Monday, October 10, 2011

Juan Jose Padilla My Heart Bleeds For You Not: Re-Up

Update: Re-upped to include video in living gory colour. I normally have a severe aversion to gore, but on this occasion I'm quite delighted to make an exception.

Big tip of the hat to video compiler and uploader, meanstreak1977

As you might well imagine, the comments section is dripping with sympathy.

That must have hurt, all those barbs in the back. Poor bull, at least he took half the matadors face with him.
face off!
Nice shoes
haha...awesome. take that you wanker
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I normally reserve my little saying: Isn't it nice, when the twats of this world get theirs? for fallen public figures. But I shall allow myself a little divergence today and say, in the case of Juan Jose Padilla, bullfighter, isn't it nice, when the twats of this world get theirs?

Shame the bull didn't poke your other eye out, you twat.






Juan Jose Padilla, Spain Bullfighter, Suffers Terrifying Face Goring
by Harold Heckle
Oct 8, 2011

MADRID -- A Spanish bullfighter is likely to suffer facial paralysis and lose the sight in one eye after a terrifying goring, the hospital treating him said Saturday.

Television images showed the moment when the bull's left horn ripped into Juan Jose Padilla's lower jaw to emerge beside his protruding eyeball as spectators in the northeastern city of Zaragoza screamed in horror.

Padilla is in a stable condition and recovering from a five-hour operation to repair his face, the statement from the Miguel Servet Hospital said.

It said Padilla, 39, suffered eye, bone, muscle and skin damage when the bull pinned him to the ground and gored him. Surgeons had not been able to repair a severed facial nerve.




TV footage also showed Padilla getting up from the ring, his face gushing blood, as the bull was distracted by bullring assistants.

"I can't see, I can't see anything," the matador shouted as he was rushed to emergency facilities at Zaragoza's Misericordia bullring before being driven to the hospital.

The bull, named Marques, weighed 508 kilograms (1,120 pounds) and was the second fighting beast Padilla had faced late Friday, during the second day of the annual Virgen del Pilar festivities in Zaragoza.

Surgeons used titanium plates and mesh to reconstruct parts of Padilla's facial bone structure and eye socket, doctors Simon Sanz and Nadal Cristobal said in a very detailed, signed statement.

Padilla was lucky the horn did not penetrate his brain, said Vicente Yesteras, one of Padilla's retinue of bullring helpers. huffpo

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12 comments:

Ana M. Brochett said...

Whomever wrote the last post... Shame on you!

Bottom line is, that, due to your primitive culture ( no Spanish influence whatsoever, evidently) you'll never understand the essence of CORRIDAS DE TOROS ( in your boring and limited language: bull fightings?) Anyhow, I disguise your comment.... Never, in a million years, we shall rejoyce on someone's tragedy.... I'm not even sure if you get how severe was Padilla's Incident, and the repercussions this will have on his health, family, and career.

Do you understand the essence of this festivities At all (or bull fightings, so u can get my question, gotta' speak da same language right? Otherwise you wouldn't understand). Nonetheless, have you ever attended a BULLFIGHTING? Or.... Have you ever been to Spain? Do you get the point behind celebraTions like these? Do you know the story behind festivities like these and what they mean to a culture? Do you happen to manage the slang or at least understand it? I really.. Dont think so... It'll be very hard fot you to understand it, due to the fact that you just don't know what the hell bullfightings are... Do you know the story behind the bulls? Where would they be if it wasn't for this traditional festivities? (just FYI: extinct) I insist, you don't know... Google it! I'm sure you use google to find all your answers. I accept that some people think this is a cruel situation for the animal... You may be right! But do not rejoyce on a human's tragedy!! An animal, is an animal. But, a human being, is a human being! If you feel such disguise to this type of animal cruelty, create the PETA foundation #2 and start acting more, and typing, blogging, and talking less.

I insist you limited people don't get thiis... Paradogically, and No offense, For us, it'll be as hard, as trying to understand the family values and family structures in america. Why cant't we get it? Because we have been raised in different enviroments, and the outcomes are evidently, different. We can't judge your family values and schemes because we do not know about it.... So, we DO NOT share our opinions or points of view on the subject.

That is why, overall, I invite you to keep on reading the news, or if it is easier, watching them on TV. it is good for you to be informed, and to realize that there borders beyond North America. However, limit yourself to give harsh and personal opinions about events you just don't know about. Keep on giving your opinion about... The super bowl, football, immigration, or even Uncle Sam and taxes....

