Clay County is totally full of cockfighting. I can drive to two rings right now within 10-15 minutes of my house. There are hundreds and hundreds of fighting birds in the yards of houses in our county. I have students who take off of school to fight their birds. They wear cock-fighting t-shirts to school. One of my ballplayer’s dads spent 10 minutes the other day trying to talk our coach into coming to the fight that weekend.

While the whole thing is cruel, the idea that police would spend time and resources on this situation is very frustrating. We have real problems with real people and real violence, etc. Call me a libertarian on this one.