# When cows fight back... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 24, 2010, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-cows-fight-back/540602 "2010-05-24T18:50:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-cows-fight-back/540602/1 "2010-05-24T18:50:36Z")
From mute cattle to mute \* torero’s \*- sometimes shoving sharp spikes in large animals doesn’t end well for the person on the other end of the spear. The pictures in [this (UK) article](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/7753416/Matador-in-hospital-after-horrific-goring.html)\* appeared in a number of Spanish newspapers over the weekend - dude’s alive but unlikely to make it as an opera singer. To be honest I say well done Mr Cow - if a chap in tight trousers was poking me with bit of metal I rather think I’d be inclined to react in the same way. \*_reasonably shocking image although no gore or blood._ ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-cows-fight-back/540602/2 "2010-05-24T19:02:36Z")
I view this type of thing as a sort of institutionalized Darwin Award. You mess with the bull, what do you get? ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-cows-fight-back/540602/3 "2010-05-24T19:07:31Z")
That’s gonna leave a mark. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-cows-fight-back/540602/4 "2010-05-24T19:30:24Z")
That’s a wound. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-cows-fight-back/540602/5 "2010-05-24T19:46:21Z")
What, no vid? Youtube [to the rescue!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWvutny7juk) Go bull! Matadors: 10,000,000 Bulls: 1 It’s a start! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-cows-fight-back/540602/6 "2010-05-24T19:53:54Z")
I thought the guy was being so casual he was smoking a cigar. ---
**Author:** ![sevenwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sevenwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sevenwood)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-cows-fight-back/540602/7 "2010-05-24T19:57:45Z")
Somebody’s gotta say it. [Cows with guns](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPhWfSeMYHA). ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-cows-fight-back/540602/8 "2010-05-24T22:26:11Z")
> [@Wallenstein](#): > > \*reasonably shocking image although no gore or blood. Are we looking at the same pic? It sure looked like a gore to me. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-cows-fight-back/540602/9 "2010-05-24T22:31:14Z")
Nice shot. That bull should have been given the ears. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-cows-fight-back/540602/10 "2010-05-24T22:34:46Z")
I’m pretty sure he got the tongue. ---
**Author:** ![Beerman1963](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/2acd7d/32.png) [@Beerman1963](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beerman1963)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-cows-fight-back/540602/11 "2010-05-25T00:50:51Z")
Well it will just make the Toreador? Matador? whoever look even more Macho after this. Dark eyed Senorita:where did you get that magnificent scar? Matador: Fighting the ferocious bull S: oooohhhh M: It is nothing I don’t get how this is a sport but, not gonna argue about it here ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-cows-fight-back/540602/12 "2010-05-25T04:22:21Z")
> [@Beerman1963](#): > > Well it will just make the Toreador? Matador? whoever look even more Macho after this. > Dark eyed Senorita:where did you get that magnificent scar? > Matador: Fighting the ferocious bull > S: oooohhhh > M: It is nothing > I don’t get how this is a sport but, not gonna argue about it here More like: Dark eyed Senorita: where did you get that magnificent scar? Matador: Mmmgmgglmph ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-cows-fight-back/540602/13 "2010-05-25T13:56:54Z")
> [@Beerman1963](#): > > I don’t get how this is a sport but, not gonna argue about it here Funny you should say that: [QUOTE=Ernest Hemingway] Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports. . . all others are games. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-cows-fight-back/540602/14 "2010-05-25T14:19:51Z")
That’s taking one on the chin! Maybe he’ll now be the strong, silent type. I imagine no more “keep your chin up!” advice from whoever coaches matadors. Ok, I’m done. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-cows-fight-back/540602/15 "2010-05-26T04:57:32Z")
> [@Beerman1963](#): > > I don’t get how this is a sport but, not gonna argue about it here Thanks for that. I was about to go nuclear, which wouldn’t have been appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![Snite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Snite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snite)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-cows-fight-back/540602/16 "2010-05-26T05:53:28Z")
It’s not a sport. In Spain, bullfights are reported in the Arts section of their newspapers. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-cows-fight-back/540602/17 "2010-05-26T17:59:49Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > What, no vid? Youtube [to the rescue!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWvutny7juk) > > Go bull! > > Matadors: 10,000,000 > Bulls: 1 > > It’s a start! [Bulls: 2, actually.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manolete) ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-cows-fight-back/540602/18 "2010-05-26T18:26:58Z")
Go Bulls! I also root for the bulls when they do that running thing. That bull ain’t bothering anybody, dude picks a fight with it, bull kicks his ass. I like it.