Madrid – A 20-year-old American man who was badly gored during a bull-running festival is out of intensive care and improving, a spokesman for the Clinic Hospital in western Salamanca said Monday.
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Benjamin Miller, from Georgia, was out of danger and not likely to have to undergo any further operations, the spokesman said. He spoke on condition of anonymity in keeping with hospital rules.
Miller suffered several wounds, including a 40-cm (16-inch) goring in the thigh, when he was caught by a fighting bull during a festival in the nearby town of Ciudad Rodrigo on Saturday.
Images showed Miller being repeatedly tossed by the bull and in obvious pain at being gored and pushed along the ground. Helpers eventually managed to pull him up from the street to safety.
Fiestas featuring bulls are common in Spain and many people are injured each year. Spain’s most famous bull-running event is in the San Fermin festival in Pamplona.
In the runs, hundreds of people test their bravery and speed by dashing ahead of bulls through the streets to a town’s bull ring.
Towns normally have special medical units ready to attend those injured in the festivals.
Ciudad Rodrigo town councilor Pedro Munoz said two other unidentified men — a man from Scotland and a Spaniard — had sustained less serious goring injuries during Saturday’s events.
it don’t take much to be stupid, go fight a bull to prove you’re a macho?
Crazy people. They deserve no sympathy when they get hurt. It’s just another flavor of Russian Roulette
I hope you have Obamacare
Is the bull a tam or a muad?
Shor shenogach es hashotah.
וְכִי-יִגַּח שׁוֹר אֶת-אִישׁ אוֹ אֶת-אִשָּׁה, וָמֵת–סָקוֹל יִסָּקֵל הַשּׁוֹר, וְלֹא יֵאָכֵל אֶת-בְּשָׂרוֹ, וּבַעַל הַשּׁוֹר, נָקִי
וְאִם שׁוֹר נַגָּח הוּא מִתְּמֹל שִׁלְשֹׁם, וְהוּעַד בִּבְעָלָיו וְלֹא יִשְׁמְרֶנּוּ, וְהֵמִית אִישׁ, אוֹ אִשָּׁה–הַשּׁוֹר, יִסָּקֵל, וְגַם-בְּעָלָיו, יוּמָת
אוֹ-בֵן יִגָּח, אוֹ-בַת יִגָּח–כַּמִּשְׁפָּט הַזֶּה, יֵעָשֶׂה לּוֹ
Terrible injury.Refuah shelimah. Meshugah to put oneself in harms way.
You can make fun of this sport all you want. I’ve participated in it twice, the adrenaline rush it’s absolutely fabulous I highly recommend it.
Deserves is. The Spain bull run is madness and cruel to the animals. And I hate PETA more than anyone! This has nothing to do with PETA, by the way, where are they??? Why aren’t they screaming? Only when a polar bear will be inconvenienced by an oil pipeline do they pipe up?
To #8 - You are as much as a fool, as those participating in this  220;sport 221;. In addition, it is against Halacha to be cruel to animals. Therefore, not only the running with the bulls, but also the bullfights, where an animal is harassed by bullfighters, and eventually slain, to the cheers of thousands, should be banned.
To be clear, there is no cruelty to the bull at any time, don’t believe what people tell you. And to #12 people do jump from planes (with parachutes) for thrills.
“You never feel more alive then when you risk it” 🙂