Bull leaps into crowd! amazing video.

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freejumps

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while I don't agree with bullfighting, it's hilarious to read all of the posts here getting worked up over bullfighting while we forget about slaughterhouses. hypocrites. and yes, I'm one of them
 
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destrekor

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while I don't agree with bullfighting, it's hilarious to read all of the posts here getting worked up over bullfighting while we forget about slaughterhouses. and yea I eat meat

Ideally, slaughterhouse animals are to be killed in a speedy, humane manner.

Death sport isn't exactly speedy or humane.

I do not disagree nor agree with bullfighting - it's just kind of "there" to me, and I really could not care any less. I don't exactly think it's right, but I don't think it's so wrong that it warrants out attention more than the other things wrong in our civilization around the world.
 

GagHalfrunt

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I always root for the bulls and I wish this one had done more damage to the crowd. Really impressive athleticism for such a huge animal, that's quite a leap.



that's just the angle of the pic right?
it didn't actually go through his neck/chin and out his mouth. i see no blood.


Nope, he got gored in the neck. What you see is what you get.
 

JulesMaximus

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Unlike in real Spanish bull fights where they just keep sticking them in the spine until they die very slow to extend the enjoyment of the crowds. Right?

Have you ever been to a Bullfight? I have and it is pretty brutal and bloody in the end. The bright spot is sometimes the Bull Wins.

Bullfighting (also known as tauromachy, from Greek ταυρομάχη – tavromache, "bull-fight"; or as corrida de toros in Spanish) is a traditional spectacle of Spain, Portugal, southern France and Latin American countries, in which one or more bulls are ritually killed in a bullring as a public spectacle. In Portugal it is illegal to kill a bull in the arena. A nonlethal variant stemming from Portuguese influence is also practiced on the Tanzanian island of Pemba.[1]
The tradition, as it is practiced today, involves professional toreros (toureiros in Portuguese; also referred to as toreadors in English), who execute various formal moves in order to subdue the bull. Such maneuvers are performed at close range, which places the bullfighter at risk of being gored or trampled. The bullfight usually concludes with the killing of the bull by a sword thrust. In Portugal the finale consists of a tradition called the pega, where men (forcados) try to grab and hold the bull by its horns when it runs at them.

I haven't been to a bull fight but when I was in Spain a couple years ago I did watch a bit of one on TV in our hotel room but I turned it off after only a few minutes. I found it disgusting and not something I wanted to watch.
 

Jeff7

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If this happened in America, it would have immediately gotten stabbed and/or shot.
If this had happened in America, it would have been either a racecar or a monster truck flying into the audience.
 

bigi

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really, I didn't realize those big matherfuckers can jump this well.

Go Bulls.
 

coldmeat

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I do not disagree nor agree with bullfighting - it's just kind of "there" to me, and I really could not care any less. I don't exactly think it's right, but I don't think it's so wrong that it warrants out attention more than the other things wrong in our civilization around the world.

Well the thing is, how difficult would it be to put a stop to bullfighting? It's not like poverty or world hunger, but it would be so damn easy to stop it and the world would be better without it.

I don't see how you could not "disagree" with it when you see the video posted with the bull rolling around on the ground spewing blood out it's nose.
 

destrekor

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Well the thing is, how difficult would it be to put a stop to bullfighting? It's not like poverty or world hunger, but it would be so damn easy to stop it and the world would be better without it.

I don't see how you could not "disagree" with it when you see the video posted with the bull rolling around on the ground spewing blood out it's nose.

Because I don't really care. Seriously.

Animal cruelty does indeed suck, and people who do it for shit and giggles also suck. Thus, matadors suck.
But, I really can't find a lick of Care in my body, and if I did, there is slightly more care for the bull than the human.

And hell, sometimes the bull wins. :) If I ever watched the event, I'd cheer for the bull.

However, I would greatly encourage keeping the sport around, but replacing both the bull and matador with death-row inmates.
The Romans and their Gladiators were a civilization that knew how to get shit done and get a good show all the same.

Hell, the government could make money off of the death penalty - instead of paying out the ass for lethal injections and all the BS paperwork that goes alongside the procedure.
 
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Analog

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OP. What is amazing about it?

That's quite a jump for a bovine, wouldn't you say?

If its not amazing, show me another time a bull jumps onto a thin barrier, get its hoofs on it square enough to make it up to the next level, which is higher and further from where it started. It is amazing.
 

olds

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That's quite a jump for a bovine, wouldn't you say?

If its not amazing, show me another time a bull jumps onto a thin barrier, get its hoofs on it square enough to make it up to the next level, which is higher and further from where it started. It is amazing.
I've seen other videos where the bull jumped into the stands.
 

StageLeft

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LOL too bad the bull didn't stomp more of these barbarians. That country needs to ban this bullfighting sh*t and stop thinking it's in the 16th century.