Busting a guy suspected of cockfighting, bring tank

[GrimTuesday]

This is kind of hypocritical... as he kills HUNDREDS (if true) of chickens himself in one go during his process of stopping chickens from killing each other... in short: animal cruelty taken to the extreme level?

But otherwise this is just pointless...

The tank didn't roll over the chickens. They brought in the tank over the matter of chickens. No chickens were squashed in the process of arresting a cock fighter. The only thing squashed was the fence.

It's entirely possible that some chickens were squished, it's not as if the tank just drove on the fence and stopped. Also, all the chickens have been euthanized.

 

[DragonsAteMyMarbles]

Well, it is one way to get the guy's attention. Can't be too careful with chickens.

That's a poultry display of fire power. I hope there wasn't anyone egging him on in this fowl attack on his liberties. He might have deserved a bit of bird but this seems really chicky. I hope this plucky farmer was able to egg-stricate himself.

...
AAAAAAAAARGH

 

[DTWolfwood]

Yes friends, we in America have done it again we've topped ourselves on unnecessary force. On the 21st, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio raided a mans house under suspicion of raising chickens for cockfighting, Of course considering how dangerous those mean roosters are it seemed only prudent to bring in some armor

This is the armor they brought

Basically these guys rolled in in a fucking self propelled howitzer and destroyed the fence, all over one guy and a bit over a hundred chickens.

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/03/23/134803230/arizona-sheriff-uses-a-tank-to-arrest-cockfighting-suspect

Yay America, aren't we fucking awesome.

Edit: Oh and I forgot to mention Steven Seagal was in the tank filming for his new reality show.

its gonna show up on LAWMAN? sweet! XD
hey at least they didn't use the gun hehe

 

[jonyboy13]

I live in Israel and we just had a terrorist attack yesterday yet I still rather live here.
Good job America, good job.

 

[Squeaky]

That's a poultry display of fire power. I hope there wasn't anyone egging him on in this fowl attack on his liberties. He might have deserved a bit of bird but this seems really chicky. I hope this plucky farmer was able to egg-stricate himself.

I hope you feel good about your self.

thanks for that

nice tank but how the hell do they let the police force have a fucking howizter.

 

[similar.squirrel]

Look, there were over a hundred roosters on the premises. Roosters that had been trained to kill. What would you have done?

 

[ZombieGenesis]

Clearly, he did it for the Luls.

 

[Soxafloppin]

Where the chickens Muslim or something? Kind of over reacting.

 

[Venereus]

Am I alone in thinking this is awesome?

I love how they have War on Drugs in big letters and underlined on the tank. We take that war seriously in America. Even when it doesn't involve drugs.

The War on Drugs is a ruse. Everybody knows that!

 

[Leg End]

It seems chickens lay drugs now. :/

 

[Candrian]

So...what's the actual problem here? A cop rolls up in a tank to take down a petty crim. Might be overkill but theres no harm in that, especially when its legal for nearly anyone to own a frigging machine gun.

And as Mr Hexenwolf said, the use of the tank is probably more to do with Segal filming than the cock fighter. If they wanted to film the tank in action it could take years for a situation that actually calls for it to crop up.

 

[Fraeir]

There it is, America - You've become a version of what you hated, by fighting petty crimes with excessive firepower.

The Soviet Union.

Congratulations on your achievement.
(Ignore the fact my avatar is a Kirov)

 

[Pointer]

/facepalm

When people think of America they think of this. While its kind of cool, its neither very smart nor very economical. The last time I checked we are just barely starting to recover from a recession, and we are trying to slash state budgets to avoid bleeding even more into our deficit. If this is the reason why then I swear to god I am starting a revolution. Seriously, the only purpose of this is to waste taxpayer dollars. If the tank is ever used in the war on drugs this will be reason enough but Jesus Christ its a tank! And Steven Seagal! Who was stupid enough to say that this was ok?

 

[Pointer]

Am I alone in thinking this is awesome?

I love how they have War on Drugs in big letters and underlined on the tank. We take that war seriously in America. Even when it doesn't involve drugs.

The War on Drugs is a ruse. Everybody knows that!

This shit is very much real in Mexico. People die every day on the borders, and the Mexican military has to deal constantly with bombings, kidnappings, and open assault. Its at the point where the police need to have tanks in Mexico in order to crack down on the Cartels. That's not even scratching the surface on corruption either. Its one of the reasons that I did not support the legalization of marijuana in California.

 

[Dags90]

Why are cockfights not treated with the same gravitas as dogfights.

Where's the internet rage, people?

 

[fix-the-spade]

Yay America, aren't we fucking awesome.

Are you kidding, that IS fucking awesome. MEGA FUCKING AWESOME.

I would take up Fighting Chicken breeding right now if it meant that Steven Seagal would come in a mother effing TANK to arrest me. How badass a story is that to tell your grandkids.

"When the cops came for me, they needed a tank AND Steven Seagal, don't mess,"

 

[Macgyvercas]

That's a poultry display of fire power. I hope there wasn't anyone egging him on in this fowl attack on his liberties. He might have deserved a bit of bird but this seems really chicky. I hope this plucky farmer was able to egg-stricate himself.

Dude, those puns are so lame it's awesome.

 

[fix-the-spade]

Why are cockfights not treated with the same gravitas as dogfights.

Dogs don't make a good sunday roast.

Also, it's less widespread and Dogs are an easy PR score for shock stories.