Sentences with phrase «while cockfighting»

While cockfighting has been a felony offense in Texas, major loopholes in the law allowed the activity to flourish, and made Texas a magnet for criminal cockfighters who come from neighboring states where the penalties were more severe.

Not exact matches

There's less of the second quality in this movie, but one has to wonder about the movie's disregard for life — both animal (When his cockfighting roosters get loose, he shoots one and smothers another with a pillow) and human (Alan listens to music while his father has a heart attack and seems almost happy to have witnessed Marshall shooting one of his associates).

Without money to feed her son, Ali teaches him to «dine and dash,» while her no - good boyfriend (Callum Turner, utterly convincing) teaches him cockfighting, further relying on the kid to sell drugs to the shady characters who show up to watch the illegal activity.

Cockfighting involves two roosters wearing blades on their feet and fighting to the death while human spectators place bets on the outcome.

the woman bear huge, beautifully arranged, pyramids of food, fruits and flowers on their heads while the man give a blood sacrifice in the form of cockfighting.

This is a sport which was once referred to by U.S. Senator John McCain as «human cockfighting»; while he later softened that stance it was only after some years and a concerted effort on the part of the sport to round off its harder edges.