[DeTomaso] NPC - the REAL running of the Bulls

[Bill Lewis]

There is a little town down her - used to be a pretty good drive from Houston, but now is almost a suburb - named Simonton.  Simonton had an indoor rodeo that folks would take out-of-town visitors, etc., to; and one of the events toward the end of the evening was to tie a 100 dollar bill between the horns of a bull, turn him loose inside the arena and let the crowd of fools who chose to participate, try to get the money.  You get it, it's yours.  Well, one night, apparently one of your boracho dudes was there, and he got body-slammed by the bull.  He was not gored - which turned out to be a minor detail in life's story.  He lay on the dirt, as the rest of the crowd did their thing, and his whole body shook violently, then stopped.  End of story. Finis.  Credits roll for his life.   -----Bill Lewis



> From: knottsj at galstar.com
> To: charlesmccall at gmail.com; detomaso at realbig.com
> Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 15:59:41 -0500
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPC - the REAL running of the Bulls
> 
> Charles,
> 
> I guess as you get older your priorities change.  I ran in 1967 and 1968. 
> It was only for one day each and the first year I learned that the 1 1/2 
> lane street and sidewalk narrow abruptly at the entrance to the bull ring. 
> I found it best to move as far to the fence as possible and allow expendable 
> people to box me in.  The second year was better and went without incident. 
> The most dangerous part as far as I was concerned were the thousands of 
> skyrockets on wooden stands in the plaza.  The night before when they set 
> them off a few of the rockets went up instead of taking detours into the 
> crowd.  Most of the crowd members were wearing white and read and were 
> baracho so it didn't seem to matter until they started trying to remove 
> their burning clothing.  Once again I was lucky by being out of the way in 
> the rear of large bodega.  In hind sight it is certainly more exciting than 
> a tienta but less so that a trip to Siagon in 1966.  At this point in my 
> life I think I would not do it again.  Our wedding anniversary is 7-7 so I 
> find it easy to remember both.
> 
> I would rather be 22 again and have fewer memories.
> jerry knotts
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Charles McCall" <charlesmccall at gmail.com>
> To: "DetomasoList" <detomaso at realbig.com>
> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 2:37 PM
> Subject: [DeTomaso] NPC - the REAL running of the Bulls
> 
> 
> > For those keeping track, the running of the bulls in Pamplona began
> > yesterday.
> >
> > It's a 6-day long festival, with the traditional running with the bulls at
> > 8am each morning. Yesterday's run was "clean", with only minor injuries.
> > Today two people were gored, an Australian and an American. The Australian
> > is in serious condition, but should live.
> >
> > It's not surprising that 90% of those injured are foreigners, and the
> > majority of them were feeling so little pain that they weren't even sure
> > they were gored until several hours later... Having participated in the
> > past, bulls are a lot bigger in person than they look on tv, and it really
> > is a serious thing.
> >
> > as a side comment, I find it interesting that the government requires 
> > people
> > to wear seatbelts so they don't get hurt in accidents, wear helmets on
> > motorcycles to protect the citizens, but then has no problem releasing 
> > wild
> > bulls in the streets of a town and letting people go chase them, and
> > vice-versa. I don't think any of those things are bad, but I do find it
> > curious!
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