Texas is, after all, the home of the Branch Davidian cult, so perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that kids there are sacrificing chickens to improve their batting average. (OK, that analogy didn’t make a lot of sense even to me). Today we learn that Benbrook, TX police have formally charged two high school baseball players with animal cruelty, following reports that they killed two baby chickens, apparently as a sacrifice to improve their playing skills.
And as a result of the publicity surrounding the story, PETA has scrambled its fighter jets and has descended on the Western Hills High campus, asking to establish an “animals rights club.”
The two players, from Western Hills High, were kicked off the team for the rest of the year and disciplined by the district, school officials said.
Western Hills is 7-15 overall and 3-2 in District 6-4A.
The Cougars have gone 2-1 since the incident, including Wednesday night’s 11-1 victory over Southwest High School.
Oh, Texas. As we recall from January, baby chickens and live fish were thrown during a pep rally at North Side High School in Dallas, in the same school district as Western Hills. Five students were disciplined in that incident.
But a districtwide initiative on animal cruelty isn’t necessary, say district offcials, because the two incidents were isolated and unrelated.
“As a district, we don’t condone this kind of behavior,” Bond said.
“That’s why these students have been disciplined, severely disciplined in the Western Hills case. Our school district is not rampant with animal abuse.”
Bond said the two cases are examples of how some youths may not fully understand what the consequences of their actions are.
“We all wish it would have been a bucket of fried chicken like it was in the movie Major League,” Bonds said.
In that movie, a baseball player wants to sacrifice a live chicken to end a hitting slump, but teammates brought him fried chicken instead.
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Western Hills baseball players charged in chicken decapitations [Fort Worth Star-Telegram]
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- lewp - Apr 1, 2011 at 4:07 PM
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Wow, what’s going on with Fort Worth – Dallas these days?
http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2011/04/teen-killed-in-fistfight-near.html
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