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An Irish man was found dead lying in a pool of blood after he was mauled by a vicious chicken, according to reports. Jasper Kraus, of Killahornia, was killed by a brutal Brahma chicken in April 28, 2022, according to a recent inquest in Ballaghaderreen, the Irish Examiner reported. Kraus’ daughter Virginia Guinan said in a deposition that he was asleep when she dropped by that day and she didn’t want to wake him because he was in ill health and also upset that his dog had died. Alerted about the bloodbath later, Guinan rushed back to his home, where...

How dare you reject the Official Approved Narrative parroted by the regime media about the weird Schiff that went down at Casa de Pelosi the other night. There’s only one possible explanation, according to experts, licensed journalists, and our betters – an underwear-clad MAGA assassin from a hippie commune in Berkeley who is best known for his nudist activism broke into the oddly unguarded mansion of the Speaker of the House, a wealthy woman who has her police force and has not been shy about expounding on the perilous peril she faces from murderous insurrectionists, carrying a hammer and encountered...

MEXICO CITY — Gunmen massacred 20 people on Sunday night in a suspected gangland attack at a clandestine cockfighting venue in western Mexico, authorities said, in one of the worst mass shootings under the current government. The killings took place in Las Tinajas in the state of Michoacan, where the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) has been fighting local gangs for control of drug routes. “It was a massacre of one group by another,” President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told a regular news conference, expressing his regret at the deaths. He blamed criminal gangs in the area for the...

DELANO, Calif. -- A Central California man who was at a cockfight died after being stabbed in the leg by a bird that had a knife attached to its own limb, officials confirmed Monday. Jose Luis Ochoa, 35, of Lamont, was declared dead at a hospital about two hours after he was injured in neighboring Tulare County on Jan. 30, the Kern County coroner said. An autopsy concluded Ochoa died of an accidental "sharp force injury" to his right calf. Sheriff's spokesman Ray Pruitt said it was unclear if a delay in seeking medical attention contributed to Ochoa's death.

DELANO (AP) — A California man attending a cockfight has died after being stabbed in the leg by a bird that had a knife attached to its own limb.

DELANO, Calif. (AP) -- A California man attending a cockfight has died after being stabbed in the leg by a bird that had a knife attached to its own limb. The Kern County coroner says 35-year-old Jose Luis Ochoa was declared dead at a hospital about two hours after he suffered the injury in neighboring Tulare County on Jan. 30.

<p>Police in a small Texan town north-west of Fort Worth have raided an illegal cockfight, arresting 169 viewers and cock owners and seizing more than 100 roosters who were being pitted against each other to the death.</p> <p>As a police helicopter swooped on the fighting pit that had been erected near Poolville in northern Texas, many more spectators scattered and managed to get away. Among those arrested were up to 15 children, some as young as seven, who had been watching with their parents.</p>

ALPINE, Ore. -- Corvallis Police have arrested a man who is accused of running a cockfighting operation. Officers searched the Van Beek Dairy near Alpine and found more than 35 birds, according to officers. Police said they seized two roosters as evidence and that the roosters show signs of having been used for the illegal fights. The rest of the birds were left at the dairy. Martin Ramos-Reyes, 39, is in custody at the Benton County Jail in connection with the investigation. Ramos-Reyes, who worked and lived at the farm and also owned the roosters, used them as fighting birds,...

Iran is threatening to retaliate for what it calls the "kidnapping" of Revolutionary Guard officers by abducting Americans and feeding them to roosters. In an article in the Revolutionary Guard's weekly paper, Reza Faker believed to have close links to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned: "We've got the ability to capture a nice bunch of blue-eyed, blond-haired officers and feed them to our fighting cocks. Iran has enough people who can reach the heart of Europe and kidnap Americans and Israelis."The warning comes after the recent disappearance of three high-profile Iranian officers. Earlier this month came the revelation that Ali Reza...

The Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office is investigating a fatal shooting Saturday night in Needville that happened as more than 100 people gathered to watch a cock fight. The shooting took place at about 10:07 p.m. in the 6600 block of Beard Road when some of the spectators apparently had an argument over who won the fight, authorities said. Jose Alfredo Morales, 32, of Los Fresno was shot in the back area and pronounced dead at the scene. The second victim, Jose Ramon Jauregue, 23, of Corpus Christi, suffered gunshot wounds to the leg and abdomen area and was transported...

PRINCESS ANNE, Md. -- Felipe, an orange-feathered rooster from Pennsylvania, faced near-certain death when police busted his cockfighting match on a rural compound in 2001. Instead, he checked into the Eastern Shore Chicken Sanctuary. After three weeks of psychological treatment, the 1½-foot-tall fowl kicked his drug habit and stopped picking fights. Today, he lives peacefully with 200 other feathered residents at the center, often cozying up to a flock of Florida hens. Felipe was lucky. Most of the millions of roosters bred for cockfighting in the U.S. face a gruesome end. If they're not slaughtered during combat, they are often...

(AP) At least twelve dozen people were arrested Saturday as about a hundred federal agents and other law enforcement officers raided what they said may have been the largest cockfight in the country. Several SWAT teams, helicopters and dozens of state troopers participated in the raid Saturday on the sprawling Del Rio Cockfight Pit in Cocke County, Tennessee. They seized about $40,000 in cash and killed more than 300 roosters. "Reputedly, this was the largest cockfight in the United States," said District Attorney Al Schmutzer Jr. "It was becoming open and notorious, and you just can't stand back and let...

AN American senator hopes to revive cockfighting in the state of Oklahoma 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 Senator Frank Shurden, a Democrat from Henryetta and a long-time defender of cockfighting, said the ban had wiped out a $US100 million ($129 million) business. To try to revive it, he has proposed that roosters wear little boxing gloves attached to their spurs, as well...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Animal-rights activism is colliding head-on with rural tradition in Oklahoma, where voters will decide Nov. 5 whether to ban cockfighting in one of the last three states to allow the bloody spectacle. Supporters of the proposed ban say cockfighting is inhumane and gives the state a bad name. Opponents say the sport, also legal in Louisiana and New Mexico, is a livelihood for people who raise the birds and is no crueler than the way chickens are raised and slaughtered. Cockfighting became legal in Oklahoma in 1963, when the state Court of Criminal Appeals ruled that...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 9/7/02 USS George Washington, Kabul, Peshawar, Bannu, Al Qaeda, Baghdad, cockfight, tatoo, tea house, al-Doura oil refinery, Jerusalem, Gaza, bomb-making factory, South Bend Indiana, Munich Olympics+30 ===================== USS George Washington =================== On the USS George Washington, starting with night time live fire training exercise with 50-calibre machine guns. ===================== Kabul =================== In Kabul, moving to sell her baked bread. In Kabul, at the funerals, after the bomb explosion in downtown Kabul (final pic). ===================== Peshawar =================== In Bannu, 112 miles southwest of Peshawar, Pakistan, proterrorists meet to support Al Qaeda. ===================== Baghdad...