Cockfighting measure on ballot

AP/The Seattle Times ^ | 10/19/02 | Ron Jenkins

[ppaul]

Imagine the millions of dollars spent over this issue!
What a waste.
Any cockfightin' FReepers out there?

[ErnBatavia]

Any cockfightin' FReepers out there?

No, but I had a fascinating tutorial about 30 years ago...drove a girlfriend from L.A. to Salisaw, Oklahoma (hard by Ft. Smith, Arkansas) to her parents' place. Her dad raised fighting cocks and had done so all his life.

Pretty brutal, but the amount of breeding involved could make some cocks extremely valuable.

At that stage, he was retired but kept breeding and manufacturing spurs....in his younger years he'd drive all day and night to Arizona and even Kalifornia to "participate". I seem to recall him telling me that a fight could last as little as three or four seconds - if you had a good bird.

[martin_fierro]

Oh. For a second there I thought this was another one of those "Puppetry of the Penis" stories. <|:)~

[Nayt2]

who cares what someone else wants to do with their animals. animals are property.

[dogbowl]

That's the best way to settle a cockfight: measure.

[vetvetdoug]

I used to go to a lot of cockfights in the Red River Bottom north of Wichita County, Texas. Yes, they were brutal and there was a lot of gambling and drinking going on. The birds were treated very well until the fight. If they won they were treated very well. I never gave much thought to whether or not the fights were humane or not, they were just cock fights between food animals. The birds suffered less in a cock fight than they did at the local slaughterhouse where they had their throats slit and while bleeding and alive were dipped into scalding hot water. They were less brutal than the bullfights at Ciudad Acuna at the Macarena. What did bother me was the guy from the local fried chicken house collecting the losers.

[johnny7]

HA! Yea... “sword-fighting”.

[strela]

What did bother me was the guy from the local fried chicken house collecting the losers.

That would bother me too. Roosters (especially fighting roosters) are never used in decent fried chicken; they're too stringy and tough. Stay well away from that guy's business unless you truly enjoy "rubber chicken."

[PaulJ]

Opponents say the sport...

Sport?? Cockfighting is a sport? What? A couple of tiny fryers duking it out? That's a sport?
Now, dog fighting, that's a sport!

[amigatec]

I live if Oklahoma and I intend to for the ban.

[xrp]

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[amigatec]

I live if Oklahoma and I intend to for the ban. I should have said "I live in Oklahoma and I intend to vote for the ban." Fat Fingers on the keyboard.

[ppaul]

I live in Oklahoma and I intend to vote for the ban

Why?
Just seems like more "do-gooder" government meddling.

[TankerKC]

Cockfighting measure on ballot

As George Carlin would say: "Cock fighting? What?"

[FryingPan101]

"allow the bloody spectacle"

What? Okies aren't happy with the spectacle of the teams slaughtered by the Sooners?

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Gladitorial combat is even better. Basically, if people want to fight animals that is their business.

[tal hajus]

Not a fighter and don't attend 'em, but I'm voting against the ban.

[Cobra64]

When I first read the headline, I thought that Slick and The Swimmer were going to have a duel.

[marktwain]

Not a fighter and don't attend 'em, but I'm voting against the ban.

Good for you! We had this situation in Arizona, and the ban passed. It was pitiful. The OldDominantLiberalMedia out in force, lying their A** off.

The small minority of dedicated cockfighting enthusiasts, begging for help to defeat the measure, virtually closed out of any debate, because they were right and their was no logical reason for the ban.

Ownership of the birds made a felony, so that all would have to be killed, if the afficionados followed the law.

Passage, with the resultant creation of thousands of new felons, and the state with another victimless crime that it can use to persecute those it chooses to.

[Nick Thimmesch]

Hey Butthead: he said "cockfighting".