Kyle Klubertanz and the "Looking for Bucky" cow.
Posted on 06/22/2007 5:35:47 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin hockey player Kyle Klubertanz and former hockey player Jeffrey Slinde were each assessed $200 fines today for tipping over a cow last August in front of the Kohl Center, home of Badger hockey.
Klubertanz, 21, of Sun Prairie, and Slinde, 22, of Madison, were on their way home from the campus bar scene at about 2 a.m. on Aug. 3 when they decided to tip over one of the more than 100 sculpted and decorated cows which graced various parts of Madison last summer as the Wisconsin CowParade.
They tipped over one of three cows which were placed near the Kohl Center and were spotted doing so by workers at the Kohl Center who called police.
When officers arrived at the scene and asked the pair why they tipped over the Badger-red clad cow, Klubertanz replied: "We were stupid."
All three of the Kohl center bovines, "Moo Rah Rah Wisconsin;" "If you want to be a Moosaic, come along with me," and "Looking for Bucky," were tipped over during the summer, according to the Milk Marketing Board, which sponsored the event.
After a brief court session today, Klubertanz, who will be a senior in the fall, said he thought it was the Bucky cow that he and Slinde tipped over. The base of the cow was damaged as was the right side above the udder and the left hoof.
Both Slinde and Klubertanz were charged with a misdemeanor count of criminal damage to property, but those charges were lowered today to county disorderly conduct, a forfeiture action which leaves the pair with no criminal record. Along with the fine and court costs, each has already finished 30 hours of community service by volunteering at youth hockey camps, said attorney John Hyland, who represented Klubertanz.
The damage didn't seem to diminish the value of the cows when they were auction after CowParade was finished. "Looking for Bucky" brought $11,500, while "Moo Rah Rah Wisconsin" brought $11,000. The "Moosaic" cow was tied for the top spot at the auction, bringing in $13,000, said Moriah Morris of the Milk Marketing Board staff.
The primary beneficiary of the auction was the new American Family Children's Hospital at the UW.
Kyle Klubertanz and the "Looking for Bucky" cow.
Cow tipping ain’t a crime!
Oh, Gawd! Not that again, LOL!
Oh, I’ll be watchin’ and I’ll be at a lot of the games, so you look for me. ;)
And Bucky isn’t chewing his cud...it’s tobaccy, because the Looney Leftists around here won’t let a guy smoke anywhere anymore!
Amazingly, not ALL of the UW Professors are completely nuts. We’re usually ranked behind UC Berkley in that area. A small blessing, LOL!
Yes, that’s true. There was an FR article about a UW professor who called global warming bunk. That’s good news! I heard Cornell University’s supposed to be bad too, maybe even worse than Wisconsin. And UC Berekely is the more like UC Barfley.
I dunno, maybe I should transfer to UW later, more conservatives on campus are good to help de-liberalize things. Plus Kyle Klubertanz is cute, lol :)
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