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Chickens and Foxes

Posted on | January 27, 2005 | 6 Comments

Okay, I’m slow, but I loaded Firefox at work. Holy shit – it rocks!
Now to the news:

Senator wants boxing gloves on chickens

emoving the blood from the sport takes away the main argument animal rights groups have against cockfighting, Shurden said.

“Let the roosters do what they love to do without getting injured,” Shurden said.

In his search for a new way to let gamecocks fight, Shurden learned about a California man who is an attorney for Gamecock Boxing Inc., which was formed to promote a nonlethal form of cockfighting.

“The company has a patent now pending on this game and the equipment designed to score the ‘hits’ of these sparring live gamefowl,” Californian John R. Cogorno wrote in a letter to Shurden.

Shurden said electronic sensors can record the number of hits by each gamefowl to determine which rooster won the boxing match.

Gamecocks would wear sparring muffs, which are padded gloves placed over their natural spurs.

“To me it answers everything. It saves the industry, takes blood sport out and generates revenue for Oklahoma,” Shurden said.

Janet Halliburton, an attorney who led the initiative petition drive to ban cockfighting, said, “What this is going to do is make a platform for him to continually try to amend the existing ban. They don’t want electronic cockfighting any more than anybody else does, or they’d be doing it.”

Shurden said he’s not trying to amend the existing cockfighting ban, something he tried the past few years without success.

Shurden’s legislation would create the Oklahoma Pari-mutuel Gamecock Boxing Act.

The Oklahoma Horse Racing Commission, which has jurisdiction over pari-mutuel horse racing, would have jurisdiction over this gamecock boxing.

Shurden believes it could be incorporated into horse racing, providing the boxing between horse races.

Some of the money earned from wagers on gamecock boxing matches would go to the state.

“I guarantee it would work,” Shurden said of the nonlethal fighting of roosters.
From Salon

***My 2 Cents***
I think that boxing is barbaric, but hey, if you want to beat the shit out of someone else for money then go for it. But, this is sick. What I would like to see is our dear senator in the ring with a pissed off stranger, fighting until only one of them is standing. (I wouldn’t really want to see that. I would probably get ill) I don’t care how to shake this – this is animal cruelty. We are not living in the time of the Romans, to watch beautiful creatures defile themselves for sport. And while the birds may be wearing gloves, we all know that it just softens the blow – the damage remains.

**having nothing to do with anything**
My IT person just told me that I can’t plug in my repaired computer because it’s “his job.” I loathe these condescending fucks sometimes.

Category: Everyday

Comments

6 Responses to “Chickens and Foxes”

  1. Erica the Meow
    January 28th, 2005 @ 11:31 pm

    I understand. I would get the t-shirt too!

  2. Joel
    January 28th, 2005 @ 11:06 pm

    Firefox rules. I’ve used Mozilla Suite for a while. After Firefox came out, I bought a Firefox t-shirt.

    (So I’m a geek, sue me.)

  3. Erica the Meow
    January 27th, 2005 @ 5:46 pm

    As if you needed another reason!

  4. Julie
    January 27th, 2005 @ 3:15 pm

    Now I have another reason to never go to Oklahoma.

  5. Nick
    January 27th, 2005 @ 12:15 pm

    Or maybe their offspring & mistresses..

  6. David M
    January 27th, 2005 @ 11:53 am

    I think we should be allowed to beat the shit out of our elected officials at least once a year. Man it would take me at least three months to get through all the assholes I’d like to kick some sense into. :)

    Just kidding. I’m really not the violent type. Maybe just a tomato throwing booth, with the politicians in stocks.

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