I have to remark that... Sometimes, Ignorance is SO BOLD!

Himself said...

Bottom line is, that, due to your primitive culture ( no Spanish influence whatsoever, evidently)

No, there's not much of it here in England.

you'll never understand the essence of CORRIDAS DE TOROS

You are quite right, being civilised does have its drawbacks.

( in your boring and limited language: bull fightings?)

Thank you, I would never have guessed.

Never, in a million years, we shall rejoyce on someone's tragedy

Yet you rejoice in the tragedy of the bullring, not only do you rejoice in it, you pay money to do so.

I'm not even sure if you get how severe was Padilla's Incident,

Oh I do, just short of fatal I believe.

and the repercussions this will have on his health, family, and career.

My heart bleeds, but not quite as much as the rivers of bull's blood that Padilla has spilled.

have you ever attended a BULLFIGHTING?

No, I would poke my eyes out with a sharp stick before doing so.

Have you ever been to Spain?

Yes, extremely pleasant.

Do you know the story behind festivities like these and what they mean to a culture?

Culture as in the culture of the arena? It's not of our time.

Do you know the story behind the bulls? Where would they be if it wasn't for this traditional festivities? (just FYI: extinct)

An appalling and irrelevant argument.

Google it! I'm sure you use google to find all your answers.

Watch your step!

I accept that some people think this is a cruel situation for the animal... You may be right!

I have never been more right in my life.

But do not rejoyce on a human's tragedy!! An animal, is an animal. But, a human being, is a human being!

A truer word, you have never spoken.

If you feel such disguise to this type of animal cruelty, create the PETA foundation #2 and start acting more, and typing, blogging, and talking less.

But I do, along with thousands of others, I contribute sufficient of my pension, that it makes me aware that I do so.

I insist you limited people don't get thiis... Paradogically, and No offense, For us, it'll be as hard, as trying to understand the family values and family structures in america.

If I were an American, I would accept your argument.

That is why, overall, I invite you to keep on reading the news, or if it is easier, watching them on TV. it is good for you to be informed

From television?!!!! Oh please.

Keep on giving your opinion about... The super bowl, football, immigration, or even Uncle Sam and taxes....

Not applicable.

I have to remark that... Sometimes, Ignorance is SO BOLD!

Extremely so, especially in capital letters.

Anything else?

Then it just falls upon me to wish Jose Padilla, a long long life, so that every day he might look in the mirror, be reminded, and perhaps reflect, that he is a twat, and that he got his. (Just desserts).

Anonymous said...

CAS International (Comité Anti Stierenvechten) is the biggest organization in the world which works exclusively on the abolition of bullfighting and cruel fiestas (festivals) during which bulls and other animals are tortured. Together with our colleague organizations, we want to end this animal abuse as soon as possible.

http://www.cas-
international.org/en/news/

Kind regards from the Netherlands.

Himself said...

Ana M Brochett, just for you.

http://bit.ly/xK5Ihy

Anonymous said...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/
destinations/europe/spain/9383232
/Five-injured-in-Spains-Pamplona-
running-of-the-bulls.html

thrill-seekers!

What is wrong with these people?

Himself said...

Machismo.

Anonymous said...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/12/four-gored-pamplona-bull-run

Anonymous said...

XENA&TRACY

This is just animal abuse. I feel so sad and sorry about these beautiful and majestic animals being tortured and killed by idiots who think this is a sport. I have no sympathy for any of the so-called humans, wish they all got gored and died. Wake up people---This is not a sport!!

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/american-gored-bull-pamplona-sixth-running-bulls-article-1.1397139

Anonymous said...

http://theportugalnews.com/news/tourists-are-being-tricked-claims-albufeira-anti-bullfight-movement/28844

Himself said...

Good morning Maren, I'm going through your stuff, 'twixt slurps of tea.

Anonymous said...

In Portugal, more than 4,000 bulls a year are killed for bullfighting and other cruel events. Bullfights are also organized on the Azores Island (an autonomous archipelago that belongs to Portugal), such as on the islands Terceira and Graciosa. Both islands have their own bullring.

http://www.cas-international.org/en/home/suffering-of-bulls-and-horses/bullfighting/portugal-touradas/

Anonymous said...


http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/local/thousands-run-with-the-bulls-in-dinwiddie/article_a7a4958a-0cf2-11e3-bf29-0019bb30f31a.html

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