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2019-07-09 Europe

Selfie craze leads to San Francisco attorney's Pamplona bull goring

PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) ‐ The desire to have a selfie as a souvenir from running with the bulls in Spain turned into a near-death experience an American lawyer says he’ll never forget.

A charging bull ran over and gored San Francisco resident Jaime Alvarez in the neck during the first run of this year’s San Fermin festival in Pamplona, an event immortalized by writer Ernest Hemingway nearly a century ago.

"The joy and the excitement of being in the bullring quickly turned into a scare, into real fear for my life," Alvarez, 46, said Monday at a regional hospital where he was recovering from surgery.

Doctors told Alvarez the bull’s horn went deep into his neck and fractured part of a cheekbone. That it didn’t hit the jugular vein or major arteries was described to the injured patient as "beyond miraculous."

Alvarez, who works as a public defender in Santa Clara County, California, said he realized how severely he’d been hurt during his encounter with the bull Sunday morning when he touched his neck and his hand came away covered with blood.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-07-09 02:02|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 Hopefully he'll be well enough to return next year.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-07-09 02:09|| 2019-07-09 02:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Doctors told Alvarez the bull’s horn went deep into his neck and fractured part of a cheekbone.

He won't be litigating for some while, and if he does it'll be like Arnold Vosloo in the Mummy.

And gorb wanted tennis balls. ☺

Posted by Dron66046 2019-07-09 02:18|| 2019-07-09 02:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Depends on the target.

Posted by gorb 2019-07-09 07:32|| 2019-07-09 07:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Tennis balls don't do much to blunt a pointy object, with a pretty sizable kinetic energy, travelling at 30-mph.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2019-07-09 10:05|| 2019-07-09 10:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Pessimist.

Posted by gorb 2019-07-09 10:42|| 2019-07-09 10:42|| Front Page Top

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