Colombia

A week of amateur bullfights commonly known as Corralejas have left 48 people injured in Colombia. Every January, hundreds of amateur bull fighters risk their lives jumping into an arena to taunt 1,000-pound bulls in Colombia’s unruly bull festivals. This is so pointless.

Photo of the Moment: Through the Gateway to Heaven, Colombia

Photo of the Moment: December Dreaming in Bogota, Colombia

Colombian Teenagers Create Idiotic, Dangerous “Train Game”

As if we needed further proof that kids are, well, dumb no matter the culture … Colombian teenagers have created a new “sport” they’ve dubbed “the train game”. In this modern version of chicken, the teens await oncoming trains, then quickly lie down between the tracks, allowing the trains to pass (hopefully) harmlessly over them. [...]

Photo of the Moment: Cartagena de Indias, Colombia

Colombia’s Underground School for Pickpockets

© GrooverFW It’s comforting to know that even pickpockets know the value of a good education. The School of the Seven Bells is a legendary, possibly apocryphal, and deliciously plausible school, said to be based in Columbia. Pickpocketing is largely a skilled combination of timing, and distraction, but South American pickpockets are particularly notorious. There [...]

Laziness Rules at Museum of Bogotá

A museum in Bogotá hosted an exhibit last week dedicated to the pursuit of laziness. The entire exhibit consisted of hammocks and beds, and people lounging about on them. The government sponsored exhibit attracted a lot of attention, and according to the Museum of Bogota’s curator was set up to explore the concept of “laziness [...]