Posted on 01/26/2005 7:11:17 PM PST by 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."
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I've got a pair of minature boxing gloves sitting on the shelf above my screen right now. The're 2-1/2" long each, well detailed and made of leather.
The're signed by some guy named Jack Dempsey.
"and file a claim against the bee's Insurance Carrier..."
No insurance payout? Then SueBee!!!
I'm being serious right now I have been reading this thread for 25 minutes and i cannot get past this first sentence before i break down laughing so hard i cant see the monitor my stomach hurts right now. I checked 5 times to see if this as scrappleface or the onion in between fits of laughter and it isnt its a "serious" news story.
BTT!!!!!!
we also need blinkers on bats. they swerve very erraticly
and may cause an accident.
Ya think this may be part of his problem?
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