Western Hills High School Baseball Players Allegedly Sacrificed Chickens

BENBROOK, Texas — Police in the Dallas area are investigating whether two high school baseball players sacrificed chickens in a bid to improve their games.

Police in Benbrook, Texas, say a 15- and 16-year-old "engaged in acts that caused the death of two baby chickens. It appears that superstition relating to a slump in baseball performance could have played a part."

Western Hills High School baseball coach Bobby McIntire says he has not had a chance to talk to the students about why they did it. He told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that "baseball is very superstitious" and the idea possibly came from movies they say.

School officials say the boys have been kicked off the team.

Comments

[AllowMeToObserve]

01:21 AM on 04/03/2011

So, these two moronz pulled a Pedro Cerrano and believed it would work?! It was a movie, you dippy gomers! I'm sorry for those little chickens. Jobu says it is very bad. VERY bad.

[kareemachan]

01:26 PM on 04/03/2011

Beware Jobu! ;-)

[blurredmolly]

04:38 PM on 04/02/2011

Did it work?

[MikeDu]

03:49 PM on 04/02/2011

Hasn't Texas seceded yet, like it promised to do? I'm still waiting.

[hauruck]

04:41 PM on 04/02/2011

We should encourage them.

[AllowMeToObserve]

01:21 AM on 04/03/2011

I'll contribute some $$$.

[dwadel]

03:07 PM on 04/02/2011

Pedro Cerrano of Cleveland Indians was unavailable for comment.

[Gerald Ward]

12:31 PM on 04/02/2011

I eat chicken for dinner and lunch.

[thinkingwomanmillstone]

10:52 AM on 04/02/2011

So if you kill animals for fun in the sport of hunting, that's okay. You don't even get arrested if you are terrible at it and the animal suffers greatly. If you eat chicken at a sporting event, that's also okay. But, if you kill a chicken to improve your performance at sport, that's not okay. It seems the judeo/christian lawmakers can't handle the hint of voodoo. I guess the kids should have lit a candle...that would have done as much good as the chickens, but it would have kept them out of the hypocrites' courts.

[mlaiuppa]

01:41 PM on 04/02/2011

If torture or cruelty were involved then yes, there is a difference.

Many hunters are trained to be humane in their hunting. I doubt these little punks were as kind to their prey.

[thinkingwomanmillstone]

02:13 PM on 04/02/2011

there was nothing in the story that says they tortured the animals. I do not presume facts that are not in the story. There is no qualification, except for firearm safety and a license, for hunting...some hunters are good, some are not. I see the quality of work most people put out in their jobs, there is nothing that indicates they are any more careful in their recreational pursuits. I am not against hunting (although I do not believe the myth that most hunters do it for the outdoors experience rather than the killing ). If so they would be hunting with paintball guns. I am a meat eater raised around farms and know what the nature of raising and killing food animals is. I am against the idea that it's okay to kill an animal for one kind of enjoyment or religious ritual and decry it for another. The hypocrisy is clear cut.

[Kenny Torrella]

01:09 AM on 04/02/2011

Probably not nearly as bad animals' lives on today's factory farms - meatvideo.com

[hazbro24]

11:58 AM on 04/01/2011

Send in Seagall and Arpaio. Full swat and tanks.

[Byron Landon]

10:32 AM on 04/01/2011

man i just cut up a chicken last night... ate it too... cuff me...

[Birdman372537]

09:35 AM on 04/01/2011

I doubt what they did is one tenth as bad as what happens at CAFOs every day and you hardly ever hear about it. Many Americans have a knack for turning a blind eye to animal suffering.

[Clevelandinwi]

06:58 AM on 04/01/2011

More products of that wonderful texas school system?

[mlaiuppa]

01:42 PM on 04/02/2011

I wonder where the fundies found that reference to chicken sacrifice for a good ballgame in the bible.

[Jazmo]

06:58 AM on 04/01/2011

If you are that worried about how you play maybe you should be at batting practice instead of raiding a chicken coop.

[lodger16x]

05:57 AM on 04/01/2011

Sacrifice Fly, Beeches!

[Howard53545]

05:37 AM on 04/01/2011

What kind of voodoo mess is this? If you are a bad players chickens are not going to help you.

[Deluded]

05:32 AM on 04/01/2011

Well if it works! Why not?

[AllowMeToObserve]

01:22 AM on 04/03/2011

So, you think it would work? Good to know.

[Deluded]

02:22 AM on 04/03/2011

Well it has as much chance of working as prayers to our invisible friend!