Rooster Strikes Back

It's usually the roosters who are injured and killed, but a fighting rooster in California killed a man who was part of an illegal cockfighting ring.

A 35-year-old Lamont man died Sunday after being stabbed in the leg by a sharp blade that was attached to a fighting bird, ... "I have never seen this type of incident," said Sgt. Martin King, a 24-year veteran who noted the major arteries that could have been severed. "People have been known to bleed out from those injuries if medical attention is not obtained immediately."

According to the article, another man was killed by a rooster last month in India.