WWT: Kid Grabs Bull by the Horns

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Story Published: Sep 17, 2007 at 10:43 PM PST

By Mike Crispino

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During the weekly bullfighting at the Plaza de Toros ring in Mexico City, one of the youngest apprentice matadors in Mexico was nearly impaled.

Rafael Mirabal's only 11 years old.

It obviously didn't scare him and his parents probably weren't too worried either.

Rafita started training to become a Matador when he was just five according to his pops (wonder if dad lets his other kids swim with skarks and base jump off bridges and cliffs?).

I asked my mom to drive a race car when I was a kid. She said no. I never got to drive a race car, but I lived.

Mirabal fights the bull under the watch of two older bullfighters who observe him in the ring but try not to interfere. In other words, if the bull wants to kill the kid, the only thing stopping the bull is the sanity of parents which obviously wouldn't play a role in this case.

The animal tossed the boy into the air, swept him to the ground between its horns, and then trampled him, but Rafita stood up immediately while the audience applauded his bravery.

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