In other news the Colonel is upset because his popcorn chicken supplier failed to make his last delivery....
Posted on 10/15/2007 1:34:45 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
SAN DIEGO – More than 5,000 birds were seized and 50 people were arrested in what's being called the largest cockfighting raid in U.S. history, authorities announced Monday.
Several law enforcement agencies took part in a raid that was carried out in several locations Saturday in South County, said San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis.
The largest of the raids was at a seven-acre compound in Otay Mesa near the border, where 4,400 birds including roosters, hens and chicks were found. “For years this particular site has been a bird factory – raising and training hundreds of roosters for illegal cockfighting,” Dumanis said. “Many of the birds had been maimed and tortured in the name of sport.”
Those arrested were charged with misdemeanors and released. They face up to one year in jail and a $5,000 fine. About five of those arrested are members of the U.S. military, Dumanis said. An additional 50 people are still being sought.
Dozens of boxes of fighting implements, including hundreds of knives, were also seized as well as cockfighting videos, medical supplies, scales, computers, photos of people with their birds and several underground cockfighting publications said, Eric Sakach, West Coast director of the Humane Society of the United States.
Sakach described the fights as a “bloody blurry blur of feathers” that mutilates the birds and reduces them to “chunks of lacerated meat.”
He said the raids were a major setback for the purveyors of the bloody sport throughout the country.
The six-month investigation was led by the County of San Diego Department of Animal Services, said department director Dawn Danielson. She said many of the birds that were seized have already been euthanized.
Anybody from the NFL involved?
I grew up around chickens, never quite did get the fighting part as a sport activity, but folks’ll bet on dang near anything... I’ll eat ‘em but I won’t abuse ‘em. 8-}
“vicked”
There’s a huge cat-juggling operation right here in Cobb County, GA. No one will do anything to stop it.
Nothing on that so far.
It’s early. 5 military tho..
In related new the local KFC Announced the new family dinner special for this week, Bucket O Losers, 16 pieces, 4 sides, 6 biscuits for $15.99.
Don’t they normally have to destroy all the chickens seized,, not sure if they’d make good pets. Maybe San Diego can have a big bbq downtown.. that’s a lot of birds
Ain't multiculturalism wonderful?
“Those arrested were charged with misdemeanors and released.”
What? Where are the federal felony charges? The way those poor birds suffred. They must be inhuman monsters. Anyone who could fight birds deserves to be treated like a murderer or a rapist.
why?...a lot of the chickens were spectators, and they're "not sayin nutin"
Or is it harmful stereotyping, to assume that the cockfighting was the doing of undocumented worker newcomers?
Tenderized by special knives (Gaffs).
It will likely cross the spectrum is my guess... this was no small operation, it should be interesting who emerges as running it.
If you talk to PETA airheads eating them IS abuse. :-)
I would imagine it’s the same ethnic group that is mad at Desperate Housewives.
So, what do birds have to do with “cockfighting”?
In other news the Colonel is upset because his popcorn chicken supplier failed to make his last delivery....
A “free range” yard bird tastes sooooo much better that those pale frozen carcasses that you get in the stores.................
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