What a load of horseshit

[kierthos]

Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Steven Seagal go after suspected cockfighter (that just sounds wrong), with a tank.

So picture, if you will, crazy-ass Sheriff Joe and Steven Seagal, apparently filming stuff for his "Lawman" TV show, just tooling down the street in A TANK, to arrest a guy who apparently wasn't armed at all, for cockfighting.

Not running drugs, or arms, or being a violent sociopathic butcher of orphans and nuns.... but for, admitting, the rather cruel sport of cockfighting.

So they need the tank. They have to have it. It apparently gives them the necessary bravado to go after this dangerous criminal.

So they arrest this man, this wanton scofflaw, for being involved in a sport that abuses chickens in horrific death-matches with other chickens.

What do they do to the poor innocent birds that this fiendish mastermind had there, when they rammed through the wall with a tank? Why of course, they rescued them, and those chickens are getting the tender loving care and psychological counseling that they need.

HA HA, no. They euthanized them.

TO SAVE THE CHICKENS, THEY HAD TO KILL THE CHICKENS.

Comments

[thedeadcat]

Couldn't they have just beheaded and EATEN the chickens?

Man, what a fucking waste.

[kierthos]

For all I know, that's what they did do. The article doesn't say how they were euthanized.

[cyprinella]

I've heard that's what often happens with dogs seized from dogfighting investigations after the trials. The local organizations are either barred from adopting them out for breed specific legislation reasons or they just put them all (puppies and adults) down as being too risky to adopt out, even though they may not have done temperament tests.

[kierthos]

It's just the irony of it all. "We found this man running a cockfighting ring, and to stop him from hurting more chickens we killed all the chickens he had."

Although, if any of the birds were in decent shape, I wouldn't be surprised if Arpaio had them barbecued.

[cyprinella]

I imagine they'd be pretty tough birds. I was under the impression that that wouldn't make for good eating, but bbq can do amazing things.