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Cow-tipping myth hasn't got a leg to stand on
Times on Line (Britain) ^
| November 05, 2005
| Jack Malvern
Posted on 11/05/2005 11:21:46 AM PST by OSHA
IT IS the kind of story you hear from a friend of a friend how, after a long night in a rural hostelry and at a loss for entertainment in the countryside, they head out into a nearby field.
There, according to the second-hand accounts, they sneak up on an unsuspecting cow and turn the poor animal hoof over udder.
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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.
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Another problem is that cows, unlike horses, do not sleep on their feet they doze. Ms Boechler said that cows are easily disturbed. I have personally heard of people trying but failing because they are either using too few people or being too loud.
Most of these athletes are intoxicated.
TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: hillary
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To: mad_as_he$$
Next Darwin award could go to two big flat guys.
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posted on
11/05/2005 9:14:57 PM PST
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Old Flat Toad
(If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy liberals?)
To: Baynative
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posted on
11/05/2005 9:45:02 PM PST
by
WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
(Prayers for healing and relief from pain for Cowboy...........)
To: Old Flat Toad
naa it's all about leverage. Go to the rodeo they do it all the time.
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11/06/2005 7:50:25 AM PST
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mad_as_he$$
(Never corner anything meaner than you. NSDQ)
To: OSHA
Ms Boechler, .... concluded ... that a cow standing with its legs straight would require five people to exert the required force to bowl it over. Except for the part about them being light sleepers, nothing in here disproves this. Thinking back to my youthful days, I probably would have instinctively thought to bring four or five guys for a stunt like this.
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12/04/2005 8:01:40 AM PST
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ElkGroveDan
(California bashers will be called out)
To: Fester Chugabrew
The best guitar player in the world probably hangs out in some Memphis dive, but he doesn't have the breaks and thereby has yet to become famous. Being only one jellybean away from the big time, he ends up winding clocks for a living while the tuning pegs corrode.
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12/04/2005 8:04:41 AM PST
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ElkGroveDan
(California bashers will be called out)
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