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Cops bust up cockfighting ring

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by The Big Ragu, Feb 10, 2014.

  1. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    Louisiana, too. Up until a few years ago, cockfighting was legal there.
     
  2. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    Roy Jones Jr. is quaking in his boots right about now.
     
  3. SixToe

    SixToe Well-Known Member

    I've wanted to see one for years and finally found a contact who can take me. I hope to go this spring or summer.
     
  4. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    In California, the cocks rise up and kill a man.

    http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/115315954.html
     
  5. Shoeless Joe

    Shoeless Joe Active Member

    A few years ago in the next county, there was a huge cockfighting raid. It was a huge federal investigation. These folks had a massive setup with a little stadium, betting windows ... the whole nine yards. It was a huge family affair with kids there and everything. As previously noted, it was just Saturday night, apparently. The feds seized hundreds of thousands in cash, the birds, drugs, you name it. A woman I worked with came in laughing, saying her young female cousin had been arrested in the raid. I asked if the girl was really involved in cockfighting. She said, "No. She was working the concession stand."

    If you've ever been arrested while working the concession stand at an illegal cockfighting operation, you might be a redneck! (I do not know if they served chicken)

    I have never been to, nor to I plan to ever attend, a cockfight. I'm about as far from PETA head as it comes, but forcing any animals to fight is about as disgusting as it comes and as far as I am concerned hopefully sends someone on the express ticket to the ninth level of hell*. What most people don't know is it's not as if there is a champion rooster defending his title week to week. The winner of the fight is usually so badly injured he is killed, too. What people bet on is blood lines and breeders.

    *don't get me started on sons of bitches involved in dog fighting.
     
  6. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Unless the cocks are gay.
     
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