Showing posts with label Running with the bulls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Running with the bulls. Show all posts

Saturday, July 13, 2013

PETA flags Rex Ryan for running with the bulls

Rex Ryan has more than just Jets fans horning into his off-season activities these days.

Animal-rights group PETA is now criticizing the New York Jets coach for helping kick off the annual San Fermin Festival by joining thousands in the running with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, on Sunday and Monday.

Everyone together.  P-E-T-A Peta! Peta! Peta! 

Michelle Cho, PETA’S associate director, sent Ryan a letter Thursday asking him to refrain from future bull runs and clued him in on the abuse the animals endure — including death by sword.

“I implore you … to pledge never again to participate in this cruel event,” Cho wrote.



“An aspect of the cruel spectacle that you likely didn’t witness is that prior to runs, bulls are held in corrals, where the scared and confused animals are jabbed with electric prods and sharp sticks in order to rile them,” Cho wrote.



Ryan — who was ridiculed for having a Mark Sanchez tattoo while vacationing last winter — joined thousands of thrill-seekers running with the bulls in the annual celebration. Photos captured the red-scarfed coach frantically bulldozing through the crowd as one of the angry beasts jabs a participant. A video shows the slimmed down coach clumsily trying scale a fence while a bull rampages down a narrow street.


The Jets declined to comment.

Friday, July 12, 2013

Three gored — including one American— during running of the bulls (Graphic photos)

An American and two Spaniards were gored Friday during a danger-filled sixth bull run of Spain's San Fermin festival, with one loose bull causing panic in the packed streets of the city of Pamplona.

Panic escalated when one of the animals charged a man and tossed him on the ground with its horns for almost 30 seconds as fellow runners tried to pull it away by its tail. The man clung to one of the horns as screams of were heard all around.

The unbelievable photos show one man with a horn about ten inches deep into his thigh.



Helpers eventually dragged the victim to safety by his feet. The local Diario de Navarra newspaper said the man was from Morella, Spain, but this could not be immediately confirmed.

The regional government of Navarra said one American and two Spaniards were gored in the run while another American and two Spaniards were also taken to city hospitals for other injuries suffered in falls and trampling during the frenzied event.



The government press office identified the American gored only by his initials — P.E. — and gave his age as 20. The local paper said he was injured in the abdomen.

None of the six taken to the hospital was said to be in serious condition.

Good for the bull.

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