# Police chief can't handle cock, bleeds to death **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 27, 2020, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-chief-cant-handle-cock-bleeds-to-death/924041 "2020-10-27T16:48:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-chief-cant-handle-cock-bleeds-to-death/924041/1 "2020-10-27T16:48:37Z")
This is one of the more unexpected Covid-related deaths. > **[Fighting Cock Kills Police Chief in Philippine Raid](https://www.courthousenews.com/fighting-cock-kills-police-chief-in-philippine-raid/?fbclid=IwAR0_AgmAniU0Ua7tQ8xNzphROb7dt6KC7--mnPF0OM5OqZcCbimQmH24G6A)** > > A Philippine police officer was killed during a raid on an illegal cockfight after a rooster's blade sliced his femoral artery, an official said Tuesday. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-chief-cant-handle-cock-bleeds-to-death/924041/2 "2020-10-27T16:54:04Z")
How is this Covid related? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-chief-cant-handle-cock-bleeds-to-death/924041/3 "2020-10-27T16:55:48Z")
The raid was because large gatherings were banned because of the pandemic. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-chief-cant-handle-cock-bleeds-to-death/924041/4 "2020-10-27T19:47:46Z")
You seem, from the thread title, to think this is funny? ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-chief-cant-handle-cock-bleeds-to-death/924041/5 "2020-10-27T19:59:22Z")
I assume very few people find death funny, but there’s nothing wrong with finding humor in mundane (both serious and trivial) stuff in life. Otherwise, it’s pretty much pointless to have a sense of humor at all. Sort of the same way only controversial speech needs defending. People need to stop being offended at everything, especially on behalf of others who don’t want or ask for it. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-chief-cant-handle-cock-bleeds-to-death/924041/6 "2020-10-27T20:10:53Z")
You mean that if it weren’t for the pandemic, cock fighting is OK in the Philippines? ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-chief-cant-handle-cock-bleeds-to-death/924041/7 "2020-10-27T20:23:36Z")
> [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](#): > > I assume very few people find death funny, but there’s nothing wrong with finding humor in mundane (both serious and trivial) stuff in life. Otherwise, it’s pretty much pointless to have a sense of humor at all. Sort of the same way only controversial speech needs defending. People need to stop being offended at everything, especially on behalf of others who don’t want or ask for it. Did the OP want or ask for your oddly vehement and vigorous defense? You have read a lot that wasn’t there into my question, which was a quite straightforward inquiry into the motivation of the OP for posting that item with that headline. It was for my information. Being “offended” didn’t enter into it. Moral: never assume. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-chief-cant-handle-cock-bleeds-to-death/924041/8 "2020-10-27T20:51:13Z")
From what I have seen on various sites cockfighting is legal in the Philippines. Although I am sure that like any other type of gambling it could have been an illegal game. Handling cocks is a touchy business. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-chief-cant-handle-cock-bleeds-to-death/924041/9 "2020-10-27T21:12:32Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > Handling cocks is a touchy business. I saw what you did there. I can’t unsee it. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-chief-cant-handle-cock-bleeds-to-death/924041/10 "2020-10-27T21:25:33Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > From what I have seen on various sites cockfighting is legal in the Philippines. Although I am sure that like any other type of gambling it could have been an illegal game. Handling cocks is a touchy business. - If the police catch the one in the story, it’s going _down_! ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-chief-cant-handle-cock-bleeds-to-death/924041/11 "2020-10-27T21:52:40Z")
The chief may have been too gentle with it and it got away from him. Or he could have been too rough and turned it mean. It takes a bit of experience to handle one properly. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-chief-cant-handle-cock-bleeds-to-death/924041/12 "2020-10-27T22:02:46Z")
