I seriously can barely believe this is real. http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3011792 Lawmakers wants to revive cockfights - with tiny gloves Reuters News Service OKLAHOMA CITY - An Oklahoma senator hopes to revive cockfighting in the state by putting tiny boxing gloves on the roosters instead of razors. The Oklahoma legislature outlawed the blood sport in 2002 because of its cruelty to the roosters, which are slashed and pecked to death while human spectators bet on the outcome. But State Sen. Frank Shurden, a Democrat from Henryetta and a long-time defender of cockfighting, said the ban had wiped out a $100-million business. To try to revive it, he has proposed that roosters wear little boxing gloves attached to their spurs, as well as lightweight, chicken-sized vests configured with electronic sensors to record hits and help keep score. "It's like the fencing that you see on the Olympics, you know, where they have little balls on the ends of the swords and the fencers wear vests," said Shurden. "That's the same application that would be applied to the roosters." Janet Halliburton, president of the Oklahoma Coalition Against Cockfighting, which led the drive for the 2002 law, said Shurden is really seeking to loosen the ban. "What this is going to do is make a platform for him to continually try to amend the existing ban," Halliburton told The Oklahoman newspaper. The State Senate will consider Shurden's proposal next month. Little Jerry!!!
In fact, let's get a bunch of bulls and broncos in one place, then we can jump on their backs with spurs, jab the spurs into their sides to make them buck, then we can see who can stay on for 8 seconds. If they don't buck, we can tie ropes around their nuts to piss them off. Also, we can send calves out into a ring and then rope them, jerking their necks to the point of breaking, yank them to the ground, and tie their feet together. And don't forget the kids! Let them yank on the tails and ears of small calves to drag them across a line so that the kids can take them home and fatten them up to be displayed before butchering them. On second thought, that just sounds waaay too cruel.
i suppose this is the best time to mention that in Milan there is this store called Cocks. i did my best to not laugh as i walked by. as for the story, it is oklahoma so it can't be that shocking.
Or better yet, Pit bull dog fighting...yikes! btw, I had raised a pitbull to be as gentle as anything, and honestly the animal had this "instinct" to fight anything smallish or comparable to his size,...loved me, loved other people, but...He killed well over 10 cats in the backyard over 1 1/2 years and fought a stray black labrador dog bloody, before I could handle it. When he started growling at my newborn daughter, he was gone.
Please, they're bred to be agressive. Here in corpus, 90% of dog bite cases annually involve pit bulls.
I believe cockfighting is legal in Puerto Rico, which is a commonwealth of the US. I was down there in August and I saw a pretty big "club gallistico", which means "rooster club", ie cockfighting. Fascinating indeed.
