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Updated: 9:23 AM Jun 13, 2009
Secret video shows cockfighting revival
... Investigators for the Humane Society of the United States each paid a $20 admission fee to the event. Posted: 8:58 AM Jun 13, 2009 |
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JEFFERSONVILLE, KY — Four years after police raided and shut down a Montgomery County cockfighting operation, the arena is back in business and under new ownershipj, reports The Lexington Herald-Leader in its Saturday edition.
What was once called Spring Brook Farm is now the Bayou Springs Club near Jeffersonville, about 7 miles southeast of Mount Sterling. In late May, the 700-seat arena hosted what a schedule of events billed as the "World Championship."
Investigators for the Humane Society of the United States each paid a $20 admission fee to the event. Once inside, they secretly recorded video of specially bred roosters fighting each other inside rings while dozens of spectators watched.
Cockfighting is illegal in all 50 states and is a felony offense in 39. Animal rights activists contend that Kentucky's second-degree animal-cruelty law makes cockfighting a misdemeanor punishable by up to 12 months in jail and $500 fine, but some have interpreted it differently.
In cockfights, the roosters sometimes fight with sharp knives or with spurs that look like curved ice picks, called gaffs, fastened to their legs; the weapons are used to scratch, cut, maim and kill their opponents.
The Humane Society is gathering information to seek legislation that would make cockfighting a felony offense in Kentucky, reports The Lexington Herald-Leader.
Copyright - The Lexington Herald-Leader
www.kentucky.com
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want to put us down start with george washington and ben franklin got an original sceth of them fighting them start there first you eat chicken keep your mouth shut
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I AM A COCKFIGHTER ITS HALL I PAY MAY BILS WAY DONT PIPLE LEV US ALON WEE DONT BOTHER INEONE
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I would like to thank all our politicians who sided with the special interest animal rights groups,received contributions and voted against the constitutional bill of rights, giving animals the right over the very people who elected you, maybe you can get them to vote for you next time you face re-election!! Our economy has almost been ruined, our jobs lost to special interests overseas, war in several areas of the world, banking, industry and stock market making future retirement impossible for most Americans, meanwhile our politicians "underestimated how bad the economy was" maybe it's time to ask people on the street how all this lawmaking effects them and not take for granted that a special interest has determined for all Americans that animals having priority over human beings deserves law making that basically comes down to Urban vs. Rural America!!!
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