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Cock fighting...with gloves??
http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0127boxing-roosters27-ON.html
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http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0127boxing-roosters27-ON.html
[/font]Boxing gloves proposed for fighting roosters
Associated Press
Jan. 27, 2005 10:52 AM <!--______START TEXT OF STORY________-->
[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]OKLAHOMA CITY - With cockfighting now banned in Oklahoma, one legislator is proposing a blood-free alternative: fitting roosters with little boxing gloves and letting them slug it out.
"Who's going to object to chickens fighting like humans do? Everybody wins," said Democratic state Sen. Frank Shurden, a protector of the gamefowl industry and a longtime defender of cockfighting, in which birds are fitted with razor-like spurs and often battle to the death.
Oklahoma voters banned cockfighting in 2002. The practice is still legal in Louisiana and New Mexico.[/font]
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[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]"To me it answers everything. It saves the industry, takes blood sport out and generates revenue for Oklahoma," Shurden said.
Janet Halliburton, a lawyer who led the drive to ban cockfighting, dismissed Shurden's idea as the first step in a scheme to bring back the sport.
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