BLOODY PAMPLONA
I have always loved the gay look of matadors ... and that's pretty much it!
Every year in Pamplona Spain on July 6 and for 7 days there is this thing call the San Fermin fiestas. The week long 'celebration' is nothing else than a gigantic open air orgy gathering over 1,000,000 people. Where I lived in the south of France I think I was one of the few who never made it ...
The most popular event is the the encierro aka the running of the bulls. Translation they release bulls in the streets and if you are stupid enough you can run with them knowing you may end up injured or dead!
Even tho a lot of people are against the corridas, the event become more and more popular and I am not even sure that the death of a 27 year old man this year (the 15th since record keeping began in 1924) will change anything! Anyone can participate in the bull run, which means most of them are wasted from the night before probably not realizing what they get into ...
The main reason for those festivities and believe me coming from this part of the world I know what I am talking about is to drink and get wasted. That's all they want, that's all they do.
I am not a vegetarian and I don't think the life of a bull is more valuable than a chicken for example, but cruelty and killing animals for entertainment purposes is something I have a difficult time with.
Below a couple of wardrobe malfunctions (hope they lost their balls in the process !!!) Full images AFTER THE JUMP.
