The Pamplona bull running festival in Spain is over again for another year. But it's not the only place where this sort of barbaric so-called entertainment occurs. Bull fighting takes place in many other countries around the world too.
Bull fighting has been granted "cultural heritage status" to protect it from being banned.
The only good news to ever come from such events is where a human participant, hopefully as many possible, get severely injured, preferably gored. Whenever I see clips from Pamplona or any other thing to do with bull fighting in general I always cheer when bull-to-human contact is made and hope to see at least broken bones, a punctured lung, or preferably a combination of those, including spilled blood. The best outcome of all the injuries is, of course, those which result in death of the human, hopefully it's not immediate either. Matador's, although often revered, are some of the most detested.
Sadly, apparently, only 15 people have died as a result of injuries due to this horrendous entertainment and tourist attraction in Pamplona, I wish it were more. If I were Spanish I would be very embarrassed and feel ashamed. I despise it and all those who promote it, attend it, or otherwise positively participate in it.
Do the bulls get hurt in the Pamplona bull run?
During the bull run the bulls usually do not get hurt, but they may bruise themselves if they slip and fall.
In the evening at 6 p.m. the bulls are killed during the bullfights in the bullfight arena. Particularly brave bulls may be pardoned by the audience and left to die a natural death, but this rarely ever happens.
A clip from the closing day of the 8-day bull run in Pamplona, 2014.
Good news: Two Australian and one Spanish runner were gored.
A clip from last year's Pamplona where one participant got it where it hurts:
