July 18th, 2007
Caught the news item “Judge punishes dad for bull running” on Reuters yesterday morning.
A Spanish man who took his 10-year-old son bull running during the annual Pamplona festival last week has had his visitation rights to the boy taken away by a judge.
The youngster’s mother complained to police after seeing a newspaper photograph of her ex-husband leading their son by the arm just a few feet in front of the bulls, El Mundo reported on Tuesday.
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At least 15 people have been killed running the bulls in Pamplona since 1924. During the nine-day festival, made world famous by Ernest Hemingway in his novel “The Sun Also Rises”…
Which I finished reading right now.
…I saw the bulls just coming out of the street into the long running pen. They were going fast and gaining on the crowd. Just then another drunk started out from the fence with a blouse in his hands. He wanted to do capework with the bulls. The two policemen tore out, collared him, one hit him with a club, and they dragged him against the fence and stood flattened out against the fence as the last of the crowd and the bulls went by. There were so many people running ahead of the bulls that the mass thickened and slowed up going through the gate into the ring, and as the bulls passed, galloping together, heavy, muddy-sided, horns swinging, one shot ahead, caught a man in the running crowd in the back and lifted him in the air.
“The Sun Also Rises” - Ernest Hemingway
July 25th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
yeah… we heard about that guy and his son. apparantly he’s got life because he let his underage son do the running of the bulls… which is only allowed for 18 and up.