Kiwis Revel in ‘Running of the Sheep’
Reaching for some of the glamour and danger of the Spanish bull-run city of Pamplona, a New Zealand village ran 2,000 sheep through the middle of town.
No one was chased, trampled or gored in the inaugural “Running of the Sheep.” And instead of seeking cover, most spectators helped stop the shaggy mob from scurrying everywhere but the right direction.
As so-called organizer John Grainger predicted, the result was pure chaos in Te Kuiti, 355 miles north of the capital, Wellington. The event “was extremely ambitious, sheep being sheep, and people being people,” one woman told local TV.
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