Someone should have told Spanish matador Julio Aparicio that if you mess with the bull you get the horns.

The beloved bullfighter was gored through the throat while simply trying to entertain families during the Festival of Saint Isidro at the Plaza de Toros las Ventas in Madrid last week. Nearly 24,000 people witnessed in horror as a 1168 lb. bull ruined the festivities in a brutal display of calculated retribution.

One of Aparicio’s medics described the injury to Madrid’s AFP News:

The horn went though the tongue and penetrated the roof of the mouth, fracturing the jawbone.

The bull was rightfully put down for his crime.

Aparicio, who has since undergone surgeries to reconstruct his throat, mouth, and palate, returned this morning to intensive care due to infection.