AMERICAN WHO GOT GORED IN RUNNING OF THE BULLS

Matthew Lavin, a 39-year-old painter from New Jersey, was gored through his left thigh on Wednesday morning as he ran with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain. Speaking from his hospital bed just hours after receiving the injury, he described the moment: “I was running and I got caught up in some human traffic, I turned and saw the bull heading towards me and I just thought ‘run faster, get out of the way’, I had about three or four strides to get away but I guess I didn’t get out of the way quickly enough.” As he tried to reach the safety of the barrier the bull caught him and pierced his left thigh. “I knew I had been punctured but at that moment the adrenalin was so great that it didn’t really hurt as much as it should have. I didn’t realize it was so bad,” he said. Despite getting 20 stitches, he insists that he will return one day to run again. “I’m not going to let this put me off. Running with the bulls was one of the greatest experiences I’ve had in my life. I’d love to come back and run again.”
* “Better then that nest of hornets I stirred up painting under the eaves,” he said.
* Well, live and learn. Or not. Your choice.
* “I guess I didn’t get out of the way quickly enough.” Good guess!
* Meanwhile the bulls are thinking, “Sure, come back and run again. We’ll be waiting for you.”
* Now he says he won’t stop ’til a bull gores him right through the groin.
* You’ve heard of the Darwin Awards? This whole running with the bulls thing is like the Darwin Olympics.
* Unless you’re on stilts.
* “I’d love to come back and run again…” See how he’s already distancing himself? You can almost hear him say, “but I don’t think I’ll be able to.”