California man killed by armed bird at cockfight

[harvey007]

Source: Miami Herald

DELANO, Calif. -- A California man attending a cockfight has died after being stabbed in the leg by a bird that had a knife attached to its own limb.
The Kern County coroner says 35-year-old Jose Luis Ochoa was declared dead at a hospital about two hours after he suffered the injury in neighboring Tulare County on Jan. 30.
An autopsy concluded Ochoa died of an accidental "sharp force injury" to his right calf.

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/02/07/2055516/california-man-killed-by-armed.html

[DisgustipatedinCA]

1. Darwin Award....before someone else says it n/t

.

[sakabatou]

2. +1

[BrklynLiberal]

7. Bingo!

[RKP5637]

8. +1, n/t

[burrowowl]

30. +1

Poetic justice!?

[hlthe2b]

3. I really can't muster the obligatory "sadness"

for someone who dies while attempting to profit from the pain and suffering of animals. Just can't....

[Posteritatis]

10. I can muster the obligatory contemptuous mockery just fine though! (nt)

[AndyTiedye]

18. Not Even the World's Smallest Violin Quartet?

:nopity::nopity::nopity::nopity:

[angstlessk]

4. He came to watch a cock die...and he died watching a cock...irony

is not lost in this circumstance...

[GoCubsGo]

5. Karma's a bitch.

[madmax]

13. +10

[customerserviceguy]

6. Reminds me of that video

of the bull charging up into the stands at the bullfight. I didn't think a chicken could do this, but hat's off to the 'cock of the walk'!

[LTR]

9. Fail

Somebody had to say it.

[Posteritatis]

11. Fail? Or win? (nt)

[tularetom]

12. I'm having a hard time working up any sympathy for the late Mr Ochoa

Even though I'm taking advantage to shamelessly post a link to my favorite song - "Gallo del Cielo" by Tom Russell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMJkMA7EW9E

[madmax]

14. Same here. n/t

[DavidDvorkin]

15. Serious question: I assume he bled to death

I know that can happen if the femoral artery is penetrated, but I didn't think it was likely from a stab wound in the lower leg.

[Capn Sunshine]

28. well its not like that artery ends at the knee

I imagine the inside the knee area was where he got it. It would be natural to turn away from an attacking bird, and that would expose the back ofthe knee.

[DavidDvorkin]

31. That makes sense.

[Jim Lane]

41. I wonder if they ever apply toxins to the blades.

One commenter on the linked article suggested that this might explain how a calf injury proved fatal.

If so, it would be a double dose of "Karma's a bitch."

[sofa king]

45. Or an anti-coagulant, maybe.

I hadn't thought of it until you mentioned it.

[somone]

16. 'unclear if a delay in seeking medical attention contributed to Ochoa's death'

well...

[Kennah]

17. The bird was heard to remark ...

... excuse me while I whip this out.

[Name removed]

19. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[Raine]

20. "Live by the sword (knife) die by the sword"

as an animal lover I just can't summon up a bit of sympathy.

[Kennah]

21. Sounds like a cock and blade story

[sofa king]

27. What does the cock get for winning?

[Kennah]

57. Whenever a cock stabs it ...

... it risks later having to pay for it.

[Fumesucker]

22. That's what you get for being cocky..

I guess it just shows that a cock with a prick can ruin your entire fucking day.

[lonestarnot]

23. Guess he won't be doing any more animal torture for sport.

[flvegan]

24. My sympathy goes out to his loved ones.

Regardless of my contempt for this "person" for partaking in such a cruel sport, he still likely left behind people who are grieving his loss.

[originalpckelly]

25. I've been involved in cockfighting.

It did involve birds, but I don't think any of us would have felt comfortable strapping knives to them. :P

[Initech]

26. This one ranks about a 9 out of 10 on my WTF-o-meter.

[KansasVoter]

29. I feel bad for him. I mean the chicken.

[bluestate10]

34. The chicken is likely going to get put down.

I feel for the guy's family, but he should not have been at such a brutal activity.

