It would likely perhaps not be described as a practice that many of us agree with, but most individuals are familiar aided by the notion of cockfighting fighting roosters against each other so that you can gamble on the outcome. You probably also remember dog fighting being in the news (especially when it football that is involved Michael Vick). But rats getting used for gambling purposes? That’s new to us.

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Yet that’s exactly what authorities in Moscow found when they conducted a raid on an gambling that is illegal in the city. Police announced that during a raid of a bookmaker on Novy Arbat Street conducted month that is last they came across cages containing roosters, rats, and even insects all of which they believed had been utilized for gambling within the venue.

Police didn’t say which establishment the strange collection of animals came from, though they did report also recovering more equipment that is traditional including eight computers that contained information on illegal gambling tasks.

While there was no recognition of the venue targeted in the raid, conjecture in the media has fallen on an entertainment complex referred to as Korona. Earlier this year, The Moscow News ran a piece detailing those activities going on at Korona, which is situated on Novy Arba