Unlucky Toreador

[Guest ncm2169]

Check out the video in the upper right hand corner of the window:

 

http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-gb&fg=rss&vid=da2c1992-9ff4-4874-88f5-9901b87c1cb1&from=en-gb

[Greathands]

The poor guy decides to retire from bullfighting after being gored 55 times in 4 years.

 

Geez. Slow learner, huh?

[pierrot]

I'd say he's very lucky to be alive. Sorry to be culturally biased, but this is an idiotic and cruel sport that should be abandoned in civilization.

[Guest ncm2169]

Would you add boxing to that list?

[+ deej]

Wouldn't take much to make the same case for American football.

[pierrot]

No I wouldn't add boxing or football because however brutal those sports are, the players participate of their own free will. They choose to take part and only they are harmed. In bullfighting, the animal is abused, eventually killed as an "entertainment" for people.

[Guest ncm2169]

< the animal is abused, eventually killed as an "entertainment" for people.

 

I agree with you about the cruelty of the sport, but as I understand it, in Colombia (where this event occurred) the bull is not killed.

 

As for boxing, while the participants may be "volunteers", the activity (I refuse to call it a "sport") appeals to an audience which possesses a blood-thirst for man on man violence and bloodshed. In short, it is uncivilized, pure and simple.