QuoteDetails have been released on a bizarre death in Tulare County.
A 35-year-old man was killed while attending an illegal cockfight near Earlimart.
Investigators say Jose Luis Ochoa was cut by a razor attached to the rooster's leg.
Lieutenant Rick Ko with the Fresno County Sheriff's Department showed CBS47 some of the weapons used in cockfighting. They are tiny razors attached to the rooster's leg that they use like knives during the fight. "We've seen people cut with minor cuts when they put on the knives ... but nothing severe," said Ko.
Tulare sheriff's deputies showed up to investigate the illegal activity and people scattered. At that time, one of the birds apparently jumped at Ochoa and the knife on its leg cut a major artery in the man's calf. He died at a hospital in Delano.
Authorities believe this is the first time a human has died as a result of a cockfight.
Lieutenant Ko said, "It's still against the law to participate in cockfighting, to be a spectator at a cockfight, and raise animals particularly for fighting with paraphernalia."
The sheriff's department says there are often a lot of other crimes associated with cockfighting, such as drugs, illegal gambling, and animal cruelty.
Source: http://www.cbs47.tv/news/local/story/Man-Killed-by-Rooster-at-Cockfight/9zFgK_0hNUeV1VEmu9bXxA.cspx
Fitting. No sympathy here. :hatred:
Not too much sympathy here either :smile:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_NrOpl6h5Y
Cock-A kill-da-dude!
Don't mess with karma
Well that guy must have been cocky.
"Man killed by cock" would have been a much better headline.
:bluesad:
Quote from: Newt on February 08, 2011, 04:02:55 PM
Fitting. No sympathy here. :hatred:
Now I agree with you!! :hatred:
Well, I guess you could say it was a case *puts on sunglasses* of fowl play.
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!
Looks like the rooster really gave him the bird this time...