Eww...sounds awful. :yuk:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44826804/ns/world_news-europe/#.TpBMPnK8g-o
QuoteSpain: bullfighter survives terrifying face goring
By HAROLD HECKLE
updated 2 hours 0 minutes ago
MADRID — Spanish bullfighter Juan Jose Padilla is recovering from a five-hour operation to repair his face after a terrifying goring in the northeastern city of Zaragoza, the hospital that treated him said Saturday.
Television images showed the moment when the bull's left horn ripped into Padilla's lower jaw to emerge beside his protruding eyeball as spectators screamed in horror.
Padilla, 39, suffered eye, bone, muscle and skin damage when the bull pinned him to the ground and gored him, the statement said.
TV footage also showed Padilla getting up from the ring, his face gushing blood, as the bull was distracted by bullring assistants.
"I can't see, I can't see anything," the matador shouted as he was rushed to emergency facilities at Zaragoza's Misericordia bullring before being driven to the city's Miguel Servet Hospital for surgery.
The bull, named Marques, weighed 508 kilograms (1,120 pounds) and was the second fighting beast Padilla had faced during the second day of the annual Virgen del Pilar festivities in Zaragoza.
Surgeons used titanium plates and mesh to reconstruct parts of Padilla's facial bone structure and eye socket, doctors Simon Sanz and Nadal Cristobal said in a very detailed, signed statement.
A hospital spokesman told The Associated Press that surgeons had tried to reconstruct the bullfighter's left ocular nerve.
Padilla was lucky the horn did not penetrate his brain, said Vicente Yesteras, one of Padilla's retinue of bullring helpers.
Pity the bull failed.
Heh. It's weird to read news from my city on Languish.
This is why bullfighting is OK as a sport. Every once in a while, the bull wins.
I wish they won more often. Like 100% of the time.
Quote from: sbr on October 08, 2011, 04:22:04 PM
I wish they won more often. Like 100% of the time.
I wonder if Romans ever hoped that the human would win.
Quote from: sbr on October 08, 2011, 04:22:04 PM
I wish they won more often. Like 100% of the time.
They still lose. They get butchered afterwords. I wonder if they butcher and eat the matador if he loses. Btw, wasn't this the guy who was the "Dirty Bomb" guy back a few years ago? It's nice to see he has steady work now.
The bull is going to get slaughtered whether it goes into the ring or not. It would have to feel nice to take the guy in the brightly colored idiot suit out with you.
I think when the matador taps out they let the bull live.
Quote from: sbr on October 08, 2011, 05:41:22 PM
The bull is going to get slaughtered whether it goes into the ring or not. It would have to feel nice to take the guy in the brightly colored idiot suit out with you.
It is a goofy suit. I really don't care much what a cow thinks though.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 08, 2011, 05:43:31 PM
I think when the matador taps out they let the bull live.
Really? The Bull tends to get wounded a lot in the process. They jab it with a bunch of spears before the Matador goes in for the kill.
That is my understanding.
But my source is Hemmingway, who was writing about bullfighting in the 1930's.
He also claimed that if a bull puts up a particularly inspriing fight the crowd can lobby for him to be spared before he gets a sword in the heart.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 08, 2011, 08:59:57 PM
That is my understanding.
But my source is Hemmingway, who was writing about bullfighting in the 1930's.
He also claimed that if a bull puts up a particularly inspriing fight the crowd can lobby for him to be spared before he gets a sword in the heart.
Yeah, I seem to recall that as well. I read
Death in the Afternoon too. Still, before anti-biotics, a bunch of spears in the back was probably fatal. It is curious how he supported the Reds who were kind of luke warm on bull fighting over Franco who heavily promoted it. Incidentally, I remember reading that
For whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway's other bull fighting themed book, was a favorite novel of both John McCain and Barak Obama.
You're thinking of The Sun Also Rises.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 08, 2011, 09:15:03 PM
You're thinking of The Sun Also Rises.
Really? Which part?
Quote from: Razgovory on October 08, 2011, 09:34:20 PM
Really? Which part?
The whole thing. They go to Pamplona and get blootered, the hero's ex-squeeze runs off with the bullfighter.
OK, I remember now the part in For Whom The Bell Tolls that talked about bullfighting. Takes backs.
Hemingway had a pathological hatred for cows. He glorified their killing in many books.
Incidentally, if I ever visited Spain, I would go to a Bull Fight.
Quote from: Razgovory on October 08, 2011, 09:12:19 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 08, 2011, 08:59:57 PM
That is my understanding.
But my source is Hemmingway, who was writing about bullfighting in the 1930's.
He also claimed that if a bull puts up a particularly inspriing fight the crowd can lobby for him to be spared before he gets a sword in the heart.
Yeah, I seem to recall that as well. I read Death in the Afternoon too. Still, before anti-biotics, a bunch of spears in the back was probably fatal. It is curious how he supported the Reds who were kind of luke warm on bull fighting over Franco who heavily promoted it. Incidentally, I remember reading that For whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway's other bull fighting themed book, was a favorite novel of both John McCain and Barak Obama.
In that case, "being spared" probably means being walked off the field before going to the butcher, as opposed to going on a cart.
I dunno. Yi and I are basing this on books we read written in the 20's and 30's by a guy who eventually blew his own brains out.
Quote from: Razgovory on October 08, 2011, 09:12:19 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 08, 2011, 08:59:57 PM
That is my understanding.
But my source is Hemmingway, who was writing about bullfighting in the 1930's.
He also claimed that if a bull puts up a particularly inspriing fight the crowd can lobby for him to be spared before he gets a sword in the heart.
Yeah, I seem to recall that as well. I read Death in the Afternoon too. Still, before anti-biotics, a bunch of spears in the back was probably fatal. It is curious how he supported the Reds who were kind of luke warm on bull fighting over Franco who heavily promoted it. Incidentally, I remember reading that For whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway's other bull fighting themed book, was a favorite novel of both John McCain and Barak Obama.
Insane alcoholic closeted homosexuals are rarely consistent in their views. Just look at Languish.
I never understood why people play with food.
I thought the scene in Close Encounters of the Third Kind where the guy builds the mountain with his mashed potatoes was cool.
Lets conquer space.
Quote from: Martinus on October 09, 2011, 02:28:08 AM
Insane alcoholic closeted homosexuals are rarely consistent in their views. Just look at Languish.
Hemingway wasn't gay, you twit.