(CA)Cockfighting Bust Nets More Than 5,000 Birds, 50 Arrests(More info)

orange county register ^ | October 16, 2007 | staff

[kellynla]

SAN DIEGO -- More than 5,000 trained birds have been seized in what authorities said Monday was the largest cockfighting bust in U.S. history.

Agents found 4,400 birds Saturday at a 7-acre compound in the Otay Mesa industrial area of San Diego, near the Mexican border. More than 2,500 birds were seized at the same place six years ago in what was then the largest bust in history.

Hundreds more birds were found at a second training ground nearby, officials said.

Other stings have resulted in more arrests but none have produced more birds, said John Goodwin, manager of animal fighting issues at The Humane Society of the United States, which deployed its own staff on the raid along with local and federal law enforcement agents.

[kellynla]

"The cockfighting operation was managed and patronized largely by Filipinos"

[kellynla]

“They’ll be chicken for dinner tonight!” LOL

[mvpel]

Finger-lickin' good!

[beltfed308]

About 80 percent of the birds seized have been euthanized, Levikow said.

How is this any different than bird fighting? Just a bit more humane is all.

[CDHart]

Cockfights don't generate as much horror as dogfights do. Too bad. They're still living creatures.

Carolyn

[Riverman94610]

Fighting cocks that Americans are too lazy to fight.

[theDentist]

I hear Tyson Chicken have volunteered to watch over the birds...

[nuke rocketeer]

If you have ever raised chickens you would know that roosters will fight at the drop of a hat, whcih is why it became a sport for those who like to see that kind of stuff.

It’s not a horror, just a waste of time.