Gored Turista Is Bullish on Spain

Wearing the traditional white shirts and red bandannas, more than 1,000 people dashed down the cobblestone streets of Pamplona, Spain, ahead of six charging bulls. It was the annual running of the bulls, made famous by Ernest Hemingway in his 1926 novel, “The Sun Also Rises.” Pascal Juang, 21, a New Yorker and recent Stanford University graduate, was gored in the backside, and 23 other runners suffered bruises in the half-mile sprint from the Santo Domingo corral to the bullring that is the high point of the eight-day fiesta honoring San Fermin, the city’s patron saint. The runners carry rolled-up newspapers as their only defense against the bulls’ horns. Juang said he was boxed in by the crowd and one bull “got me in the butt” after he vaulted over it. “You only live once,” Juang said, when asked why he made the run. “You might as well get in your licks before you die.” Since the turn of the century, 14 people have been killed running bulls in Spain; hundreds suffer injuries each year.

--Attorney Melvin Belli may have separated from his wife, Lia, but he can’t bear to be parted from his beloved Rumproast. He said he is taking legal steps to acquire “Rumpy,” as the Italian greyhound is called, because the dog was upset at being separated from three other pooches that Belli took with him when he cleared out of the couple’s multimillion-dollar San Francisco mansion last week. Lia Belli, who has filed for legal separation, said she was keeping Rumpy because “I just wanted to have a little watchdog here.” The famed “King of Torts,” who in a forthcoming book advises clients to keep their private lives out of the press, said of his fifth wife: “The dogs hate her. I slept with those dogs for the past five or six years, when I kicked her out of my bed.” He said he feared that his estranged wife would mistreat Rumpy by making him sleep on a cold stone floor.

--In a scene reminiscent of Robert McCloskey’s famed children’s book “Make Way for Ducklings,” a mother duck and her ducklings caused a traffic fowl-up on Interstate 5 in Portland, Ore., before police took them into custody for waddling on a freeway. The hen and her brood were not blocking traffic, Officer Howard Jordan said, but rubbernecking drivers on both sides of the road slowed up to take a look, causing backups. A highway crew used a truck to temporarily block traffic while officers rounded up the ducks. They were taken to a veterinarian, who said he would release them on a pond on his property.