Hundreds Die in Pamplona

Written by PETA

Posted 07-10-2009

For the first time in nearly 15 years, a human has died after being gored by a bull at the Running of the Bulls.

How many bulls have died this time around as a direct result of being gored by humans?

All of them.

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Every year, all bulls who are sent charging down the narrow, winding streets of Pamplona end up in the bullring. We're not talking about one bull here. We're talking hundreds and hundreds over the course of 15 years.

Nobody has died at the Running of the Nudes.

You do the math.

Watch video footage of the Running of the Bulls and goring here.

Written by Shawna Flavell

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Recent Comments

June Dunphy commented:

Jul 13, 2009 2:16 PM

The humans who take part do so through choice and know they may be injured. The innocent bulls have no choice.That this is allowed to continue in these 'enlightened' times is a disgrace. June Dunphy Dumbarton Scotland
Sirkka Levaniemi commented:

Jul 13, 2009 1:33 PM

The fact that something so blatantly cruel backward and barbaric still exists and enjoys popularity to boot can only make me think "way too many human beings both insurpassibly stupid and heartless". Makes me sick. Seriously what's it going to take to stop this??
Lynda commented:

Jul 13, 2009 1:15 PM

Those poor animals are scared to death and only look for a way out away from these people. I honestly can't understand how people can do these kind of things to an animal. Unfortunately I feel no compassion towards the people who get hurt or killed during these events as they did put themselves in that position and they are the ones who are taunting and hurting these animals.
luis lacotera commented:

Jul 13, 2009 12:57 PM

I HOPE MORE HUMANS ARE HURT AND KILLED .STOP CELEBRATING HUMANS AND FEELING SORRY FOR HUMANS... IT IS TIME TO STOP ANIMAL CRUELTY AND THE KILLING ANIMALS .
Elena Aguayo Kelley commented:

Jul 13, 2009 12:41 PM

This has to stop! it is the most barbaric and cruel form of entertainment leave these animals alone look for another ways of having fun.
nursah okay commented:

Jul 13, 2009 12:26 PM

since i was a very little girl it made me so upset and i can not believe that how the spanish people or the goverment does not see that it's something terrible and sick and the people who are having fun with that are deeply mentally disturbed
shay commented:

Jul 13, 2009 11:52 AM

MY GOD WITH ALL THE SPORTS IF U CAN CLASSIFY THIS AS A SPORT THAT THERE IS 2 OFFER IN THIS WORLD AND OUR INCREASE IN FIRST HAND TORTURE.. U WOULD THINK EITHER INTELLIGANCE OR HUMAN COMPASSION WOULD KICK IN AND WE AS FEELING MORALLY CARING HUMAN BEINGS WOULD PUT A STOP 2 THIS HORRIBLE SLAUGHTER. ITS SICKINING 2 THINK ANIMALS WERE PUT HERE FOR OUR PLEASURE 2 TORTURE AND FEEL MORE SUPERIOR. ALTHOUGH GOD FORGIVES HE WILL BE WAITING 2 C JUSTICE IS SERVED...
Rev. Meg Schramm commented:

Jul 13, 2009 11:13 AM

As I said in a previous post any mentally deprived person in the city of Orange California who wants to run with a bull need not travel any further than the biker bar called Cooks Corner to do so. Just walk across the street duck under the barbed wire and go party with the bull that lives in the pasture there. The cheers you hear will be the bikers rooting for the bull...he is a mascot. He likes to come to the fence and watch the bikers sometimes. The real bikers do not bother him though. They are smarter than that. It's the tourists that give the bull trouble. Even the occaisional cyclist that shows up at Cooks knows not to trespass in the pasture but some of the tourists just can't resist especially after a couple of pitchers of beer!!
Mac commented:

Jul 13, 2009 11:05 AM

It's a shame when people celebrate the death of a person in this and even are adamant they would have a party for it. PETA surely you have enough class to not actually stand up for this behavior among your members? And when Fox showed the people pulling the tail of the bull and harassing it it showed MORE than any chat from a voice box could ever do. Photos speak louder if that weren't true you wouldn't be going around half nude or having Andy Dick dress up as an evil Ronald McDonald.
Jacob commented:

Jul 13, 2009 8:45 AM

Normally I visit here every now and then just to see what people are saying but a couple of you guys have just gone too far with these comments. Do these bulls meet cruel painful deaths? Of course they do but for someone to "shout for joy" and "almost throw a party" for the death of another human being? Are you so insensitive to your own kind that the death of a human becomes a celebratory matter? That to me is more sick than any cruelty to any animal.

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