A bull stomps on fans and a champ breaks a leg

April 23, 2008

Posted on Tue, Apr. 22, 2008 LOL! I wonder if someone told him to "break a leg" before his ride. Being as "intelligent" as cowboys are, he did! MUAHAHAHAHAHA! Star-Telegram Staff Writer Rodeos occasionally have incidents that turn out to be bigger stories than the competition. That was the case at the 87th Red Bluff (Calif.) Round-Up on Sunday, when a bull scaled a fence and injured several spectators, and the defending world champion saddle bronc rider broke his leg in a non-rodeo event. A bucking bull named Blue Steel jumped over a fence into a box in the stands after workers had attempted to load the animal in the chutes. The animal raced across the box, stepping on spectators. Six people were treated at a local hospital, but no one was seriously injured. Witnesses said that no more than 20 or 30 seconds elapsed from the

time that the bull leapt over the fence until it was back into the pit thanks to the coaxing of a savvy crew of pick-up men. The incident startled Levi Rosser of Marysville, Calif., who is from a famous family that provides stock for West Coast rodeos. "The bull jumped a seven-foot wall without a running start," Rosser told the Record Searchlight of Redding, Calif. "I'm 28 years old, and I have been around the Red Bluff rodeo all my life, and I've never seen anything like it before. It was chaos for a while." During the same performance, 2007 world champion saddle bronc rider Taos Muncy broke his right leg while participating in a traditional sideshow called "Wild Ride," in which riders dress in a costume and attempt to bust a bronc. Muncy

and Christopher Lappa of Weatherford rode double -- Muncy in the saddle as an American soldier and Lappa on back end as Osama bin Laden. Lappa didn't last long. Muncy, however, made the qualified ride. But, as Muncy was dismounting, his right foot hung in a stirrup. The New Mexico cowboy suffered multiple fractures and could be sidelined three or four months. "It was a freak deal, but I guess it wasn't too smart to be riding double," Muncy said in a statement released by the PRCA. "But I still would do it again. It could have happened at any rodeo at any time. "This is my first real serious injury, but it could have been a lot worse. I'm still breathing." A true cowboy, a true IDIOT! http://pets.Fortheanimals7/join