Posted by Tina
Are you kidding me? The running of the bulls, a la Pamploma, Spain, coming to a city near you? It’s absolutely true according to this AP story:
Organizers of a new event planned for several U.S. cities plan to unleash bulls to sprint through fenced-in courses as daredevils try to avoid being trampled.
The Great Bull Run is inspired by the annual running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain. It’s set to kick off Aug. 24 at a drag-racing strip south of Richmond, Va. A second event is planned for Oct. 19 at an Atlanta-area horse park that hosted events for the 1996 Olympics. More events are planned later for Texas, Florida, California, Minnesota, Illinois and Pennsylvania.
The US organizers are cheating a bit. The track has built in escape coves and won’t include running on cobblestone. 5000 people have signed up to participate in Virginia…are they crazy, adventurous…and are they ready for protests from PETA?
It doesn’t strike me as a fun way to spend an afternoon…anyone else up for this?
I say let them loose on the streets of SF, Chicago,Detroit for a trial run. Let the bulls thin out the ranks of the pro-death liberals. I bet they would have a change of heart when it is their life being aborted.
You folks are a caution, round these parts we been a say’n that bout DC and that bunch up yonder bout thar bull stuff their a runn’n past y’all pert near fer ever. Take that Obama feller’ n all his lip service, he gets his facts first, he gussied them up them as he druthers, then peddles em to y’all like oats that have passed thru the horse once
Encourage texting too.
No Toby, DC streets right after recess is called should be first. Then at every state capital across the country before SF and Detroit.