For All You Cock Fight Enthusiasts

[Amara]

Details 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.

http://www.cbs47.tv/news/local/story/Man-Killed-by-Rooster-at-Cockfight/9zFgK_0hNUeV1VEmu9bXxA.cspx?rss=153

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DAMZ

[Reporter]

How long was the knife on the rooster's leg?

I believe Louisiana is the only U.S. state that does not ban rooster fighting. But that doesn't mean roosters there aren't equally dangerous.