Spanish Bullfighter Gored In Throat
There’s a familiar adage that I try and live my life by: Mess with the bull, you get the horns.
I wonder what they say about that at bull fighter school. I’m sure it’s scoffed at. They laugh at people like me.
Well, today I’M LAUGHING.
As [bullfighter Julio] Aparicio held his red cape and sword out to face down the 1,100-pound beast named Opiparo at the Feria de San Isidor bullfighting event in Las Ventanas, Spain, the bullfighter lost his footing and the bull was able to strike.
I’d imagine “losing your footing” generally results in that photo above.
“[The horn] went though the tongue and penetrated the roof of the mouth, fracturing the jawbone,” one of the medics who worked on Aparicio told AFP news in Madrid.
After some surgery, it appears Aparicio will be OK.
As for the bull? Well, the bull was killed. How dare it follow its natural instinct?
This is not an animal rights post. This is a common sense post. Boxers, bullfighters, race car drivers, stunt doubles — the occupational hazards are there. So when the hazard strikes, it shouldn’t be shocking.
As I said up top, THERE’S A SAYING for what happened to Aparicio.
If you care to see it in action, here it is….it’s about as nasty as the photo:
Talk about a Bull Market…