Posted on 02/09/2005 9:12:59 AM PST by JCRoberts
by Jason Copeland, KGRN, Grinnell
Several chickens that cops believe were being raised for cock fighting have been rescued in Marshalltown. Marshalltown police served a search warrant at a Marshalltown residence on Friday. Six chickens were found along with knives, spurs, and other items associated with cock fights. Information obtained during that search led to the search of another residence where an estimated 50 to 60 more chickens were discovered. Ignacio Lizarde-Herra and Juan Sanchez Armas are both charged with multiple counts of raising chickens for fighting and possession of such birds. They are also charged with raising poultry in a residential area. Marshalltown Police Chief Lon Walker says this is the first time they've found chickens raised as fighting birds in the city.
Cockfighting was once a popular wagering sport in every part of this country. Even many of our founding fathers enjoyed the practice. Unfortunatly, Southern California suburban tightasses, many of whom are on this site, will condemn it as "an invention of illegal Mexicans."
All they have to do is put little boxing gloves on their feet as one Oklahoma state legislator has proposed in a bill.
No word on whether that passed or not.
Let's put an end to this now!!!!
::going to get the BBQ::
It's FreeRepublic Cockfight Extravaganza Day!!
I've posted before about whites I know that raise fighting pit bulls, but considering the names of the people involved in the story, this may not have been the best thread to support your hypothesis.
Ciudad Marshall has made FR two days in a row!
I still think it is disgusting :)
Which goes to show that even great men can do stupid things.
I'm of Dominican ancestry, and I can tell you, it's not just a Mexican thing. :) And when I lived in Bensonhurst, I knew a Sicilian family who kept a few "bad ass" roosters, but no chickens. It must be a New York thing.
Remember that the mascot for the University of South Carolina is The Fighting Cock. It just illustrates how widespread cockfighting was in this country at the time.
I'm saying that at ONE TIME, before this country became filled with tight a-ssed suburbanites, cockfighting was popular all throughout the land. Its not my fault that so many white folks decided to leave behind their rural, masculine roots.
You may be on to something...I can picture it now...Iowa: First in Cockfighting. No need for silly tax cut plans. This is a winner.
You like dogfights too?
"Rural, masculine roots" is, IMO, code for buck-toothed, shoe-sized-IQ behavior.
If you'll check around, it ain't the sharp knives that are griping about the vanishing and "noble sport" of cockfighting.
I figured this was a feminist article.
You will never catch me anywhere near a place there are chickens! Those things scare the living hell outta me. I know it is silly. I can tell myself, "It is just a chicken, for Christ's sake." But if I find myself close to one, I will run away squealing in a panic. Probably pissing my pants as I go. Have no idea why, really.
I am mostly of Mostly Dominican heritage, with a little bit of Spanish (and German-Irish by injection). So you can call me, but you'll have to ask my husband first. :)
Wasn't Port Royal, SC originally founded as a Spainsh town?
Masculine to watch chickens fight with barbs strapped to their feet? Not the best example of rural manhood, IMHO.
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