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El Pasoan trampled during ‘Running of the Bulls’ in Spain

and one el pasoan lived to tell the tale. abc-7’s luke lyddon is live with his story. rick estela if you were to tell anyone you were running with the bulls in pamplona spain they’d say youre crazy. ’93 irvin graduate oscar morales– checked that off his bucket list. but it didn’t come without a small price to pay. nats: bulls running out of cage” irvin grad oscar morales took a trip halfway across the world to run these narrow streets to become a part of spain’s rich culture. “and then at about 7:50, ten minutes before the run, they let the runners out to find their spot, where you wanna run.” “it’s just like thi heightened sense of adrenaline, like something huge is about to happen” an then it does. morales lined up just 100 yards away from the bull fighting arena and waited more than 2 minutes until– “yo just started to see a flurry, not sure what it was, people panicking or the bulls. but when the bulls came up, you knew that was it and it was go time.” morales hardly had time to see what was coming right toward him. “every man for himself, a lot of bulls are dangerous, but the other danger you have to consider is the danger around you. so what happened to me when i spotted the bull, when i turned around to run. i ran into a pile of people on the floor that i didn’t see before hand.” the el pasoa caught in the middle of 5 runners and 4 bulls with no where to move. “and then i turned around and saw a bull heading towards our pile of people, and that’s when my eyes almost popped out of my head.” he says the bull stepped on both of his calves and hamstrings when he rolled over. but amazingly he finished the run with just a few scratches. “i think i’v rolled the dice enough, and i am satisified with experience, short answer, no.” morales says he thinks he’s rolled the dice enough and won’t do it again. currently he works in dallas as a software developer far far away from won’t do it again. currently he works in dallas as a software developer far far away from those bulls. stormtrack weather is next,.

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