Karma at it's finest!
Jan 24, 2020 18:50:55 #
New Delhi (CNN) — An Indian man has died after a tussle with his rooster -- on their way to a cockfight.
Saripalli Chanavenkateshwaram Rao, 50, was hit in the neck with a blade tied to the rooster's claw on January 15. A police spokesman told CNN the father of three was taken to hospital, where he later died from a stroke.
Rao, who lived in Pragadavaram village in southern India's Andhra Pradesh state, was a regular at local cockfights, and was on his way to enter the rooster in a competition when it tried to break free, station house officer Kranti Kumar said.
Cockfighting has been illegal in India since 1960. However, animal fighting continues to be a problem in the country, according to Gauri Maulekhi, trustee for India's People for Animals foundation.
"The offenses have been made very clear and explained to the district and state authorities, but they choose to turn a blind eye towards it. It is not just for entertainment that these animals are made to fight, but it is (also) due to the heavy betting and gambling that goes on in the garb of these events," Maulekhi said.
Kumar said the local cockfight went ahead without any arrests.
A 2014 Supreme Court judgment clarified the illegality of animal fighting under India's Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act. In 2015, Maulekhi used that judgment to intervene in a state court petition to lift the ban on cockfighting -- and the ban was upheld.
"I don't think culture has anything to do with it -- it is purely a money game and hysteria takes over, reason and logic just take a back seat such that neither the animal's welfare nor the people's welfare is enough to stop it," Maulekhi said.
Saripalli Chanavenkateshwaram Rao, 50, was hit in the neck with a blade tied to the rooster's claw on January 15. A police spokesman told CNN the father of three was taken to hospital, where he later died from a stroke.
Rao, who lived in Pragadavaram village in southern India's Andhra Pradesh state, was a regular at local cockfights, and was on his way to enter the rooster in a competition when it tried to break free, station house officer Kranti Kumar said.
Cockfighting has been illegal in India since 1960. However, animal fighting continues to be a problem in the country, according to Gauri Maulekhi, trustee for India's People for Animals foundation.
"The offenses have been made very clear and explained to the district and state authorities, but they choose to turn a blind eye towards it. It is not just for entertainment that these animals are made to fight, but it is (also) due to the heavy betting and gambling that goes on in the garb of these events," Maulekhi said.
Kumar said the local cockfight went ahead without any arrests.
A 2014 Supreme Court judgment clarified the illegality of animal fighting under India's Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act. In 2015, Maulekhi used that judgment to intervene in a state court petition to lift the ban on cockfighting -- and the ban was upheld.
"I don't think culture has anything to do with it -- it is purely a money game and hysteria takes over, reason and logic just take a back seat such that neither the animal's welfare nor the people's welfare is enough to stop it," Maulekhi said.
Jan 24, 2020 19:29:44 #
Jan 24, 2020 19:34:02 #
bggamers
Loc: georgia
slatten49 wrote:
"What goes around, comes around." 
WOW the rooster won the round good for him
Jan 24, 2020 19:37:22 #
slatten49 wrote:
"What goes around, comes around."
Death by cock
Jan 24, 2020 19:45:20 #
Jan 24, 2020 20:05:46 #
Rose42 wrote:
I don’t think he deserved to die for cockfighting.
Deserved... No...
But you can't be angry at the cock....
Jan 24, 2020 20:13:42 #
Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
Deserved... No...
But you can't be angry at the cock....
But you can't be angry at the cock....
No but if one killed a family member of mine I’d kill it, its family and all its cousins. Lol
Jan 24, 2020 20:26:13 #
Rose42 wrote:
No but if one killed a family member of mine I’d kill it, its family and all its cousins. Lol
I'm just going to go ahead and admit that I might do that even without the revenge factor
Jan 24, 2020 20:46:08 #
Fodaoson
Loc: South Texas
teabag09 wrote:
New Delhi (CNN) — An Indian man has died after a t... (show quote)
[>A police spokesman told CNN the father of three was taken to hospital, where he later died from a stroke. quote]
He died from a stroke not the rooster cuts
Jan 24, 2020 20:51:39 #
Jan 24, 2020 20:56:40 #
no propaganda please
Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun
teabag09 wrote:
No way I can make a comment, LOL. Mike
It really is a cock and bull story anyhow.
Jan 24, 2020 21:10:10 #
Fodaoson wrote:
[>A police spokesman told CNN the father of three was taken to hospital, where he later died from a stroke. quote]
He died from a stroke not the rooster cuts
He died from a stroke not the rooster cuts
A stroke from a stroke?
Jan 25, 2020 13:05:49 #
Jan 25, 2020 13:06:38 #
Rose42 wrote:
I don’t think he deserved to die for cockfighting.
Neither do the roosters! Horrible entertainment!
Jan 25, 2020 13:07:35 #
Fodaoson wrote:
[>A police spokesman told CNN the father of three was taken to hospital, where he later died from a stroke. quote]
He died from a stroke not the rooster cuts
He died from a stroke not the rooster cuts
Stroked out cause he wasn’t going to make money!
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