Photos: Seeing red at the 2012 Highland Running of the Bulls

Denver's Running of the Bulls is both everything and nothing like its Pamplona namesake. The two-year-old fundraiser replaces bulls with horn-helmeted Rocky Mountain Roller Girls wielding pool noodles and wiffle-ball bats -- run before they hit you. This year's Highland Running of the Bulls took place on Saturday morning, July...

By Melody Parker

July 9, 2012

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Denver's Running of the Bulls is both everything and nothing like its Pamplona namesake. The two-year-old fundraiser replaces bulls with horn-helmeted Rocky Mountain Roller Girls wielding pool noodles and wiffle-ball bats -- run before they hit you. This year's Highland Running of the Bulls took place on Saturday morning, July 7. Christopher Morgan brings back these photos of a famous Spanish tradition, reinvented.

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