Last week the prosecutor in Surry County, Va. said since he didn't have any eyewitnesses, he couldn't charge Michael Vick with dog fighting. Well, ESPN has a confidential source that said he's been involved in dog fighting for more than 30 years and has trained and fought over 2,000 pit bulls and he's poised to tell all about the time in 2000 when his dog squared off against a dog owned by someone he referred to as one of the "heavyweights" of the dog fighting world: Atlanta Falcon quarterback Michael Vick.
"He's a pit bull fighter," the source said of Vick. "He's one of the ones that they call 'the big boys': that's who bets a large dollar. And they have the money to bet large money. As I'm talking about large money -- $30,000 to $40,000 -- even higher. He's one of the heavyweights."
"I've fought dogs, I pitted them, I bred them and I've done everything with them," said the source of his three decades in dog fighting. He then went on to describe the scene from that night seven years ago, as he took his 42-pound dog into the pit (the area dogs fight in) to face off against Vick's dog. He says Vick did not get into the pit but had a member of his entourage handle his dog while Vick placed bets with the 20 or so people in attendance. "Then he started, you know, waving money," the source said. "He was betting with everybody … He said he got $5,000. He said he's betting on his animal."
Although the source said he doesn't know how much Vick bet that night, he does recall the matches' outcome: Vick's dog lost. He said Vick is known in the dog fighting community as "the man that comes with all the money" and his reputation is "[that] he brings a good dog and he's going to bet and he's going to bring a nice sum of cash."
(ESPN)
14 comments:
so this anonymous source has been fighting dogs, i.e. doing an illegal, inhumane activity, for 30 years?
why would a 30-year criminal confess like this about michael vick and not be worried about his own likelyhood of winding up jailed?
something's fishy.
^^^^
aint it always...vick snakes are in your grass! cut yuor grass homey!
First off, you can't believe everything that you read nor hear. Because if Vick had put down a lot of money and lost, then somebody is riding nicely. And that's the person who should be talking, because they have the evidence or bill of sale.
The evidence in this case is not word of mouth. It's the money. Follow the money and it will lead back to its owner. Just like dogs.
Let them roam and they will find their way home.
That man is so damn fine. It is a shame that he is also so damn stupid.
i agree
That man snitching for no reason...
He must want some money or be owed some money.
This story is shady. ESPN needs to sit down and let Surry County, Va. handle the prosection of Michael Vick. I don't agree with his actions in that house but if it can't be proved...it wasn't his time to get caught.
I SAW this clown talking on ESPN...
Like a Mafia Informat or something
WHAT IS HE SCARED OF !!!!!
I personally DON'T Beleive this person or ANYBODY who would choose this method to libel another person character... I just Don't trust it !!!!!
All those evil inhumane animal-torturers should go down hard. Put all their worthless, greedy asses in jail for life-- or better yet, the DEATH PENALTY! All the misery these ignorant asses have caused those poor animals,they can never serve enough time. Only DEATH will suffice! Any 1 of those dogs is worth more than Vic or any of his cronies put together! Fuck the lot of them! PETA-- are you listening?
I am so tired of these grown men fighting dogs. I used to work at a city shelter in college and I'd see dogs w/ eyeballs hanging out, bleeding to death. Anyone who does this is CRUEL and we don't need them in our society.
WHOS GONNA SNITCH ON VICK?
I HATE SNITCHES.
WHO THA FCK CARES U HAVE PEOPLE DYING IN THA USA AND YALL WORRIED BOUT DOGGS FIGHTIN THAS WHAS WRONG WITH THA WORLD PRIORITIES.
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To dumbass above: Just because "people dying in tha USA" doesn't mean that every other ill in the world is permissable.
I heard the interview with the one "witness" and they had him all blocked out!!! He needs to sit down and chill!!!
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