Posted on 6/13/2005, 6:48:24 AM by seacapn
(AP) At least twelve dozen people were arrested Saturday as about a hundred federal agents and other law enforcement officers raided what they said may have been the largest cockfight in the country.
Several SWAT teams, helicopters and dozens of state troopers participated in the raid Saturday on the sprawling Del Rio Cockfight Pit in Cocke County, Tennessee. They seized about $40,000 in cash and killed more than 300 roosters.
"Reputedly, this was the largest cockfight in the United States," said District Attorney Al Schmutzer Jr. "It was becoming open and notorious, and you just can't stand back and let something operate like that in the community."
"By and large, these people who are fighting chickens are law-abiding citizens, but they're violating the law when they fight roosters in Tennessee," he told The Knoxville News Sentinel.
The 144 were each charged with being a spectator to cockfighting, a misdemeanor in Tennessee. If convicted, they face up to 11 months and 29 days in jail and a $2,500 fine.
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So LEAVE THEM BE! Stories like this make me decreasingly confident in the federal agencies that are supposed to 'protect' us all.
If this were San Francisco, it wouldn't be poultry.
So glad a blow was struck against the cruelty of cockfighting! Why one of those handsome birds could have been --
Err, never mind.
This is sheer insanity.
Why is cockfighting even against the law? Cruelty to animals? So then hundreds of rooseter are killed to show them mercy? WTF???
It's a world gone mad.
Where are the pictures?
ping
So uhh Eaker wasn't invited ?........:o)
Cockfight? I thought this was a congressional leadership meeting.
So, that's what they all do for entertainment around there. Looks like it would have been a good scene for a Police Academy movie.
Several SWAT teams, helicopters and dozens of state troopers participated in the raid Saturday on the sprawling Del Rio Cockfight Pit in Cocke County, Tennessee. They seized about $40,000 in cash and killed more than 300 roosters.
Thank heaven those roosters were rescued. Unfriggen-believable.
Is there enough living brain cells spread out amongst our federal agents today, that would be adequate enough to make up even one brain of average intelligence? I tend to doubt it.
I prefer pissing contests...
Things that make you groan and just want to bang your head aginst the keyboard...
Will someone calculate the taxpayer price-tab for this friggin' "Police Academy" boondoggle?
Helicopters, hundreds of federal agents, the huge logistic train the inevitably accompanies ANY operation of this sort... and golly-gee they swoop down and nab 144 desperados in bib-overalls and John Deere hats, kill a few hundred chickens and haul off a grand total of less than 50,000 bucks.
Police Academy, Hell. If they had proposed this as a script, it would have been rejected as too stupid.
"By and large, these people who are fighting chickens are law-abiding citizens."
You're right and the above statement says it all about our current illegal immigration policy; People just trying to make a better life for their families. Our gubermint has the resources to make a sweep like this but have no jurisdiction over 20,000,000 illegal aliens invading our culture? I'd rather see cockfights on every street corner than 20,000,000 illegals raping our society.
Glad they had left the matches at home this time around or it'd be roast chicken fiesta!
It wasn't.
Your opening comment was well said!
Yeah, Its quite pathetic. Who'd they have in charge? Rosco P Coltrain?
It almost sounds like somebody had a grudge against somebody else, and wanted to 'teach them a lesson' using the federal police power.
Not to mention porous borders convenient for Al-Qaeda operatives to march through.
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