OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Eleven people, including a district director for the Oklahoma Gamefowl Commission, are facing charges relating to illegal cockfighting.
Of course he fights birds. Why else would he be the director of an organization that advocates for the legalization of cockfighting if he didn't fight them?
I don’t understand why fighting roosters is even illegal in the first place. First, they’re gonna fight anyway, because that’s just what they do. They’ll fight another rooster, or in the absence of another bird, either the dog, the cat, any convenient human, or whatever else they can find. Secondly, roosters are just a-holes to begin with. They have very few redeeming qualities other than being made of meat. Fighting birds seems like a perfectly suitable way to dispose of livestock which otherwise make very little contribution. At least they can be entertaining.
It’s not the fighting itself that makes it illegal It’s the gambling that goes with it Just like making your own whisky Uncle Sam wants it regulated and TAXED. Has nothing to do with morals -just money
Yes, great. Put metal spurs on them so we can watch them shred each other and place bets on the winner. I’m good with that. It’s a bird. If it was 20 feet tall and weighed 2,000 lbs, it would be hunting humans like junebugs. Stop making it out to be some majestic creature.
There used to be a huge chicken fighting arena about 5-6 miles from where I live. It was a large main arena (pole barn) built with bleachers, and three "drag pits", nice restrooms, and even café inside. It was nothing to see 400-1200 people there on a fighting Saturday with women and children. I think it was $10 to park and $20 apiece for admission. The operation is shutdown now, but in years past I have personally seen the high sheriff of our county, one of our elected county commissioners (who raised and fought chickens all of his life) and other people I really did not expect to see there. The first time I attended it was a "5-Cock-$120,000.00 winner take all derby". Another time, my brother and I had driven down there and he said, "what is that helicopter doing"?. There was a helo flying low nearby and I replied to him, "it must be from a nearby coal mining operation". We made our way down the drive and up to the "parking attendant" when the copter landed. That is when dark colored uniform wearing men came out of the adjacent woods and from the helicopter with the letters FBI on their caps and backs of their shirts. They had weapons, but not were careful not to point or threaten anyone. As a matter of fact I saw a couple with AR style rifles and one with a H&K subgun. Two of the FBI men walked up and asked my brother and I to remain in the truck and if they could see some identification. Next there was another man in uniform walked up with a video camera and filmed the license plate of my brother's truck and our faces while the other "agent" read our personal information from our drivers license. When that was done, he placed a bumper stick on the windshield that read PROCESSED. Then, the man that had first confronted us, said, "you are free to go". That was it. Not another word was ever heard about the incident regarding my brother and I or anyone else in the coming weeks and months. We learned from a good friend that the FBI did basically the same thing inside the main building. There were some stories about people hiding cash money in cracks of the walls, etc. and the agents finding it and pocketing the money. They kept everyone in there about four hours and let them go. As far as I know, no one was charged with anything. A couple of years later the past sheriff and I were talking about that day and he told me, "that was the worst thing that could happen to chicken fighting in our county. There never was any open alcohol, no fights, no one out of the way, etc., but after the feds spooked everyone what was once one large and organized event ended up being broken into a bunch of smaller events down log roads, at abandoned strip pits, etc. where there might be drunks and fighting or worse". He was right. There are still fights (haven't been in years) and several people who make a good living raising, conditioning, and selling roosters.
I don’t understand why fighting roosters is even illegal in the first place. First, they’re gonna fight anyway, because that’s just what they do. They’ll fight another rooster, or in the absence of another bird, either the dog, the cat, any convenient human, or whatever else they can find. Secondly, roosters are just a-holes to begin with. They have very few redeeming qualities other than being made of meat. Fighting birds seems like a perfectly suitable way to dispose of livestock which otherwise make very little contribution. At least they can be entertaining.
ReplyDeleteIt’s not the fighting itself that makes it illegal It’s the gambling that goes with it
DeleteJust like making your own whisky
Uncle Sam wants it regulated and TAXED. Has nothing to do with morals -just money
Yeah, great. Let's put metal spurs on them so we can watch an animal get tortured to death. That's what we do for fun.
DeleteYes, great. Put metal spurs on them so we can watch them shred each other and place bets on the winner. I’m good with that. It’s a bird. If it was 20 feet tall and weighed 2,000 lbs, it would be hunting humans like junebugs. Stop making it out to be some majestic creature.
DeleteAs long as he fights them personally, weight adjusted....say about 30 Roosters vs. him naked
ReplyDeleteDoes a cockfight take place in a cock ring? Askin' for a friend.
ReplyDeleteIn a cockpit. Now you know why airline tickets are so expensive.
DeleteIllegal cockfighting...Kinda implies there may be some legal cockfighting.
ReplyDeleteDaryl
There used to be a huge chicken fighting arena about 5-6 miles from where I live. It was a large main arena (pole barn) built with bleachers, and three "drag pits", nice restrooms, and even café inside. It was nothing to see 400-1200 people there on a fighting Saturday with women and children. I think it was $10 to park and $20 apiece for admission. The operation is shutdown now, but in years past I have personally seen the high sheriff of our county, one of our elected county commissioners (who raised and fought chickens all of his life) and other people I really did not expect to see there. The first time I attended it was a "5-Cock-$120,000.00 winner take all derby". Another time, my brother and I had driven down there and he said, "what is that helicopter doing"?. There was a helo flying low nearby and I replied to him, "it must be from a nearby coal mining operation". We made our way down the drive and up to the "parking attendant" when the copter landed. That is when dark colored uniform wearing men came out of the adjacent woods and from the helicopter with the letters FBI on their caps and backs of their shirts. They had weapons, but not were careful not to point or threaten anyone. As a matter of fact I saw a couple with AR style rifles and one with a H&K subgun. Two of the FBI men walked up and asked my brother and I to remain in the truck and if they could see some identification. Next there was another man in uniform walked up with a video camera and filmed the license plate of my brother's truck and our faces while the other "agent" read our personal information from our drivers license. When that was done, he placed a bumper stick on the windshield that read PROCESSED. Then, the man that had first confronted us, said, "you are free to go". That was it. Not another word was ever heard about the incident regarding my brother and I or anyone else in the coming weeks and months. We learned from a good friend that the FBI did basically the same thing inside the main building. There were some stories about people hiding cash money in cracks of the walls, etc. and the agents finding it and pocketing the money. They kept everyone in there about four hours and let them go. As far as I know, no one was charged with anything. A couple of years later the past sheriff and I were talking about that day and he told me, "that was the worst thing that could happen to chicken fighting in our county. There never was any open alcohol, no fights, no one out of the way, etc., but after the feds spooked everyone what was once one large and organized event ended up being broken into a bunch of smaller events down log roads, at abandoned strip pits, etc. where there might be drunks and fighting or worse". He was right. There are still fights (haven't been in years) and several people who make a good living raising, conditioning, and selling roosters.
ReplyDeleteParagraphs - how do they work?
DeleteWhat the .gov has a problem with is the unregulated betting that goes on at the fights.
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