Posted on 09/05/2014 10:32:31 AM PDT by MNDude
Many of us have heard of the mischievous act of sneaking up to sleeping cows in the middle of night and then shoving them over.
When people talk about cow-tipping, I've usually heard of it as "matter of fact." (I know Minnesota is sometimes called a "cow-tipping state")
I have grown up in the state of Minnesota all my life. In fact, most of my life, I've grown up in the farming communities where there plenty of cows.
Yet, I have never seen actual cow tipping before, nor have ever known anyone that's admitted to doing this.
Is this a real thing or an urban legend? Perhaps some of the older people here that have grown up on farms can shed some light on this.
It’s a lot like “snipe hunting”.
It’s real. And it’s spectacular!
I’m from Wisconsin. It is real.
I believe my brother tried to tip a cow once. It didn’t budge. Then he grabbed it’s tail, and the cow started running in circles with my brother hanging on. The other cows just watched with amusement.
In North Jersey we just tipped over mailboxes.
My friend tried this with a bunch of his college mates, very drunk very dark and the cow did not tip over. It was a bull and it did not find this amusing.....
Cow-tipping myth hasn’t got a leg to stand on
http://web.archive.org/web/20110629083548/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article586737.ece
Margo Lillie, a doctor of zoology at the University of British Columbia, and her student Tracy Boechler have conducted a study on the physics of cow-tipping.
Ms Boechler, now a trainee forensics analyst for the Royal Canadian Mounted Corps, concluded in her initial report that a cow standing with its legs straight would require five people to exert the required force to bowl it over.
I am from sw kansas where cows are so plentiful that they out number humans 100 to one, and its real.
I think 15% is a good tip... especially for a cow.
This would make a great MythBusters episode.
I’ve seen it done. Usually takes a pretty big or strong guy to do it though, or two average sized guys.
It’s real, and farmers don’t take kindly to it because you can injure the cows.
The guy up the road keeps about 25 head of beef cattle; more or less a hobby. They get out and wander the road. There’s so little traffic it’s not a huge problem. What I’ve learned, however, is its best not to bother cows never mind bulls. They somehow know they are 7 or 8 times my weight and they regularly fight with each other. Bothering them needlessly will not lead to fun, at least no fun for me.
I thought it had been ‘debunked’ in one of the Big Bang Theory episode.
Graduate of a rural Wisconsin High School, here. You are seriously overestimating the difficulty of finding five strapping young men willing to push over livestock for a laugh.
Yes, it is real and it will cause a dairy cow to produce less milk for a period of time.
It is a serious problem in dairy areas and is the bane of dairy famers in Wisconsin, particularly around Madison.
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