From the BBC News comes this story:

Bull charges bullfight spectators

At least two people are being treated in hospital in Mexico City after a bull leapt into a crowd during a bullfight.
The half-ton bull - named Pajarito or Little Bird - breached the safety barrier and landed on the fans.

The rampage ended when a fight participant entered the stand and killed the animal with his sword.

Mexico City’s bullring was built 60 years ago and is one of the biggest in the world, with a capacity of 48,000.

Television images of the bullfight showed the beast jump over the heads of journalists and into the most expensive seats at the capital’s vast ring.

One woman spectator received a six-inch (15-cm) gash in her chest.

The bullfight resumed 30 minutes after the incident. Little Bird is the first bull in the ring’s history to jump into the crowd.

As I watched the video of the rampage, I heard the narrator say “It is not known why the bull jumped into the stand…”

Here’s a clue: in 60 years, no bull that’s entered the Plaza de Toros bullring has ever walked out again. I couldn’t find the statistics for Mexico, but in Spain, 134,000 bulls have died in bullfights since 1960 (four matadors have died over the same period). Little Bird no doubt decided to go down swinging, taking the fight to its foes.

I wish mankind would give up on bull fights – yes the bull has horns, but he never really has a chance against the more heavily armed matador and his assistants. As a sport, the unfairness of bullfighting reminds me of deer hunting: every fall, hunters with their rifles sporting laser sights and camouflaged blinds, go out to kill unarmed grass eaters. They even use deer attractant scent ("Appeals to all of a buck’s basic instincts, working on five levels to draw them in. Unique mixture has doe-in-heat and rutting buck urines, plus a calming agent, curiosity link, and a powerful “enhancer.").

How unfair is that?!

After using all this technology to drop a dim-witted vegetarian, what do you, the successful hunter do next? Why hang the creature’s head on a wall! Sheesh, while you’re at it, why not also display the head of the cow that contributed to the Big Mac you’ll be having for lunch?

Homo sapiens have taken over this planet because we’re smarter than all the other predators. So much so that the other meat eaters on the food chain continue to exist only because we allow it. So where’s the challenge in killing plant eaters? A real test of skill should consist of tackling a tiger or bear with a Bowie knife - pitting a human armed with brains and a simple weapon against the instinct, claws, and teeth of predators who could easily have you for lunch if your neurons aren’t firing at peak efficiency. After you’ve survived a hunt like that, then you should hang a trophy, because by God you are a hunter.

But until such hunts become the norm, or until a buck can carry a rifle to shoot back at you, spare me the trophies.

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