Unusual Gambles

A finch is small cute looking bird, it basically looks like a canary, it sings sweet songs and looks harmless. But what if I told you there was an underground ring, where these small birds are used as warriors in fight to the death matches, and that its big business on the underground scene? Read more.

You’d probably say that’s fucking strange and call me a sick fuck, and you’d be right.

Turns out that a fighting Finch, goes for about $1000 on the black market, you probably get a discount if you purchase a shotgun or some snuff flicks as part of a combo package, I don’t know how it works, but it’s the black market, so probably. These birds are trained, their beaks are sharpened and then they are let loose to cause ungodly mayhem to each other in a sick sport that is somehow gaining popularity.

It made me wonder, what unusual gambling activities do people engage in?
Cockfighting, to many North Americans this involves two Bay area divas, but in other parts of the world Cockfighting is with gamecocks and its big business. I’m not going to comment on how ethical it is, its illegal as fuck here and it should be.

And of course, all of us who watch the NFL know about dogfighting, someone should go undercover and get some real figures on just how big that is in North America, particularly in the south. Not only is it reprehensible, but I’m guessing its not worth well over a hundred million dollars and a the prime a quaterback’s NFL career. Just a guess.

There are some weird gambles, some of which are disturbing, others that while wrong, kinda make you laugh, like a father gambling his 18 year old daughter away in a poker game in India, that’s kinda funny. Playing tic-tac-toe against a chicken for 10K, that’s also pretty cool. Betting on a horse versus a man, that’s funny too. But cocks and finches, that’s kinda sick if you ask me. As far as animal fighting goes, it could be cool, if you caught it in the wild, and it happened naturally. I wonder what the odds would go on a Shark against a killer whale? Shit like that could sell.

Animal fighting and betting on the outcomes of animal fighting is just wrong to me. I can see how its tradition in some places, but I’ll never get it. Whatever happened to throwing some money down on a good boxing match or MMA or the ponies? Is it really all that exciting to watch Yeller go at it against Spot? Or to watch a song bird go toe to toe against a hummingbird? Sounds lame and gross. Catfights, now, I’ll make an exception for those. Especially if they are the big cats, the ones with double D breasts, long nails, perky tails, a little oil or mud… I’ll put some money down on those pussy cats. Yes sir.

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