My brother-in-law actually ran with the bulls during San Fermines one year. He’s got a video somewhere, from a Spanish newscast, that shows him running with the crowd ahead of the bulls.
This was before he met and married my sister. She would never have allowed him to do such a thing.
Um, “he died doing what he loved”?
Mess with nature, die by nature.
I have quite often seen a bull trying to mate with another bull. Keeping a bunch of horny young boys in a field away from the ladies is bound to have that effect. See also: Single sex boarding schools in the UK.
If only he’d read the sign:
I know that they do this, but have never seen it IRL. What i did see was a foal trying to mate with his mother. 
It’s been a bad week for Spanish bullfighters. Two serious gorings days apart. Much online Schadenfreude.
Out came the matador
Who must have been potted or
Slightly insane, but who looked rather bored
Then the picadors of course
Each one on his horse
I shouted “Ole” every time one was gored
- Tom Lehrer
To be fair, the article does identify this last dude as Peruvian. ( AND as world’s worst matador on account of repeated gorings. )
Observe the quote, Class, and tell me if you notice something in the choice of words.
Thirty year old memory of 2nd hand reporting: quite a few bullfighting fans agree that the bull should win every now and then, resulting in the death of the bull fighter.
Makes them not one bit less disgustable.
I’m not sure what you’re getting at, unless it’s the accidental pun on horny?
Otherwise it’s like the Globetrotters, entertaining but too predictable.
Showboating guy discovers that he’s not a cobra commander:
It just goes to show what I always keep saying: Do NOT fuck with the animal kingdom.
Those snakes are getting out of hand:
From the article:
A German tourist has died after attending a snake show at an Egyptian hotel. According to investigators’ findings so far, the 57-year-old had already attended a performance with his family at the hotel in the Hurghada resort area in early April, during which a so-called snake charmer performed for entertainment. According to reports, the performer placed two snakes—presumably cobras—around the guests’ necks. He reportedly allowed one of the snakes to crawl into the Bavarian tourist’s pants, at which point the animal allegedly bit him in the leg.
The man from Unterallgäu showed clear symptoms of poisoning and was resuscitated, said a spokesperson for the Memmingen Criminal Investigation Department. He died shortly thereafter in the hospital.
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At least your idiot died within minutes, the German tourist agonized* longer.
* Beware of false friend! And cobras.
He should have worn his Krachlederne, that would have repelled the snakes.
I’ve noted a surge in venomous snake handler content on YouTube lately. It just truly annoys me. There are legitimate reasons for keeping “hot” snakes in captivity - i.e. farming for antivenin. Arguably very cautious public education and demystification by very careful professionals might be another. They’re often beautiful and very interesting animals. But as cool pets and to make a buck by showing off your handling skills are not among them.
There have just been too many bad bites by people getting careless or unlucky. I’ve mentioned the folks I’ve personally known who have died or been hospitalized by being careless before. Very experienced, expert people! It’s an old story - get complacent, become careless, boom. I’ve been bitten dozens if not hundreds of times handling snakes. It meant nothing because it was overwhelmingly just pin-pricks. But even though I technically know how to do it, I will not blithely handle venomous reptiles anymore than I will blithely play in traffic.
I hike a fair amount, we are lucky to have a large mountain smack-bang in the middle of Cape Town.
I rarely see snakes, although they are there, apparently a fairly dense number - cant recall it offhand.
I once exhibited my ballet skills with a full leap and half twist, while issuing an operatic soprano scream after I almost stood on a rinkhals cobra quitely chilling on a path. My hiking friends still make fun of me. The snake didn’t even point and laugh.
I saw a “snake charmer” with a cobra in a castle in Rajasthan, India. I quickly pushed through the crowd of tourists and moved on. I’m not into cruelty to animals.