Let’s hear it for the rooster. A California man has died after being stabbed in the leg by a sharp blade attached to a fighting cock.
The New York Post reports the poetic justice:
Jose Luis Ochoa, 35, was taken to a local hospital shortly after police responded to a reported cockfight last Sunday in Lamont, Calif., a town nine miles south-southeast of Bakersfield.
An autopsy revealed Wednesday that Ochoa’s death was accidental and caused by an injury to his right calf.
“I have never seen this type of incident,” Sgt. Martin King, a 24-year veteran, told the paper. But he noted that it was not surprising that Ochoa died since one of his major arteries had likely been severed. “People have been known to bleed out from those injuries if medical attention is not obtained immediately.”
You’re among friends. Admit it. Don’t you kind of enjoy stories like this? Doesn’t it give you a certain sense of satisfaction hearing that someone who would pay to see such a barbaric sport ends up the victim of that sport? And along a similar vein, don’t you always hope the bull wins the bull fight?
We thought so.
Source: New York Post
