Lawmaker wants tiny boxing gloves on roosters

CNN ^ | Wednesday, January 26, 2005 Posted: 9:35 PM EST (0235 GMT) | CNN

[Middle-O-Road]

OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) -- 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."

[saquin]

Boxing gloves on fighting roosters are stupid, of course, but so are razor blades.

My thoughts exactly. How are razor blades any better or less stupid?

[RetroWarrior]

For the same reason that rooster's need boxing gloves. Because a Dem says so

[RetroWarrior]

But do bees pass on the left or the right?

[Libertina]

Better yet, how do the GET into office in the first place? Gad...

[Mercat]

I would think that bees need teeny tiny condoms on their stingers.

[Middle-O-Road]

LOL! That's TOOOOOO much information!

[RetroWarrior]

I thought bees used IUD's

[TASMANIANRED]

Bee's don't need IUD's. They are all female, They munch carpet.

[RetroWarrior]

Lesbian bees? That more than I needed to know. ;-)

[kenth]

And I thought the Sooners were embarrassing this year...

[TASMANIANRED]

There are only males produced with the colony needs to split up.

They have queens though.

[RetroWarrior]

The males mate once and die. A feminist wet dream.

[TASMANIANRED]

Sure sucks for them.

[eddie willers]

The males mate once and die

Bill Clinton wouldn't nave seen 13.

[RetroWarrior]

The males mate one and die. That's what happens when Woman rule. Sorry Ladies ;-)

[Middle-O-Road]

The males mate one and die. That's what happens when Woman rule. Sorry Ladies ;-)

Wrong! That implies too much childbirth or WE would only get to mate once, and that would NEVER work! ;)

[RetroWarrior]

Maybe we would only mate once, but we'd try over and over.

[eddie willers]

Maybe we would only mate once, but we'd try over and over.

Marry a teacher. You have to keep doing it 'til you get it right.

[RetroWarrior]

Practice makes perfect

[ChefKeith]

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