This is a bit quite gross fiesta even the goose are all already dead. The competitors try to prove their skill at tearing the head off a goose. Geese are hung from a rope over the harbour as participants, passing on a boat, attempt to grab the bird. They are then lifted up and plunged into the water until they pull off its neck or fall down into the water. Those who succeed in pulling the neck off get to keep the goose.
A competitor attempts to tear off the head of a killed goose attached to a rope, which is repeatedly raised and lowered into the harbour, during fiestas in the Basque fishing town of Lekeitio September 6, 2009. Successful participants are allowed to keep the goose. Picture taken September 6, 2009. REUTERS/Vincent West (SPAIN SOCIETY ANIMALS)
A festival reveler tries to wrench the head off a goose in the annual festival in the Basque town of Lekeitio on the northern coast of Spain September 5, 2001. Contestants hold on to the animal, already dead, and are hauled up on a rope suspended between the walls of the harbour and repeatedly dropped until they fall or manage to tear it's neck. The tradition is said to come from when fishermen from the port picked up the animals while out at sea and competed amongst each other to take them home. REUTERS/Vincent West
A man attempts to pull the neck off a goose while being repeatedly plunged into the water during a traditional fiesta in the Basque fishing town Lekeitio, near Bilbao September 5, 2000. The "Day of the Geese" was originallly celebrated with live geese, though in recent years the animals were killed beforehand. Geese are hung from a rope over the harbour as participants passing on a boat attempt to grab the animal and are then lift it up and plunge into the water until they pull off its neck or fall down into the water. Those who succeed in pulling the neck off get to keep the goose.
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