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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...

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...

TIKRIT, Iraq – Here's the conundrum: You've got six really big missiles, and the bosses want to make sure they don't get used. You don't know what's inside, and you don't want to find out that it's a chemical or biological weapon. That rules out tried and true methods of firing a few rounds from a .50-caliber machine gun or an automatic grenade launcher, or taking care of business with a chunk of plastic explosive. The solution: a variation on an old prank played on unsuspecting cattle. Instead of tipping cows, however, soldiers with G Troop, 10th Cavalry tipped SA-2...