Neighbor Debra Ross was so worried she called 911 and went outside where a nearby home had its windows blown out, was crawling with dozens of SWAT members in full gear, armored vehicles and a bomb robot.

“When the tank came in and pushed the wall over and you see what’s in there, and all it is, is a bunch of chickens,” Ross said.

In a massive show of force on Monday, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office executed a search warrant and arrested the homeowner, Jesus Llovera, on charges of suspected cockfighting.

Llovera was alone in the house at the time of the arrest, and he was unarmed….

Thousands of dollars in damages were made to the property and 115 birds were euthanized on the spot.

– KPHO.com.

Sometimes it’s really difficult to choose which part of an article to excerpt for this site. I don’t want to go overboard and just grab the whole thing, but every single sentence in it is amazing and hilarious and worth reading. Go read the full report and come back here, why don’t you.

Long story short: An Arizona sheriff used a tank to bust up an illegal cockfighting ring, and Steven Seagal was in the tank.

Then, while enforcing a law presumably created to protect animal welfare, the sheriff and his men killed 115 roosters in the dude’s cock stash. And you’re going to have a hard time convincing me that the guy who took a tank to an unarmed man’s house put those roosters down in some sort of humane fashion. In fact, you’re going to have a hard time convincing me he didn’t somehow use the tank to kill the birds.

Look: I get that forcing roosters to fight isn’t a very nice thing to do to roosters. But neither is massacring them, far as I can tell. Isn’t there some farm in the country to which Steven Seagal could dispatch all these liberated cocks?

Also, if you happen to know of an illegal cockfighting ring in the New York area and can get me in, shoot me an email. I’m not advocating cockfighting, but at the same time I won’t tell the cops or show up in a tank or anything. I just think a recap would make for a pretty interesting blog post.

Link via Deadspin.