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.
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.
A cow laying on it’s side can get up on it’s own.
Bulldogging
branding
castrating
de-horning
giving birth.
All can get up on their own.
Oh yeah. Get three guys, run, and slam the cow simultaneous with your shoulder. The cow leans, tips, and then boom, hits the ground. Just avoid doing it during rutting and calving season at all costs.