Next time you’re off to bet on roosters killing each other, avoid the first floor. Cockfighting aficionados fled the scene as soon as police raided a ring in a house in Kandal’s Sa’ang district on Tuesday, but the five men and two women on the first floor didn’t have time to escape and were arrested on the spot.

Police seized 10 motorbikes and five cocks, but released the lucky seven after they promised to never do it again. DEUM AMPIL