Posted on 02/03/2009 8:11:23 AM PST by AuntB
RAMSEUR, N.C. -- Sheriff's deputies in North Carolina arrested 73 people on Saturday in what they called the largest cockfighting bust in county history.
Deputies received a tip that led them to a large-scale cockfighting ring in Ramseur, N.C., local television station WXII reported.
"This is the largest in Randolph County that I know of and maybe in North Carolina," Sheriff Maynard Reid said. "This was a huge operation."
Deputies arrested 73 people and said many of them were illegal aliens.
"Several illegal aliens in the bunch, a detainee will be placed on them and they will be deported," Reid said.
Animal control officers seized 130 roosters used in the fights.
"These birds can't be together," said Mimi Cooper, of Randolph Animal Control. "They'll kill each other. So they each have to be housed separately, and I don't know if they ever can be more than a fighting rooster."
Deputies said that this was no small-town bust. According to police, people came from as far away as Vermont and bet tens of thousands of dollars inside the ring.
At the time of the bust, police said $40,000 was on the line.
Cockfighting carries a felony charge and a maximum 10-year sentence in North Carolina, and officials said the gamblers in the ring were not amateurs.
Animal control officers at the scene found metal spikes that were attached to the chickens and found a pile of chickens that lost their lives while the gamblers hoped to get closer to the cash.
"There's dead chickens everywhere out the back door," Cooper said. "They just throw them out the back door when they get killed in the fight."
Randolph County deputies said they expect to be at the scene well into the night to oversee the towing of dozens of cars and the processing of 73 new felony charges.
The practice is illegal in 48 states. It is legal in New Mexico and Louisiana, and many immigrants from countries like Mexico and the Philippines continue their involvement in the sport after coming to the U.S.
Here is a list of dirty dam dog Americans that enjoyed cockfighting.
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, and Abraham Lincoln.
“As long as the
Almighty has permitted
intelligent men, created
in his likeness to fight in
public and kill each
other while the world
looks on approvingly, it’s
not for me to deprive
the chickens of the same
privilege.”
Abraham Lincoln
http://www.petitiononline.com/roosters/petition.html
OK, I posted this as sacasm.
I have a few laying hens for eggs but chickens are dumb, dumb, dumb.
Aw boo hoo. Ever been inside a chicken plant?
Check this photo out Travis. This was an arrest in Medford, Oregon for armed robbery. We’re used to seeing MS-13 tattoos, but on his neck, this perp, has ‘IRISH PRIDE’......what the heck! Are the immigrant Irish now forming gangs???
http://web.jacksoncounty.org/Jail/Inmate.aspx?SheriffOfficeNumber=00110043&BookingNumber=0900797
” “There’s dead chickens everywhere out the back door,” Cooper said. “They just throw them out the back door when they get killed in the fight.”
Aw boo hoo. Ever been inside a chicken plant? “
Ever lived next door to one of these cock fighting ‘homes’?
Like minds.... take it to the gutter right off the bat!
ping
Nope they’re usually far off the road in a remote area.
“Nope they’re usually far off the road in a remote area.”
Well, it happened in my neighborhood. We were 3 miles from city center, in what was nice homes and groomed yards. No more.
Louisiana has many cockfight places.
The Irish that stayed around Boston formed gangs
that turned one of the founding states into what
they are now.
Yep!!
I used to do this when I was a teen in the Virgin Islands. Still love it.
“I used to do this when I was a teen in the Virgin Islands. Still love it.”
Great. Just don’t love it here, it’s illegal in 48 states. I’ve seen these bloody events...It’s difficult to imagine how any human being can ‘love’ it.
That does it, I’m cutting my nephew Patrick out of the will. That boy was always trouble.
LOL.
oh Gawd...
the pure horror of roosters killing each other
i need a drink
Not that it makes a difference but the fights down there were with bone spurs not steel spurs{=
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gaQDR1Omn_A
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