How about being chased by bulls… down the slopes! Wouldn’t that be awesome?
Are the bulls riding motorcycles?
When someone gets hurt at the running of the bulls, I can’t help but be reminded of Norm MacDonald’s reaction to the death of the Crocodile Hunter, as expressed on The Daily Show– ‘You’ll never guess who died! The CROCODILE HUNTER!’
Snowmobiles. I mean, obviously.
I always wondered whether, should the bull win, he gets to keep the matador’s ears and tail.
Totally made up, not real, still funny.
How is this any more stupid than climbing Everest? 142 people have died doing that, and nobody nominates them for Darwin Awards.
Don’t say it unless you mean it.
Except for the animal cruelty part, maybe not much. Although I would argue that running with the bulls is a completely made up “adventure”, because in reality the streets of Pamplona are not filled with running bulls.
But mostly it is the animal cruelty part.
Climbing Everest is a completely made-up adventure, too. It’s not like you’re going up there to fetch something useful.
Ah, the great Gaelic-Italian tradition of Shirling.
Yes they do.
Yes, it’s only fair.
That the bulls occasionally get a kill.
I’m sure the bulls’ union was really adamant that that be included during the negotiations. Every once in a while, we get a kill. While we’re thundering confusedly down city streets and being provoked from all angles by a bewildering throng of tiny pink animals, if every once in a while, when one of them throws himself in front of us, that we get to crush him. It would be unfair otherwise. To us. If we didn’t. But we do.
Fairness is important.
That guy was an asshole. You’re not supposed to touch the bulls unless you want to die or are trying to get him off someone else.
Exactly. Just like I refrain from playing Russian Roulette because I’m coddled, overprotected, emasculated, adventure-phobic, and deathly frightened of taking the slightest risk—not because it’s a really fucking stupid thing to do.
It isn’t any more Russian Roulette than any other risky activity. And it’s not any more “fucking stupid” than jumping out of an airplane or strapping your feet to a giant rubber band and throwing yourself off a bridge.
In most risky activities the risks can be lessened by careful preparation and practice. How can one lessen the risk inherent in Russian Roulette?
Duck.
Meh, at least his dumbassery gets punished. Somehow the Karma of it all makes it alright for me.
I don’t accept the notion that running with the bulls is equivalent given the statistics of 15 deaths in 99 years of the event.