Dear Mommy,
It’s great visiting Daddy! I’m having the most fun any 10-year-old boy could have! We got ice cream, we saw the new Harry Potter movie, we ran with the bulls in Pamplona, we…
Excuse me? Yeah, it turns out this mother in Spain was less than thrilled to pick up a newspaper and see a photo of her ex-husband leading their son by the arm just a few feet in front of the bulls, in that annual festival where guys do things they would never think of doing sober.
A judge has since revoked visitation rights, and the father may have to wait’ll the cows come home to see his son again. Here’s the story:
A runner is chased by a bull during the fifth day of the running of the bulls at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona July 11, 2007. REUTERS/Joseba Etxaburu
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Yes, that was it!. A child aged ten shouldn´t have been encouraged to run in front of the bulls by his father. It seems that the father wanted to share an unforgettable experience with his son, but the risk of being caught by any bull is obvious. Children are children. That act is punished by law in Pamplona.
- Posted by armstrongfl or Emilio F. EffeAnyway, the father accepted the rules in the end,I have heard on the news this morning.
And she thought she was sick and tired of his bull before this!
- Posted by Charleneyeah, it’s chanllenging and unforgetable for a 10-year-old son, but it’s also dangerous.
- Posted by sunwhitneyIt’s kind of a guy thing. I wish I could see the picture so that I could make up my own mind. I mean, did the guy and son jump off a wall, run three meters just to say that they had done it, then jump right back on a wall? Were ten meters and a hundred guys between the dad/son team? Was the dad behind the son, protecting the son with his own body?
- Posted by Shawn HendricksHad the ex left the former husband with a sublimated death wish? We can’t judge.
Not that it matters. Nobody except the ex-husband was hurt and that’s how >most
You KNOW the son will return as an adult just to thumb his nose at both the judge and his mother.
- Posted by Shawn Hendricks