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A general view of Estafeta street crowded with runners or 'mozos', prior to the first bull run of the Sanfermines 2012 in Pamplona, northern Spain, July 7. Sanfermines is a week-long festival celebrated to honor San Fermin, the town's patron saint.
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A reveler is tossed by a Dolores Aguirre Yabarra ranch fighting bull during the running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival, in Pamplona Spain, July 7.
Joseba Etxaburu / Reuters
Revellers taunt a fighting cow in the Plaza de Toros following the first running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona July 7.
Joseba Etxaburu / Reuters
A fighting cow leaps over bull runners in the Plaza de Toros following the first running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona July 7. After the bull run, runners remain in the bullring and small fighting cows are released.
Daniel Ochoa De Olza / AP
Revelers kiss in the early morning, during the San Fermin festival, in Pamplona Spain, July 7.
The San Fermin running of the bulls festival became world famous with the publication of Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises." It is also known around the world for its wild all-night street parties which commemorate the city's patron saint. Today was the first running of the bulls for this year's festivities and six people were injured in a race that lasted 2 minutes, 53 seconds.
See more photos from Pamplona on PhotoBlog.
The annual event for daring thrill-seekers began Saturday in Pamplona, Spain.
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I definetly root for the Bulls
A real man's sport!
This is is one way to prove your momma snatched the brains out of your head as a child.
Perhaps they should rename the event to "The Running of the Idiots."
that's because you're an idiot. to each his own, i suppose.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
The smartest people are the spectators. Now if they combined the hot dog eating contest with the running of the bulls, that would make some right awful graphic pictures. Ole!
What a pack of 'brainless, barbaric, cruel 'Mozos', noe it is just the beginning of the Spanish to enjoy the slow slaughter of these animals in the name of sport, let the bustards starve in their economic downfall,
Viva la BULL.
What a pack of cruel, brainless, barbaric 'mozos', now it is the beginning of the slow slaughter of these animals in the name of sport. let the Spanish starve in their time of economic downfall.
Viva la BULL.
I like the last picture best....
Mess with the bull, you'll get the horns.
just pls dont hurt the bulls
I wouldn't want to be stuck wearing white pants if I were in the same position as some of the folks in these photos. Go bulls!
I blame Hemingway for making it so well known
I know. I read that in school and it's on my bucket list to go see in person, not participate. Hope those clowns at PETA don't screw it up in the next 5 years.
I don't think PETA has a lot of influence in Spain. Bull fighting would probably be further up their list anyway.
Unfortunately, I doubt many of those fools running with the bulls have even read "The Sun Also Rises".
some of these people don't really know what they are dealing with. i used to raise bulls and believe me , you never turn your back to them. they don't realize how strong they are and can hurt you with a touch.
By the volume of garbage in the street, they should call this the running of the pigs. Do they not own garbage bags or cans in Spain?
The second picture shows why a 500lb bull and a humans neck don't play well together. Too close to death for me.
Have you ever been to a festival of any kind in a Foreign country? There is garbage and the street cleaners will work all through the night to clean it up. Have you ever been to a parade in the United States? How about a bus stop for that matter. There is just as much garbage, the only difference is no one comes through and cleans it up...If you want to argue that then I will say you live in a high income area or a small town, if you want to see the truth go to Milwaukee, WI, Chicago, IL, or Detroit MI.
have you ever been to new orleans for mardi gras the trash is half way up to your knees I know I lived there and they don't worry about cleaning up until the wee hours (4am to 6am) in the morning because the cleaners couldn't get down the streets if they tried, and many american cities have that much trash on the streets without a festival. Most european cities require shops and property owners to keep the sidewalk and streets in front of their property clean and swept. Here we're to busy kissing the a** of buisnesses
Good news!! With unemployment so high in Spain, it appears that plenty of street cleaning work will be available.
Street cleaning,,, what about brain cleaning.
Animal Cruelty.
i would think the bulls love this part, but to kill them in the ring is stupid and cruel
This part is very dangerous for the bulls too. They slip and break bones, they are frightened and spooked which leads to various injuries. What follows this run is a bullfight which follows the usual process of antagonizing the animal, repeatedly spearing into his spinal cord to weaken him and then finishing him off, eventually. When riders on horseback are involved in the fight the horses too are often gored.
Animal Cruelty.
The entire point of Running With the Bulls is to allow the bulls payback for what humans do to them in the ring.
Awesome looks like so much fun. Much better then any American tradition. I wonder why its never caught on here? :P
kevin001 --- i'll take thanksgiving and christmas over trying to outrun an angry bull.
It never caught on here because we have a better sense of what the word 'inhumane' means. ON THE OTHER HAND - if you look deep enough there is enough animal abuse in the US - I do like the fact that the bulls are getting some payback.
They should stop this and bull fighting. Both show a social psychosis that is not at all conducive to a Civilized Country.
Umm...did you happen to notice the ":P" at the end? The statement was pure sarcasm.
Go bulls!!
Sad, when even the bulls have a lower unemployment rate, than the people.
I think the bulls are a little horny.
A really sick sport !! What is the point of this "blood sport" ? Do you harbor feelings of male inadequacy and need to prove "I'm macho" by turning your back on a bull running at you ? Why not simply step out into the street and get hit by a speeding bus. Much easier to perform and you are your own sacrifice; after the days "running of the bulls" they are killed in a bullfight.
Fighting cow??? There is no such thing. If it was, where is the hump? That is a steer which run along with the bulls and guide them to the ring.
I think we need one of these the streets of L.A. or Chicago
I hope the bulls get more then one
Out of their freaking minds.
Those hombres should be out looking for work instead.
I love to see the participants gets gored or seriously hurt as they feel nothing of torturing the animals. Go bulls!!!!
Trampled? Yes. Gored? Not a chance from the pictures shown here. All the bulls I noticed either had their horn tips shaved down or clipped or they were wrapped in black duct tape with a squarish (reminded me of the end of a hockey stick) end attached.
You didn't notice THIS PICTURE in the story?
Nothing square about those horns.
Have you seen an eye doctor recently?
Just because some are done that way it doesn't mean all are.
People have been gored in the past.
No bulls were killed or injured in the making of this movie ....
Just wait for the next instalment!!!.
Running of the morons. Trimming the gene pool.
Torturing animals.