Olé!!

[ABM]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100206/ap_on_re_eu/eu_spain_teenage_matador

CACERES, Spain – A 16-year-old Spanish matador killed six bulls in one afternoon Saturday, pulling off a feat normally attempted only by seasoned veterans and winning trophies for his skill — ears from animals he had just slain.

Jairo Miguel Sanchez Alonso, who nearly died from a horrific goring in Mexico in 2007, smiled broadly and waved to a friendly hometown crowd after a pageant that took about two and a half hours.

A tall and slender boy who is also amazingly articulate for his age, he showed off his stuff in an arena called Plaza Era de los Martires, or Time of the Martyrs.

The bullfighter, who goes by the stage name of Jairo Miguel, turned in his best performance with bull No. 5, a hulking black specimen that weighed 435 kilograms (959 pounds).

After skillful cape-work, he finished off the bull with a single deathblow from his sword, sliding it into a spot where it severed the beast's spinal chord. With the rest of the bulls he needed around three stabs.

This is considered too many, and Jairo Miguel acknowledged frustration with that part of his work, although he felt his effort was a success overall and said he was never scared.
"I brought out the best in myself that I could," he told The Associated Press. "It was a good afternoon of bullfighting, and people were not bored."

For the fifth bull, he was awarded the animal's severed ears, one of the bullfighting world's prizes for a job well done. He took a slow victory lap around the ring, showing the organs to the crowd.

Minutes before he stepped into the ring, Jairo Miguel hugged his father Antonio, a former bullfighter, and in a powerfully emotional scene they both cried............

 

[Colonel Ronan]

Crazy.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

I thought they stopped doing those things.

Can you imagine in this country what would happen if we tried to have bull fights?

First, after PETA would sue the crap out of them and drain all their money.

Then, Obama would offer $16,000,000,000 in bailout money if they had a union. Most of the money going, of course, to the union for retirement and graft.

Then the feds would buy and own the bill fighting corp before giving 60% of it to the union.

Lastly, we'd get news briefs from the White House that this bailout will save the country $16 trillion and add 300,000 jobs.

Ole', indeed.

 

[Blazer_Hippie]

I thought they stopped doing those things.

Can you imagine in this country what would happen if we tried to have bull fights?

First, after PETA would sue the crap out of them and drain all their money.

Then, Obama would offer $16,000,000,000 in bailout money if they had a union. Most of the money going, of course, to the union for retirement and graft.

Then the feds would buy and own the bill fighting corp before giving 60% of it to the union.

Lastly, we'd get news briefs from the White House that this bailout will save the country $16 trillion and add 300,000 jobs.

Ole', indeed.

Then we'd claim Spain and Mexico still had hidden bullfighting operations that were a threat to national security and bomb the crap out of them only to find out we were wrong... oh...wait...Bush isn't in office anymore...nvm.

 

[DaRizzle]

i always root for the bull

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Then we'd claim Spain and Mexico still had hidden bullfighting operations that were a threat to national security and bomb the crap out of them only to find out we were wrong... oh...wait...Bush isn't in office anymore...nvm.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

i always root for the bull

I remember Manolete' getting gored in the nuts and died from it. Ouch!

 

[dpc]

i always root for the bull

ditto