It was an eventful weekend: Nicolas Cage decided that he was going to run for president of Kazakhstan; Mother Teresa arose from the grave and gave a speech at Syracuse University about the dangers of using too much pepper in a chicken alfredo dish; and Charlie Sheen announced that he was going to enter the NFL draft. But I think the most interesting thing that happened this weekend occurred in the city of Pamplona, Spain. Pamplona is probably most famous for the yearly Running of the Bulls, where hundreds of undeserving school children are marched out into the streets of Pamplona and are then ceremoniously mocked by passers-by. "Your mother likes to eat raw spaghetti!" or "Don't you know the difference between John Wayne and Lil' Wayne?!" are a few examples of insults hurled at these poor kids.
Anyway, the happenings in Pamplona this weekend were way more exciting than that. Numerous statues around the city came to life in what some would call "The Great Pamplona Statue Awakening of 2013". Some of the statues were well-behaved and mild-mannered, while others pillaged, rioted, and looted from most of the businesses in town. However, the mean ones only stole from shops that sold a specific variety of soap. Maybe they were just dirty and, being statues with no money, had to resort to stealing this soap so they could clean themselves.
This went on for about a half hour or so. After it was over, the statues went back to their rightful places around town, posed in a
slightly different pose than they were in before, and froze back into position.
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