Six injured in this year's "running of the bulls"...

[ironglow]

  No was gored though, since it looks like they got hurt just getting out of the way...
     
    https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/six-injured-as-controversial-bull-run-returns-to-spains-pamplona/index.html#:~:text=None%20of%20the%20six%20was,injuries%2C%20the%

  If they would care to participate.. I am trying to arrange an "outrun the locomotive' event on a nearby , railroad trestle...

  Of course, they will have to sign wavers, just as those folks did, who went down to see that Titanic, from that "Tinker Toy" sub..

   Oops! does anybody remember Tinker Toys anymore?

[DDZ]

Somethin wrong with those people.

[GTS225]

TSK!  TSK!.....Adrenaline junkies.     (and no shaking head or facepalm emojis)

Roger

[Dee]

I've got new bull that would enjoy chasin'em. I don't get out of the truck around him unless I've got fresh batteries in my hotshot. He knows what a hotshot is.

[ironglow]

  They do learn quickly, what a hotshot is..

   ..An old but true saying..."It's almost always the "tame" bull that gets you!"

[Dee]

He ain't tame. He's ornery as hell.

[ironglow]

He ain't tame. He's ornery as hell.

   I don't doubt what you said for one moment.  However, that old saying comes from the numerous times in the past, when some farmer has a bull
  he may have raised from a calf, and was a "regular pet"...
 
    He always trusted that bull...until one day ..the bull realized he was bigger and stronger than the farmer....

    I knew a farmer named Norm, who trusted his bull, until one day...he ended up a parapalegic for the rest of his life..

   As a child, my wife lived nearby a farm, where their farmer kept a bull in the pasture.  One summer day, the farmer made his way back to his
  home, but left his intestines hanging on a barb wire fence.  He trusted hjs "tame' bull..

   I have personally seen a number of "close calls" with bulls, and must admit that in my younger..and foolish years, have tempted bulls, by imitating
    their pawing front feet, and relying up on my own feet to escape to nearby cover..

  I say foolishly, because it may have worked toward making a mean bull....and I never was any kind of a track star..   

     

[Ranger99]

A momma cow with a new calf
can morph into a grizzly bear
in a couple of seconds

[ironglow]

A momma cow with a new calf
can morph into a grizzly bear
in a couple of seconds

  Yep!  Our farm was a dairy farm, but when one of those dairy cows calves out in the pasture, it was my task to go bring them both in to the barn.

    In that situation, old ma cow can be nasty.

[nw_hunter]

Had a friend back in the 70's who raised a pet Holstein bull. We all tried to get Bob to cut the bull, but he didn't think it was necessary.The pet became a raging terror one day, that left Bob nearly dead. He recovered, but not fully. The bull became hamburger, and hopefully Bob, a little wiser.

Oh yea! The running of the Bulls and Fools........It's hard to have any sympathy for anyone stupid enough to do such a thing.

[DDZ]

Had a friend back in the 70's who raised a pet Holstein bull. We all tried to get Bob to cut the bull, but he didn't think it was necessary.The pet became a raging terror one day, that left Bob nearly dead. He recovered, but not fully. The bull became hamburger, and hopefully Bob, a little wiser.

Oh yea! The running of the Bulls and Fools........It's hard to have any sympathy for anyone stupid enough to do such a thing.

I was raised near my Uncle's dairy farms that had holsteins.  The heifers were generally docile, but the bulls were mostly mean and you didn't dare get near them.  All of them had to have their noses ringed, and some had to have a chain hung on them.

[ironglow]

  We had holsteins on our family farm, which are about 95% of what the dairies around here have.  I have heard some farmers who are experienced
  with various breeds claim that Jerseys are particularly mean..  Can't comment myself..

[Dee]

Branded cattle last Saturday. New bull lived up to his reputation. Hates horses and will go out of his way for a fight.

[ironglow]

Branded cattle last Saturday. New bull lived up to his reputation. Hates horses and will go out of his way for a fight.

   Did he try to pick a scrap with the horses?

[Dee]

He didn't just try. He got after a couple of horses, and almost wrecked the horses and riders, then got after a horse tied to the fence. He got his ass branded anyway, and turned back out to the pasture while we worked the rest of the cattle.

[ironglow]

He didn't just try. He got after a couple of horses, and almost wrecked the horses and riders, then got after a horse tied to the fence. He got his ass branded anyway, and turned back out to the pasture while we worked the rest of the cattle.

   That must have been an exciting, and entertaining interlude...

[Dee]

There wasn't much entertainment involved he was trying to kill the horses and cowboys. Its just part of it. You don't want a good horse hurt or crippled, or a good hand.

[nw_hunter]

All this Bull talk reminds me of a joke......A young Bull and an old Bull from the adjacent property were having a conversation across the fence. The old Bull say's.....How's things over there? Couldn't be better said the young one. I have 20 young heifers to keep me company, and the grass is belly deep. How's things with you?
Take a look said the old Bull. Just a few sprigs of grass and a lot of weeds. The only thing I have for company is one old steer, and all he wants to talk about is his operation. Sounds like you have a mean, but happy Bull! Dee

[Dee]

Oh he's dedicated to his cows, but he is fixing to go to the bull pasture for 9 months.