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| True Machismo! | |
SMH-2002-07-08 Reports that a 20 year old Australian has been gored by a bull
in the world famous Running of the Bulls in Pamplona. This is nothing to do with a rising stock exchange.
The running of the bulls is a a bizarre occurrence in which bulls are
released (at a scheduled time) into the streets of Pamplona, and thousands of
people voluntarily stand in the streets, and then run away trying not to get
gored. Apparently these people are too stupid to understand that the best way to
avoid being gored is simply to not be in the streets when the bulls are
being released. In fact people travel from all over the world just to be there
when the bulls are released so they can avoid getting gored. They don't seem to
understand that the best way to avoid being gored is to stay at home! Unfortunately the miracle of modern medical technology manages to repair
these people's bodies (though it can't do anything about their minds), and they
go on to lead (what appear to be) quite normal lives. What would once be an
almost automatic removal from the gene-pool now merely costs the tax payer a
small fortune as they pay for these people to be cared for. Many people struggle to get adequate care, and wait for hours in hospital
waiting rooms after serious injuries because of the limited budgets of
hospitals. Yet the resources that do exist get squandered on morons with
self-inflicted injuries. This has got to be one of the best arguments for private health cover that
has been presented since the fall of the Berlin Wall. A private health fund can
ask questions like 'do you intend to run with the bulls in Pamplona?' and have
a Pamploma exclusion clause: 'you get gored, you bleed to death'. Let's face it, these people want to demonstrate machismo. What could be
more machismo than bleeding to death in the street with no pain killers and
a crowd of people cheering you on? Now that's a story the independent media could cover!
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