DARWIN AWARDS... TORTURING FARM ANIMALS EDITION

-- "A 61 year-old man has died and his friend has been injured during a bull-running festival in the town of Pobla de Farnals in the Valencia region in Spain, authorities say. Deaths and injuries during bull-running festivals in Spain are not uncommon." --

And...

-- "A 30-year-old bull rider was taken to the trauma centre at The Ottawa Hospital’s Civic campus on Sunday afternoon, after being kicked in the head by a 1,300-pound bull." --

Learning the hard way...

-- "Sabrina Peckham, 41, whose lifeless body was found clenched between a 14-foot alligator’s jaws was arrested just two months earlier for trespassing on county wetland property." --