[petronius]

32. Cockfighting is only a misdemeanor here, but since a death occurred

as a result of criminal activity, I wonder if the organizers can be held liable for murder or some more serious charge...

[RB TexLa]

33. There is a danger in handling the birds for the fight, I've seen people cut but never anyone killed

by one.

[NuclearDem]

35. I wish I could be sad because of this

But I don't feel sympathy for people who force animals to fight to the death. It's disgusting.

[Ferret Annica]

36. There's a lesson about bringing a cock to a knife fight in here somewhere...

... if you think on it enough.

[elocs]

37. K&R

[shockra]

38. The Roosters are learning.

COPS suspecting FOWL play are hunting a cockfighting rooster on suspicion of slitting its owner's throat.

Indian police say the "dangerous rooster" is thought to have killed Singrai Soren after being forced back into the ring soon after his last fight.

The animal had emerged victorious, but witnesses said the victim died after the feathered fiend cut his throat with razor blades attached to its legs as he tried to immediately force it into another bout.

Villagers were warned not to approach the animal cops described as "an unknown rooster with black and red feathers".

Police want to find the bird to strip it of the deadly blades he killed with, but said with so many roosters matching his description the chances of catching him were slim.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3360068/Fowl-play-as-fight-cock-kills-owner.html

[yurbud]

39. killed by a knife weilding chicken. I hope he didn't pass on any of his genes

[Toon Me Out]

40. Found LOCAL NEWS VIDEO at Internet Archive>>

http://www.archive.org/details/cockikillilp

[Jim Lane]

42. Last month a fox shot a hunter. Is this a trend?

Here's the incident from January, as reported in in the Telegraph:

A wounded fox shot its would be killer in Belarus by pulling the trigger on the hunter's gun as the pair scuffled after the man tried to finish the animal off with the butt of the rifle....

The hunter, unlike Mr. Ochoa, survived. There's no information on the condition of the fox he wounded.

[24601]

43. Too bad he wasn't stabbed in the butt - the headline could have

read, "Cock in the Ass Kills Asshole, Film at 11!"

[Geoffrey_Lebowski]

44. The Stupid ...

It Burns!!!

[Nihil]

46. Good.

Let's hope that the bastard hadn't bred first.

[Le Taz Hot]

47. I wish people could reverse their thinking

and get it through their heads that cock-fighting/dog-fighting/anything fighting is immoral. I live in an are in which this behavior is accepted and it makes me sick.

[pipi_k]

49. What really gets me sick...

OK...Dog and bird fighting are illegal and kept in the shadows...shamed by larger society.

But bullfighting...

A damned national sport (in an unspecified country)!


I always cheer for the bull.



Oh, and while I'm on the subject, rodeos aren't all that much more civilized either. Not from what I've heard, anyway...is it true that the bull's testicles are tied up rather unpleasantly just to piss him off?

Disgusting.

I hate people who misuse animals for their own amusement and profit

[pipi_k]

48. Stupid people killed by their animal victims...

GO ANIMALS!!!!!

:fistbump:

[yodermon]

50. ok.. i hadn't clicked on this link for a day b/c I thought it was an Onion headline

wow

[liberation]

51. this is a very "ironic" way to go...

Still it sucks that a person had to die, no one deserves harm. However...

[SoCalDem]

52. Justice is served, and deadly n/t

[JBoy]

53. Freepers are saying the bird must have been a liberal.

[varkam]

54. What I love is how folks decry the viciousness of people that fight animals...

by gloating like blood-thirsty vampires before he's even in the ground yet. I understand that he assumed the risk, and that what he was doing was wrong, but even still...some of the comments on DU in response to stories like this tend to give me the creeps.

[Brickbat]

56. I hear you.

[toddwv]

55. Searching, searching, searching...

Unable to locate sympathy file.
Empathy aborted.

Attempting to avoid schadenfreude.
Attempt unsuccessful.

"A california man died today after being stabbed by a cock.