Beaks Sharpened, Finches Were Groomed to Fight: Report
Affidavit officers disturbing recipe to make songbirds fight
View Comments ()        Getty Images     This bird is sweet
until you sharpen its beak and pump it up with mystery
supplements, cops said.      The leaders of an alleged finch-
fighting ring apparently used some disturbing measures to
make sweet little birds go into brutal combat. They sharpened
their innocent little beaks and used mystery supplements,
according to an arrest affidavit unsealed Thursday.      Some of
the saffron finches seized when cops busted a bizarre bird
fighting ring had beaks sharpened to a point and at least one
had a sharp metal object attached, police said.      The arrest
affidavit unsealed Thursday offers more grim details spelling
out the recipe the suspects allegedly used to turn the song
birds into fighting machines -- superglue, antibiotics, skin and
blood supplements and a mini digital scale.      There were also
powders. Cops don’t know what they are, but they'r