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Spain Cipotegato Festival

A hooded man with a colorful outfit known as the 'Cipotegato' acknowledges the crowd after running through the streets of Tarazona, Spain, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015. Following a tradition coming from at least the middle of the XVIII century, thousands of people gather every year at midday in Tarazona's main square waiting to throw tomatoes to the Cipotegato character, that represents a prisoner from the local jail that was given the chance to escape to freedom after crossing through a crowded village. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos) A hooded man with a colorful outfit known as the 'Cipotegato', center left, acknowledges the crowd from the top of a sculpture after running through the streets of Tarazona, Spain, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015. Following a tradition coming from at least the middle of the XVIII century, thousands of people gather every year at midday in Tarazona's main square waiting to throw tomatoes to the Cipotegato character, that represents a prisoner from the local jail that was given the chance to escape to freedom after crossing through a crowded village. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos) Revelers are sprayed with water from the balconies during the Cipotegato festival in Tarazona, Spain, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015. Following a tradition coming from at least the middle of the XVIII century, thousands of people gather every year at midday in Tarazona's main square waiting to throw tomatoes to the Cipotegato character, that represents a prisoner from the local jail that was given the chance to escape to freedom after crossing through a crowded village. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos) Revelers throw tomatoes at a hooded man with a colorful outfit known as the 'Cipotegato', center, as he runs through the streets of Tarazona, Spain, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015. Following a tradition coming from at least the middle of the XVIII century, thousands of people gather every year at midday in Tarazona's main square waiting to throw tomatoes to the Cipotegato character, that represents a prisoner from the local jail that was given the chance to escape to freedom after crossing through a crowded village. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos) The man anonymously elected to be the 'Cipotegato' adjusts his colorful mask before running through the streets of Tarazona, Spain, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015. Following a tradition coming from at least the middle of the XVIII century, thousands of people gather every year at midday in Tarazona's main square waiting to throw tomatoes to the Cipotegato character, that represents a prisoner from the local jail that was given the chance to escape to freedom after crossing through a crowded village. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos) A hooded man with a colorful outfit known as the 'Cipotegato' acknowledges the crowd while is carried on the shoulders of revelers after running through the streets of Tarazona, Spain, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015. Following a tradition coming from at least the middle of the XVIII century, thousands of people gather every year at midday in Tarazona's main square waiting to throw tomatoes to the Cipotegato character, that represents a prisoner from the local jail that was given the chance to escape to freedom after crossing through a crowded village. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)