Pamplona Bull Run 2016 (VIDEO)

Well, the running actually looks kinda fun, and take a good look, because who knows how long this will continue? Leftists are ramping up their protests.

From the other day, "Animal Rights Activists Poured Artificial Blood Over Themselves in Pamplona, Spain (VIDEO)."

It's PETA, "RUNNING OF THE BULLS - PAMPLONA - BULL FIGHT PROTEST - PETA."

And via Euronews:

Animal Rights Activists Poured Artificial Blood Over Themselves in Pamplona, Spain (VIDEO)

You know, after posting all the bullfighting videos over the years, I'm very sympathetic to this protest.

It's not just about killing the animals, which I don't oppose in terms of food production, etc. It's should we be making a sport out of it, a full spectacle which is obviously barbaric in some respects? Frankly, I've been to bull fights in Mexico, and it feels like you're at any other sporting event. But then, you kill the animal.

In any case, something to think about.

Watch, at Euronews, "Pamplona: Topless protesters pour fake blood over themselves prior to bull run."

Daredevils Charge Bulls at Festivals in Spain

At WSJ, "To These Bull Runners, Pamplona Is for Wimps: Those Looking for a Lot of Bull Stampede Into Spain's Tiny Towns":

ALCALÁ DE CHIVERT, Spain—For daredevils the world over, Pamplona’s running of the bulls is a once-in-a-lifetime thrill, a chance to charge alongside 1,200-pound beasts hurtling down narrow streets.

For Saul Boix, the annual dash is a cakewalk.

“In Pamplona, you run with the bulls for about two minutes,” the 26-year-old Spaniard said. What really beefs up his adrenaline, he said, is spending an entire day at a town festival, provoking one bull after another to charge him, or if that fails, charging directly at the bull.

“In the small towns,” Mr. Boix said, “you have hours with the animals.”

Every year across Spain, bull-obsessed adrenaline addicts seek their fix by traveling from town to town to participate in local iterations of Pamplona. They’re a haphazard group, so it is hard to hit the bull’s-eye on their numbers—at least several hundred, according to fans and some of the men themselves.

The Mediterranean coastal region of Valencia, Mr. Boix’s home turf, holds around 7,000 festivals each year that feature bulls and cows with horns, mainly in the summer and autumn.

“Where there’s a bull, there’s a fiesta,” said Francisco Miró Simó, 62, president of the club that organizes a festival in nearby Alquerías de Santa Bárbara. “If there are no bulls, only a quarter of the people would show up” at festivals, he said.

“We are always with bulls,” Mr. Boix said of his fellow itinerants. They are often called recortadores, those who intercept the bull’s path, quickly sidestep its charging horns, then use their bodies like a bullfighter’s cape to steer the animal around. They are also called corredores, or runners, when sprinting alongside the animals.

“They see risk as a kind of entertainment,” said José Ramón Caballero de la Calle, a veterinary professor at Spain’s University of Castilla-La Mancha who treats festival bulls...

I love it.

Keep reading.

BONUS: Flashback to 2010, "Julio Aparicio, Spanish Bullfighter, Gored at Feria San Isidro, Plaza de Toros de las Ventas, Madrid (May 21, 2010)."

Plus, more at my "Pamplona" search link.

Tourists Gored at Pamplona's San Fermin Bull Run (VIDEO)

At Euronews, "Tourists gored by bulls during San Fermin 'bull run'."

And at Telegraph UK, "Pamplona Running of the Bulls - by numbers."

Pamplona Bull Runner Gored Right Through the Leg!

One of the worst scenes out of Pamplona I can remember, and I blog this every year. Man.

Watch at the video below.

London's Daily Mail has the stop action photos, with the man horribly gored: "Gory scenes in Pamplona: The eye-watering moment a runner was gored through the leg during the final running of the bulls at Spain's San Fermin festival."

Horrific! Runners Gored at Pamplona Running of the Bulls 2013

Happens every summer, with gory results.

At London's Daily Mail, "Horrific scenes on the streets of Pamplona as three men are brutally gored in bloodiest day yet of this year’s Running of the Bulls."

Video c/o Blazing Cat Fur.

Bull Goes on the Rampage at Bous a la Mers Festival in Denia, Spain

I'm getting a kick out of this stuff.

At London's Daily Mail, "Running at full speed with horns out to attack: Shocking moment a raging bull rammed a fearless reveller into the sea."

And lots more from Canada's National Post, "Picture Post: Will this Pamplona bull hit the running target?"

Three Gored During Monday's Running of the Bulls in Pamplona

Some of the other outlets, like Telegraph UK, have edited the video.

But the Guardian has a raw cut, "Pamplona bull run: Britons and American gored - video."

PREVIOUSLY: "Man Dragged by a Bull at Pamplona 2012."

Man Dragged by a Bull at Pamplona 2012

This is amazing.

Watch especially around 50 seconds at the clip. I guess the guy's lucky it was just his neckerchief that got caught on the horns.

And see the Independent UK, "Five injured in Pamplona running of the bulls."

Running of the Bulls

At USA Today, "1 gored, 6 others hurt in running of the bulls."

And lots of pics at Daily Mail, "Get out of my way! The bulls of Pamplona go running… over the backs of revellers." And The Sun, "It's crush hour in Pamplona."

Full Metal Saturday: Anna Faris

The House Bunny's been on Cinemax lately (or Showtime, or Starz ... I can't remember; we get 'em all). It's a funny movie, but I'm seriously in love with Anna Faris. If she's as nice in person as she is in the film, well, God bless her! So, please enjoy this wonderful woman for this week's Full Metal Saturday.

As always, Smitty's got a fabulous roundup of "Rule 5" bloggers, "Fortunately, My Jaw Rebounded Admirably."

And TrogloPundit's been laying down some impressive rounds of linkage back to this blog, for example, "Man Killed Running the Bulls in Pamplona." But Troglo's got some hot Rule 5 action as well. See, "Hayden Panettiere Was the Unpopular Kid in School." The dude's really generous on the Full Metal Reach-Around principle, and if you send it, he will link.

See also, Pat in Shreveport, "Cold Beer Full Metal Jacket Saturday," and No Sheeples Here!, "Full Metal Jacket Reach-Around For Saturday, July 11, 2009."

At Generation Patriot we have, "Sunday Linkage Beyond Your Wildest Dreams!" Also, at The Daley Gator, "Kinky Linky Saturday Reach Around!." Not to be outdone, check The Classical Liberal, "Ali Larter presents Rule 5 Saturday!" And Chris Wysocki, "Rule 5 Weekend: the girls of LBI."

And for some good ole' conservative blogging, see PA Pundits International, "The Bankrupt Party of Porkulus."

And please don't forget some additional friends of American Power:

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Man Gored to Death in Pamplona's Running of the Bulls (VIDEO)

It's the fist time since 1995. See CNN, "Man Killed in Pamplona's Running of the Bulls."

Video Hat Tip: The New York Times, "Man Killed by Bull in Pamplona."

See also, Bloomberg, "Pamplona Bull Runner Gored to Death, 11 More Injured":

A 27-year-old Spanish man died after a fighting bull gored him in the neck at the Pamplona bull- running festival that was made famous by Ernest Hemingway and attracts thousands of foreigners each year.

The victim, Daniel Jimeno Romero from Alcala de Henares, a town near Madrid, was wounded in the neck and chest, the regional government of Navarra said in a statement on its Web site. Five of 11 people injured were released from the hospital. The others include a 61-year-old American man in intensive care, a 63-year-old American with less serious injuries, a 20-year-old Londoner with a thigh wound and a 24-year-old Argentine.