want something done, you ve got to take the bull by the horns. but as you ll see in our next videos, when a real bull is involved, you d better run for cover. screams of ole turn into screams of terror as a raging bull jumps into the stands. august 18th, 2010. spain, 20 miles south of pamplona, the famed site of the running with the bulls. at the plaza de toros, a bull tries to make a daring escape. he jumps the stadium wall, hops a wire fence and charges into the stands. horrified fans scramble to get away. a man pulls a child out of the bull s path in the nick of time. the half ton bull gores another man in the back and tramples a woman standing next to him.
and they re off. when the barrettes pull into the parking lot, the rodeo s chuck wagon event is getting under way inside the stadium. if you ve ever been close to these chuck wagons when they re racing, it s rumbling, there s a lot of noise, the horses are making noise, the rigs are jumping up and down and rattling. backstage, a bull named hardball is in his holding pen. hardball is a bucking bull. that night he was scheduled what we call a re-ride bull. on any given night, a cowboy may get a re-ride because of something, a bull doesn t buck or a horse falls down or it slams into the chute coming out. as the chuckwagons roar across the stadium, hardball s startled. he ran forward into a gate that was in front of him, pushed it forward and allowed a pin to come out of a gate that was beside him. the gate unlocks and hardball races out toward the exit. this surveillance video catches hardball as he makes his escape out of the stadium and into the loading dock. it was qu
then someone in the crowd grabs the bull by the tail to stop him, but when another person throws a cape to distract him, the bull charges and crushes several more people. frantic spectators leap from the stands into the bull ring for safety. after 15 terrifying minutes, stadium workers finally restrain the bull with ropes. it takes more than a dozen people to subdue the bull. miraculously, no one is killed during the incident. but the bull s rampage injures more than 30 people. five months earlier, another bull wreaks havoc stateside. a rodeo bull escapes from a stadium and runs wild in a parking lot filled with children. i saw the bull and i froze because i didn t know what was going to happen.
the officer gets within a few feet of hardball and lets the taser fly. that just made the bull even angrier, because how would you like to be tasered. it doesn t feel good. the bull charges the officer, missing him by inches. then when all hope seems lost, the cavalry arrives. here comes the cowboy. he ll take care of this. watch this. here s a cowboy. in a scene straight out of an old western, three wranglers rush in on horseback. there was a lot of tension in the parking lot. are they going to be able to get him, are they going to be able to, you know, pull him back, you know, away from everyone. within seconds, one of the cowboys ropes hardball. they got that bull. they got that bull. if you don t have a cowboy on a horse with a rope, you can t control a raging bull. it just doesn t happen. a taser gun is not going to do the trick. it s got to be a cowboy. the cowboys, they could have just sat back and said oh, well,
because there was no sign of anyone that was trying to do anything. a female wrangler steps up to the challenge. hardball charges her and throws her to the ground. he actually bucked a girl and hit her right in the chest, and knocked her back. i feared for her. i was really afraid that she was hurt very severely because he hit her really hard. spectators jumped the fence to escape hardball s charge. a man tries to distract the raging bull with garbage barrels. the bull like almost bucked the trash can and almost hit a guy. the distraction buys enough time for security officers to arrive at the scene. one of them whips out a taser and confronts the powerful bull. you see this cop with a taser gun, that s like swatting an alligator with a flyswatter.