07-09-2007, 07:41 PM
It was started because they had a weeklong festival for some saint Fermin dude.
During those festivals, they have bullfights every night.
In order to get the bulls to the bullfights, they had to move them from their pens a half mile out of the city centre.
People started to run with the bulls. San Fermin is more like Mardi Gras than Times square. Only it's got way more people, orders of magnitude more filth, public urination, crime, and homelessness.
Had I known what I know now, I definitely wouldn't have gone. But the bull run was a rush, but it was a controlled rush. I wasn't running in front of them, I was mostly do the sides, and near a fence if any of the bad shit ahppened. Though I was about 10 feet away from that kid in the green shirt and red bandana when the bull rushed our entire crowd.
During those festivals, they have bullfights every night.
In order to get the bulls to the bullfights, they had to move them from their pens a half mile out of the city centre.
People started to run with the bulls. San Fermin is more like Mardi Gras than Times square. Only it's got way more people, orders of magnitude more filth, public urination, crime, and homelessness.
Had I known what I know now, I definitely wouldn't have gone. But the bull run was a rush, but it was a controlled rush. I wasn't running in front of them, I was mostly do the sides, and near a fence if any of the bad shit ahppened. Though I was about 10 feet away from that kid in the green shirt and red bandana when the bull rushed our entire crowd.