The Family That’s Gored Together……
Goes to the hospital for emergency surgery together. (Darned if we can think of a good rhyme.) Two American brothers were gored by the same bull at the same time in the annual running of the bulls (aka the goring of the tourists) in Pamplona, Spain. The picture says it all, with both of the brothers hanging like bad Christmas ornaments from the horns of an enraged bull.
Lawrence and Michael Lenahan were gored simultaneously by the bull, which also injured 11 other people Thursday. It was the worst day for injuries in the nine-day festival.
"I started yelling at my brother to show him I was bleeding everywhere but he showed me he was bleeding everywhere," said Lawrence Lenahan, a 26-year-old Air Force captain from Hermosa Beach, Calif., in a telephone interview from his hospital bed.
He was gored in the buttocks, while Michael Lenahan, 23, of Philadelphia, was injured in his leg and was recovering well from surgery at the same hospital.
The brothers had watched one bull run before taking part. Thursday's run — the sixth day of the festival — was their first.
The pack of six 1,300-pound bulls and six steers — intended to keep the bulls running in a single pack — disintegrated shortly after the animals set off on the course through the narrow, cobblestoned streets of Pamplona.
The run lasted 6 minutes, 9 seconds, compared with the usual length of 2 minutes because one bull separated — the most dangerous thing that can happen.
"I remember looking back and thinking I was in trouble," Lawrence Lenahan said.
Gee, ya think?
By Quilly Mammoth, Saturday, 14 July , 2007 @ 1:16 am
Looking at the picture _where_ they were gored brings tears to my eyes. San Francisco readers of BCB might feel otherwise.
Grin, duck & Runnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
By old_dawg, Saturday, 14 July , 2007 @ 6:46 am
Draining the shallow end of the Gene Pool, one dimwit at a time.
By feeblemind, Saturday, 14 July , 2007 @ 9:21 am
One of the gored was an Air Force Captain? Hope he is an anomaly and not a typical representation of the officer corps.
By rlpete2, Saturday, 14 July , 2007 @ 1:28 pm
Making things much to easy for the Animal Uprising.