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Cow-Tipping, is it real?

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.


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To: MNDude

Cows sleep lying down.


41 posted on 09/05/2014 11:00:13 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: All

Oh, yeah - good luck getting through the electric fence.

Farmer I worked for had every single cow pasture secured with electric wire. You touch one of those ( and I have by accident ) and you will not forget it.


42 posted on 09/05/2014 11:00:31 AM PDT by warsaw44
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To: struggle

There is no “rutting” season when it comes to cattle.

MFO


43 posted on 09/05/2014 11:01:31 AM PDT by Man from Oz
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To: warsaw44
I worked on a dairy farm every summer during my teen years, grew up in a very rural area of Maine and never once did I hear of such thing. Never.

BTTT

I grew up in rural Ohio, worked on neighboring farms including a few dairy over the years. Never heard of cow tipping even as a joke until I went to college in "the big city".

44 posted on 09/05/2014 11:04:29 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer.)
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To: warsaw44
You touch one of those... and you will not forget it.

Saw a young feller straddle one last year about this time. Apparently blue jeans aren't much of an insulator... ;-)

45 posted on 09/05/2014 11:04:45 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: MNDude

As long as I get good service, I tip the young lady no matter how big or small she is.


46 posted on 09/05/2014 11:06:02 AM PDT by Mich Patriot (Pitch black is the new "transparent.")
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To: warsaw44

It was always fun to get the drunk city kids to pee on the electric fence.


48 posted on 09/05/2014 11:06:48 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer.)
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To: thackney

yup.

I’ll bet the guys that told you all about cow tipping insisted it was real. Damned fools had never even seen a cow in their life.


49 posted on 09/05/2014 11:07:49 AM PDT by warsaw44
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To: CMailBag

Go try it. =) That’s the only way to find out for sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAuXeX3lf5I

If it is real there would be all sorts of videos floating around.

Anyone who’s done it has had to do it to a real lame breed of cattle. =)

Then again the easiest way to tip a cow is to lasso it’s feet.


50 posted on 09/05/2014 11:07:54 AM PDT by the_boy_who_got_lost (Real men scare liberals)
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To: MNDude
Tipping the cow is what good farm boys do after losing there virginity
51 posted on 09/05/2014 11:09:23 AM PDT by tophat9000 (An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more)
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To: Man from Oz

>There is no “rutting” season when it comes to cattle.

I know, but you still understood what I meant.


52 posted on 09/05/2014 11:09:30 AM PDT by struggle
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To: longfellow

When I was young and VERY stupid, we were spotlighting deer. We had a sixpoint standing, looking into the light and I got out of the car, snuck around behind him and jumped on his back. My buddies were pissed because we were all drunk and had to take me to hospital for stitches in my thigh from his hooves, and stitches in my chest where he gored me. He was kinda startled.


53 posted on 09/05/2014 11:09:52 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: skinndogNN; Verginius Rufus
Cows are dumber than dumb

Yeah, but at least they like jazz.

54 posted on 09/05/2014 11:10:03 AM PDT by Maceman
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To: MNDude

1. Cows sleep lying down

2. Sneaking up on a cow is not an easy task. Beef cattle are not pets, and do not like to be touched. When you come inside of about 10’ from them, they perk up and pay attention.

3. Due to the weight, tipping a cow requires more than a little bit of a shove. Cows don’t just topple.

4. If someone does sneak up on a cow and shove it over, they are being a real prick, as the cow is likely to be hurt.


55 posted on 09/05/2014 11:10:20 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: MNDude; Red Badger
Oh, yeah. It's for real!

When ever you are ready, we can go tip a few!


56 posted on 09/05/2014 11:12:49 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alteration: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: MNDude

I never tip cows unless they provide exemplary service. And then no more than 10 percent of the bill.


57 posted on 09/05/2014 11:14:32 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: MNDude

However, SmartCar tipping IS real.


58 posted on 09/05/2014 11:15:31 AM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: F15Eagle

“But do Russian cows do Crazy Ivan’s?”

Only if they’ve been into the vodka.


59 posted on 09/05/2014 11:16:05 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: warsaw44
Now goat tipping, we do that every week.

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60 posted on 09/05/2014 11:16:14 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer.)
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