11-08-2013, 01:38 PM
A fighting cock with a winning record and the right bloodline can go for anywhere from $500 to $1500, an unproved young bird from random breeding ends up advertised on craigslist for $25. You can mail live adult birds inter island and the lady at the Kea'au PO told me that she had never seen a hen being mailed, just cocks. Online searches show that, in spite of cock fighting being illegal in all 50 states, you can buy all kinds of cock fighting gear, such as the gaffs and knives the attach to the cocks to make them more lethal, as well as find "farms" selling "show birds" on websites where the pictures clearly show cock fighting rings in the background.
Cock fights happen all over the country, rural places, urban places, places with no immigrants, places with many immigrants, the only commonality is it is illegal everywhere and it continues to happen everywhere. My mother was brought in as a "special judge" for a cockfight trial involving over 1000 defendants in Southern Indiana in the mid 70s, because all the judges in an 8 county ring around the county where the fight occurred had relatives being prosecuted for participation in the cockfight.
In many jurisdictions the authorities seem to be more interested in the gambling and drug arrests they can make at a cock fight than prosecuting the arrests they make for cruelty to animals statutes. In some places cock fights can draw as many as 2 or 3 thousand people for 2 or 3 days, there is a lot more that goes down than just people watching the cock fight.
Carol
Cock fights happen all over the country, rural places, urban places, places with no immigrants, places with many immigrants, the only commonality is it is illegal everywhere and it continues to happen everywhere. My mother was brought in as a "special judge" for a cockfight trial involving over 1000 defendants in Southern Indiana in the mid 70s, because all the judges in an 8 county ring around the county where the fight occurred had relatives being prosecuted for participation in the cockfight.
In many jurisdictions the authorities seem to be more interested in the gambling and drug arrests they can make at a cock fight than prosecuting the arrests they make for cruelty to animals statutes. In some places cock fights can draw as many as 2 or 3 thousand people for 2 or 3 days, there is a lot more that goes down than just people watching the cock fight.
Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb