The Mouse That Roared

I prefer to cover the grass-roots of the sport - all the farmers and ramblers who go into battle with cattle without expectation of reward - rather than the crassly commercialised and sanitised version offered up to tourists in Spain, but this story deserves a mention:

A bull named Mouse has claimed its third victim, killing a man during an amateur event at the traditional August fiesta in the region of Valencia. Mouse is renowned in Spain, where his fearsome record in the ring has made him a legend and a big draw for both bullfighters and spectators. The bull had already killed twice before in the last 10 years.

His latest victim, who died in hospital after being tossed around by the bull, appeared drunk, reports say... Video images filmed in the ring, and shown hourly on Spanish television, show the bull lifting the man on his horns and tossing him to the floor before attacking him further. The man was immediately dragged out of the ring but died in hospital.

Reports in the local media say he had appeared to be drunk and had already been removed from the ring several times before the bull appeared.

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