WATCH: Colombian Bullfighting Bleachers Collapse

From the AP:

Dozens of people were injured on Monday after an improvised bullfighting ring collapsed in the town of Planadas, in Colombia's Tolima province, authorities said. (July 22)

Watch below:

Comments

[rroy]

One of the last remaining examples of legal sadism and barbarism is the,so called "Bull Fight".
Why it is even called a" fight "is a gross misnomer!It strikes me as nothing more than a manifestation of Gladiators and other forms of legal murder like public hangings and beheadings,and burnings of the distant and not too distant past.
There are even those that call this ghastly tormenting and torturing to death of an animal Art,or Sport.
As far as I'm concerned,the day when Bull Fighting becomes ilegal throuhout the world will be one more step up the long and winding stairway to human decency and good sense!

[NoSillyName]

Bravo!

[watcher269]

Wasn't McCain just down there last month helping to build this arena? Heehee

[CFAmick]

You want to make an omelette (ie, murder an animal for sport), you got to break some eggs.

[quoveritas]

That's right! Chicken placentas for everyone! Including the Vegans.....

[RaraAvis17]

Anytime I see a human and animal involved I always want to know if the animal is ok first, unless it is someone attacked by a vicious dog or bear etc. But if you are messing with an animal and you lose then so be it.

[Monrocsol]

HUMANS..... ANIMALS ARE MORE HUMAN THAN HUMANS.

TO TORMENT AN ANIMAL FOR A SPORT, THAT'S INHUMAN.

[sedum]

I'm sure your "sparring" includes a neat little firearm from a safe distance. Idiot!

[quoveritas]

Actually, I favor the tools of my ancestors - the bow and arrow. When you kill an animal you're killing it as a ritual, a means, mind you, of death to beget more life - the meat you see - the protein. But this does not go on as mass slaughter, it's as I mentioned a holy ritual: you take the creature's life and it prolongs yours or your family. In terms of bullfighting - it is a ritual as well.

I hope your vegetables and fruits don't scream when you pick and eat them.....

[Waitaminute]

Go to the store. That's also a ritual.

[NoSillyName]

Your ancestors had no choice. You do.

I don't like rituals, so that doesn't mean anything to me.

[quoveritas]

I'm disgusted by everyone of you idiot's who equate animal rights to the detriment of innocent people. Why don't you stay in your lilly white patch of organic fruits and vegetables, take a dump on your own food and eat it. At least those of us who spar with animals do them the honor of eating them after.

[SeriousBlack]

Such an ignorant, uncaring attitude of yours almost wasn't even worth a response.

Almost.

Any time humans CHOOSE to make it an entertainment event out of torturing animals to death (such as bullfighting or cockfighting or dogfighting, etc.) it is an indisputably cruel abomination of human nature. That is different from hunting for food for survival.

If you can't see the difference between the two situations you are seriously mentally and emotionally challenged. You can try to make all the stupid analogies you want - all you're doing is making a fool out of yourself.

[greencowgirl]

Innocent people??? Does anyone out there besides quo lumpen veritas know any innocent human over the age of 3 who is not governed by greed, jealousy, macho insecurity, self-made stupidity, cruelty, envy, gluttony, lust, sloth, wrath, or pride?

You see any animals putting humans in a ring simply so they can be entertained by watching and cheering the suffering of an animal's deliberate, slow and painful death?

I'm disgusted by idiots like you who think the very flawed human animal is so superior to other living things - that everything, including other humans, is put on this earth for our amusement or consumption by whatever means.

I suppose eating animals raised in their own filth on a factory farm and slaughtered while still alive is doing them an honor, like Jeffery Dahmer doing anyone an honor when he ate them. get real.

[mathme]

"Does anyone out there besides quo lumpen veritas know any innocent human over the age of 3 who is not governed by greed, jealousy, macho insecurity, self-made stupidity, cruelty, envy, gluttony, lust, sloth, wrath, or pride?"

Wow... project much?

[quoveritas]

First of all, you must keep some very poor company if you think everyone older than 3 is "governed" by these attributes. Which says more about you and your lack of people skills than it does about your so-called LOVE for the animal kingdom. I find most people who are obsessed with pets and animal rights use them as substitutes for a horrible family upbringing. I am sorry for you, but my point is not to anger you or your ilk.
I merely object to people who would rather save an animal, yet have an abortion. You see to wish other people harm - innocent or otherwise - is in itself 'animal' and primitive.

