So here I am in the sun in Goa, sitting in an internet cafe recounting an Indian bullfight... it has a happy ending.

Normally if anyone were to mention such a thing to me my reaction would be put the people in the ring and the bulls in the stand, then let the people fight it out!

An indian bullfight consists of a great big feild surrounded bu indian males laying bets and generally being very silly. They lead on two of the most docile bulls aon the planet and try and get them to look at each other. This is done by about twenty drunk indians tugging on a rope. The fight then begins.

The idea is to get the bulls to headbutt each other. The betting takes place on the follwing

1 how many times will they bang heads

2 which one will stop first

3 which one will get bored and wander off first

4 how many of the rope pullers will he drag away with him

5how big a hole will he make in the wall off people

and which direction will he/they wander off in.

Often the bulls will not head butt and just drag the guys on the ropes around the field for half an hour, betting is then who will hang on longest. The bulls are not stupid either they drag the rope pullers through every cowpat and thorn bush available.

s a general consensus it would appear that it is Bulls 5 and humans 2. Afterward a bull that has been most entertaining will be feed bananas and anything else it fancies.

In all I think the bulls come out best in the entire affair.

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