{"id":12108,"date":"2015-12-21T18:38:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T18:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12108"},"modified":"2015-12-21T18:38:47","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T18:38:47","slug":"throw-the-book-at-cockfighting-nimrods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12108","title":{"rendered":"Throw the book at cockfighting nimrods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/COCK_FIGHT.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12109\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12109\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/COCK_FIGHT-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"COCK_FIGHT\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/COCK_FIGHT-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/COCK_FIGHT-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/COCK_FIGHT-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have no idea if pitting animals against each other in fights to the death is at epidemic levels in Amarillo, but whenever I see reports of it, I go into fits of serious anger.<\/p>\n<p>Amarillo police officers over the weekend raided a barn in the southeast part of the city. A group of hooligans ran from the site; the cops rounded up about 20 of them and booked a dozen of them into the Randall County jail on a misdemeanor charge of being spectators at this hideous event.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"notranslate\">The police rounded up the birds and took them to the city&#8217;s Animal Management and Welfare office. Who knows now what&#8217;ll happen to the birds? <\/span><span class=\"notranslate\">If they&#8217;re euthanized, I&#8217;m quite sure they&#8217;ll leave this world in a far gentler fashion than what the idiots who pitted them against each other had in mind. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"notranslate\">As the police said in a statement, &#8220;There is some indication that participants were charged to watch the fights.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"notranslate\">So, idiots charge others to watch this activity and even bigger idiots actually pay to see it happen. I guess, too, that they place wagers on which bird will still be strutting at the end of the fight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"notranslate\">You know, we think we live in a clean community. Most of it is. However, we do have this seedy side of life that exists out there. I&#8217;ve never been na\u00efve to believe we don&#8217;t have such activity happening right under our gaze.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"notranslate\">Still, hearing about it makes my blood boil.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea if pitting animals against each other in fights to the death is at epidemic levels in Amarillo, but whenever I see reports of it, I go into fits of serious anger. Amarillo police officers over the weekend raided a barn in the southeast part of the city. A group of hooligans &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12108\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Throw the book at cockfighting nimrods<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[325,5788,3831],"class_list":["post-12108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-amarillo-police-department","tag-cockfighting","tag-randall-county-jail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12110,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12108\/revisions\/12110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}