the Corrientes, and say, "ahhhh...what...kind...of...cattle...are...those?"

�It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.� Teddy Roosevelt

I ran this year, my 50th on the planet. This quote pretty well sums up my feelings on running with the bulls.

Perry

Oh, I understand, even though I've no desire to run with bulls.

I do hope to visit this young lady again this year. She'll be 2 years older, than when this pic was taken:

PWN,

That sums it up nicely. No real point in having balls after all unless you are going to use them...for something.

The Roosevelt quote can explain the runnings I guess, but I was always partial to the John Wayne quote:

"Life is tough, but it's much tougher when you're stupid."

Keep in mind that in The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway's novel that includes bullfights, the main character's dick doesn't work.


P

A condition Hemingway observed while recouping. Hems heros always faught the impossible fight.

Frankly bull fighting is the only thing in mexico i would like to see in the USA. Jose Tomas is a brilliant artist.

Hemingway could write but he was off in the head. If you recall, he shot himself.

Pamplona is on the "El Camino de Santiago" its on my bucket list. As for running with the bulls, I thought about it once, when I was a lot younger. Commonsense prevailed.

Fellow 'Fire folks;
To no one in particular this morning and perhaps for the edification of just as many, I'll offer a couple bull stories from the mountain grazing leases of interior British Columbia.

We were moving the herd (55 cow/calf pairs & 3 bulls) across the valley one day which meant they all had to be moved down a couple miles, bunched up and loaded onto a cattle liner.

The pairs were penned and we'd begun to run the first load up the chute when two of the bulls began to have a social discussion right where our three horses were tied. They were good steady cow horses and were trying to ignore these lesser creatures as usual, but the bulls were doing their level best to be a nuisance of some significance that morning.

The rancher instructed me to cut a couple 12' willows for us and peel the branches off 'em - to make magic wands to convince the bulls to find another spot to play.

We made up the oversize hot dog sticks in record time and proceeded to apply them to the fighting bulls with enthusiasm and vigor.......they barely paid us any attention whatsoever.

I'd suspect - based upon over a decade of being an Occupational First Aid Attendant at work among other life experience with human trauma - that any two of the licks we were administering to the bulls would have near hospitalized a human.

This other time one of the herd bulls picked up a bit of hoof rot or something that required me to administer two doses of tetracycline.

He "resisted" our initial attempts to stretch him out to a handy tree, so we picked out a nice young cow that he'd follow and ran them both down the mountain a bit to the nearest loading chute.

These chutes are constructed with posts of 8"-10" diameter that are driven in deep and then skookum rails installed onto the king size posts.

So we got this cow to run the chute, the bull naturally followed and we got a stout fence rail in front of his brisket and another behind his tail.

The largest of us there that day was an RCMP Sargent in the real world and weighed at least 50lb more than my 160lb, so we had him make my lasso into a makeshift halter for the ailing bull. My late friend installed the halter, put at least two - maybe it was three - wraps around the closest 10" post, pulled the bulls nose to the post and nodded to me to hop up on the chute and administer the penicillin.

The bull didn't know what was coming for the first needle in his butt, but he sensed my intent somehow for the next one.

Although he didn't buck the entire chute down we were all impressed at how much it moved - with him having his nose firmly snubbed in and all. All the while my rancher buddy is holding the horses, looking up at me straddling the moving chute and saying, "Quit fooling around up there Dwayne and give him the needle before he wrecks the chute!"

I suppose that since I can share these bovine tales with you folks that it might possibly indicate I'd be interested in more and greater adventures with bulls. Those who'd read that into it couldn't be more wrong.

All the best to you all this mid July weekend, may all your encounters with bulls have safe endings.

Regards,
Dwayne

Thanks Dwayne, have a good weekend

they WAY over-penetrate on humans...

Interesting insight there and good of you to help him/his family in this situation.

There seems to be good reason why folks root in favor of the bulls. Even valedectorians, football players and nice Christian families sometimes don't get it. The reasoning is akin to honorable hunting - admire the beast, honor the beast, take its life swiftly and surely if you will, and then give at least a moment of respect at its death.

Animals are not meant to be tortured, taunted and dared to act. Almost any creature will react with animal survivial instinct when in a corner, and those with big power, speed and determination can easily exact their due. Torture or taunt it, and get your due.