I was reading about some world's extreme festivals when l came across the Spanish San Fermin Festival - Running of the Bulls

l have always known about it, with all the attendant injuries and occasional deaths, but l never knew the extent of the injuries till l did a little digging online.

Now, after seeing these images, l could not help but wonder whether to call this a festival or sheer madness!

Read a brief history of the festival here
http://www.thenationalstudent.com/International/2011-07-11/The_death_of_a_tradition.html

(Graphic lmages)

It will interest you to know that despite these horrific injuries, there have been only 15 recorded deaths since 1924!

Feastival... Your Village own fit worse pass this one, who know?

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Retards

Are we to say sorry or what

#mtcheeeew

No words

Horrific

Brutal

Yikes!

Here we go

fromnigeria:
Feastival... Your Village own fit worse pass this one, who know?

What do l make of this?

Raging bulls.

o boy ,dis is madness.

deriod:
o boy ,dis is madness.

Pure madness

This one is not a festival, it's madness

donkarly:

Pure madness

It beats me that these people really derive pleasure from something as dangerous as this

missKiffy:
This one is not a festival, it's madness

Concerned people have moved to ban this festival, not even because of the dangers, but because of animal cruelty; the people vehemently opposed the move saying they would lose their cultural identity were that to happen.
Who will blame them?
The festival has been there for centuries.

Fcking HELL!

I wanna go to this!

Sagamite:
Fcking HELL!

I wanna go to this!

As a participant or a spectator
Sounds like you are an adrenaline junkie

Defcon1:

As a participant or a spectator
Sounds like you are an adrenaline junkie

www.nairaland.com/attachments/2428551_notitle2656_jpega0659bd1a239786ab2d554129189e074



As a FCKING spectator.

You don't understand how much I love myself and my life.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ-5g71Ss5s

Sagamite:


www.nairaland.com/attachments/2428551_notitle2656_jpega0659bd1a239786ab2d554129189e074



As a FCKING spectator.

You don't understand how much I love myself and my life.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ-5g71Ss5s

Na so life they sweet you??

Defcon1:


Na so life they sweet you??

Life is sweet, precious and meaningful o.

It is always Oyinbo guys that are always looking for different ways to kill themselves.

I AM BLAAAAAAAAAAACK!

I wanna live!

Na Oyinbo go say, "You know what? This life is too good and easy! I am gonna go and climb Everest and see if I survive".

I would rather climb into a nice car.

And why people choose to partake in this idiocy is just beyond me. Is the adrenaline rush worth the risk?

Why should any sane individual place himself in the way of a 1500Lb+ raging bull, a beast strong enough to maul a grown lion to death..

Self preservation seems to be something intrinsically lacking in white folks.

This is pure barbarism. The poor animal is taunted and humiliated into reacting in this way, I have no sympathy for these demonic spanish bastards.

Well, a beautiful festival. I like it and wouldn't mind going.
Don't forget machismo does not regard intelligence and humans are prone to engaging in feats of recklessness if they see like-minds participating.


Those saying its barbaric, tell me; is it more barbaric than festivals practiced yearly in your villages whereby for a whole month everybody stays indoors after 20:00 for the fear of getting killed by masquerades? Only when you criticize that can you come here and make noise about another man's culture.

Seun or ishilove, this is an interesting stuff now. move it to fp

Op the is actually a bit difference between this two.

this is a bull race. (just like temple run ) and it is the main festival. Anybody is allowed to run here, spanish or not.
www.nairaland.com/attachments/2428535_americanbenjaminmilley20abovewashurtatthecarnavaldeltorofestivalinciudadrodrigospain_jpeg25df442d569ce71c5de5f082fb0100c3

while this one is the real bull FIGHTING. It is only performed by Matadors in a circus.
www.nairaland.com/attachments/2428551_notitle2656_jpega0659bd1a239786ab2d554129189e074

If it were in Africa they do say we're backward and archaic.
Have you ever seen their Tomato festival? That when you will know those bastar*d are full of wastages. Can you imagine, container over container of Tomatoes just to be trampled upon in the street.






00:12:57
Wed, Jul 15, 2015

cap28:
This is pure barbarism. The poor animal is taunted and humiliated into reacting in this way, I have no sympathy for these demonic spanish bastards.

What actually makes it fight is that they get it heavily drugged.




00:19:02
Wed, Jul 15, 2015

Humans get impaled on a bull's horn.
They called it 'animal cruelty'

Of course, not without saying that the fools probably got what they deserved for deciding to foolishly confront an antagonised creature.

Tooo grisly i prefer believing it was photoshop.