Your Dahmer analogy isn't worth a response.

[NoSillyName]

You "spar" with animals? Then eat them. Bull-y for you.

[quoveritas]

I got your bull-y you silly no name....lol

[FromWayDowntown]

Cool human domino effect. Shame the bulls were too busy to enjoy it.

[misohai]

I must be out of my mind, but I too feel nothing for these people. Bullfighting, like chicken fighting and worst of all, dog fighting, is a sign that the world is not quite ready to evolve to the next level, whatever that might be. At this rate, we'll most likely never know....

[quoveritas]

Yes, you are out of your mind. Ask your therapist to look up - lack of compassion for human life - as a family value.

[angryliberal]

Oh, that's what happened. I thought they were just doing the wave.

[bobbyperu]

Viva Toro!!!!!!!!

[Verified]

I cannot understand why the people in the other non-collapsed bleachers didn't run out of their sections, as well. I'd have been off of those risers in a heartbeat.

[NoSillyName]

Guess they were too enthralled more by the spectacle of bull vs man than that of their fellow humans possibly being hurt or dying. So much for the lecture some comments have given us who are pro-bull.

[Forester]

IMO, a society's level of evolution is measured by how people treat their women, minorities, environment and animals. On this scale, we get a C+, Saudi Arabia a D-, and Sweden an B+. I would have to guess that Colombia gets a passing grade.

That being said, it seems many societal behaviors that seem heinous to outsiders are tightly linked to ethnic identity, and that identity is so valuable that outside repudiations have little meaning. Examples include Inuit whale hunting, American rodeos, Spanish bullfighting, French songbird feasting, basic hunting, etc.

At what point do we want to homogenize humans into political correctness and lose our ethnic identities? Do we all really want to evolve into bland/blond Swedes?(sorry Stephanie)

[SeriousBlack]

You can't equate any type of hunting to bullfighting. Even though I personally detest hunting as well, I am discerning enough intellectually to tell the difference between the two rather than being so simple-minded to lump the two together as equivalent.

Sorry, just sayin' it like it is.

[NABNYC]

Well from where I sit, people who enjoy torturing and murdering others -- people as well as animals, are not people with whom I want to associate. Don't want them as neighbors or co-workers.

There is a deeply sadistic center to bull-fighting in which human beings armed with deadly weapons "pretend" they are playing with an animal, taunt it, terrorize it, confuse it, run it ragged, then murder it, all to the cheering shouts of a group of drunken brutal often brain-damaged idiots who undoubtedly then go home and beat their wives and children shouting "Ole" the whole time and having dreams of themselves as great heroes and warriors. The same idiots are the ones who become Marines, join murder squads and Blackwater, and only feel good when they have brought about the pain and suffering and murder of others.

But that's just my view.

[SeriousBlack]

If you're going to torture animals to death you deserve whatever happens to you, in my estimation.

[gander]

Let me get this straight. Every one of those people in attendance deserves to suffer injury and perhaps death for the sin of attending a bull fight...even the children.

[SeriousBlack]

So it was a bull.

What if it was a little golden retriever puppy being tortured to death while a circle of people watched?

Hmmm, all you "what the heck are you stupid people talking about" guys like "quoveritas"?

An animal is an animal. Right? Go ahead, tell me what the difference would be between it being a bull (oooooooohhhh, such a big and powerful and supposedly mean animal, oooooooohhhh) and being ANY. OTHER. TYPE. OF. ANIMAL.

Well, I'll tell you what the difference is with bullfighting. It grew out of the desire of Latino societies for their "men" to prove how MACHO they are.

Wow, you're SUCH a man because you can torture an animal to death without letting it hurt YOU. (Sound of me throwing up.)

But my original question still applies. As far as how acceptable the part is in which an animal is being tortured to death for the ENTERTAINMENT of a bunch of people.

What if it was a puppy being tortured to death?

No difference, "quoveritas" or anybody else?

REALLY?

[maryhaze]

yep!

[EndTheHumanWar]

Riiiiiiiiight.
And, Mickey Mouse was a great actor.
And Ronald Reagan was a great president.

[SweetJudith]

Poetic Justice!
Animal Liberation!

[Amishguy]

I didn't see any liberated animal. The bullfighters never seemed to loose his attention.