San Fermin is a Joke and Bull running is both dangerous and Animal Torture

I have seen almost the entire San Fermin Festival and it is clear this is nothing more than the spanish version of Oktoberfest, we went in on Sunday morning at 7am to see the streets awash with drunken people, mountains of trash and the stinking urine laden gutters, it was something i wasn't expecting, this has turned into a money making exercise and nothing else, this sort of activity was last spoken about in the Bible, Sodom and Gomorrah, people were sleeping on the grass verges of the roads in the centre of the city, the police are forced to accept this sort of behaviour just because the city survives on the money from it. We had been told that people start queueing up at the fence along the bull run at 4.30am so as to get the best spot, this is crazy, all for a 3 minute run of the bulls, we arrived at the fence about 7.20am and got to within 2 meters of the fence but could see nothing, as the time came closer we got to 1 meter but could still see nothing, as the bulls came and went we were not sure if they had actually gone as you can here nothing above the runners who were pounding down the street, we heard an Oooooohh, when someone got gored by a bull but it was nothing more than 20 seconds and a total anti-climax. This sort of spectacle of bulls being frightened half to death by 10,000 screaming idiots who think it is fun to run with a dangerous animal, then they are ritually killed in the bull ring by a man who thinks he is special after the bull has been brutalised to exhaustion. The people are primitive savages and this whole event is now a joke, This year there was one death o a runner and a runner who was gored and tossed about like some horror movie and the TV replayed it over and over again, I was sure he was going to die but he is alive I think, so my advice is if you want drinking go to a beach resort or the Oktoberfest, dont get ripped off in Pamplona, my hotel was tripling the room prices for the week of the event.

Dangerous Bulls, this guy was speared and then picked up and speared again on the ground, like a rag doll, he lived luckily




Us at the Fence, couldn't see anything





He sat there for at least an hour, just for 15 seconds of bulls running passed




Looking down the street where the bulls run, balconies are expensive to rent by the day