About a year ago i visited Hawaii, which is overrun with wild chickens. While there, we saw a cock fight. It wasn’t something arranged by people, it was just two wild roosters who decided to fight while we happened to be nearby. I now understand the appeal of cock fighting. They are gorgeous beasts who fight with flair and enthusiasm. Being a pair of wild animals, they weren’t equipped with blades on their spurs, and after one won, the other just slunk away. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-chief-cant-handle-cock-bleeds-to-death/924041/13 "2020-10-27T22:11:17Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > I now understand the appeal of cock fighting. They are gorgeous beasts who fight with flair and enthusiasm. Terrible dancers, though. [https://imgur.com/a/gNTUvs0](https://imgur.com/a/gNTUvs0) ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-chief-cant-handle-cock-bleeds-to-death/924041/14 "2020-10-27T22:42:37Z")
The book, _Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat_ made an interesting point about cockfighting, in that a lot of fighting roosters live a relatively good life for three or more years, while their table-bound cousins live in filth and misery for months. Makes you think. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-chief-cant-handle-cock-bleeds-to-death/924041/15 "2020-10-27T23:30:27Z")
From what little I know about this, and also dog fighting, a lot of the “appeal” is not the animals tearing each other apart, as that people gamble on the results. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-chief-cant-handle-cock-bleeds-to-death/924041/16 "2020-10-27T23:40:23Z")
The fight itself has to be at least part of the appeal, because otherwise, why not just bet on dice or cards? ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-chief-cant-handle-cock-bleeds-to-death/924041/17 "2020-10-28T00:06:09Z")
Dang, to have your last moments be the realization that you’ve been taken down by a gamecock… that’s rough. > [@puzzlegal](#): > > I now understand the appeal of cock fighting. They are gorgeous beasts who fight with flair and enthusiasm. > > Being a pair of wild animals, they weren’t equipped with blades on their spurs, and after one won, the other just slunk away. Yeah they do put on a great display, and if only it were allowed to go on that way… But of course, when there’s money on the line, well, then you have to make it so that there will be no retreat and the fight will be to the death. ☹ BTW… Back in late 2018 a bill was dying in committee in Congress that would effectively extend the federal ban on cockfighting activities involving interstate commerce, to any happening in a jurisdiction where there was not already a state law against it – meaning the Unincorporated Territories. Much bitching and yelling came out of the Territories and at least they got the committee to sit on it just so they’d shut up, not a huge priority of the Chair. But then when the House was passing the last big Ag Bill, at near the last moment an amendment was tacked on by the bill’s author, with the language. Passed like 360 to 51 or something like that and off to Senate. People, you should have seen/heard it, the reaction back home in PR (where it is legal and has been strictly government-regulated since the 1930s)… the intensity, the fieryness, the passion that nobody back home had been arsed to whip up over statehood, disenfranchisement, Trump throwing paper towels, trade discrimination, recovery funding delays, whatever… it came up about the “injustice” of that. The delegations! The speeches! The lobbying missions! The letters! The resolutions! Goodness gracious if the local powers that be had ever been so united in fervor about something really important we’d be a state or would have had the debt forgiven by now. Of course the Senate passed it. The nonvoting delegates of the territories were going like… “Nu, under the bus again, what else is new…” but people back home were pissed. The wailing and gnashing of teeth is going on to this very day down in San Juan. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-chief-cant-handle-cock-bleeds-to-death/924041/18 "2020-10-28T02:34:18Z")
No one pulled off their belt and made a tourniquet? I know you can bleed out really fast. A tourniquet gives him the best chance of survival. ---
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-chief-cant-handle-cock-bleeds-to-death/924041/19 "2020-10-28T15:08:23Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > A tourniquet gives him the best chance of survival. A tourniquet on a neck wound? Strangle him already. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-chief-cant-handle-cock-bleeds-to-death/924041/20 "2020-10-28T15:36:15Z")
Femoral artery. He probably got slashed in the groin. But nobody tried to help? ~VOW [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-chief-cant-handle-cock-bleeds-to-death/924041.md?page=2)