Another myth debunked...

[The Chairman]

It has been part of the college scene for YEARS. Now it appears, to be only a myth!

Cow Tipping: Without a leg to stand on!

 

[doole]

My brother-in-law had a cow ("Skinny Minny") who used to wander out onto the frozen marsh in mid-winter, for some reason. He used to just throw a chain around her neck, hook her up to the tractor, and tow her back.

In spite of a rapidly-moving flurry of hooves behind the tractor throughout the trip back to the barn, she never fell over once. I think their balance might indeed be pretty good.

 

[O2BBubbleFree]

I grew up around cows and new it was a myth. Not that I ever tried tipping, but I know that no matter what time of day or night you go out in the pasture, you can't catch cows sleeping.

 

[TCDiver1]

Darn! Anyone for a snipe hunt?

 

[mongoose]

Yeah, I've known this for some time... not so much the weight of the cow, which is significant, but the fact that in an evolutionary sense, these are pack-oriented prey animals. They've been domesticated but they are *very* alert. When some other species comes tiptoeing into the area, in the middle of the night, they will know, and they will react.

And I doubt very seriously the bull will appreciate whoever it is sneaking around messing with his concubines.

--'Goose

 

[chip104]

sorry guys, as hard as it seems I'd have to say that it is possible. But I don't advocate doing it. It's just plain mean.

 

[Ber Rabbit]

Cows can be cruel. There was a herd where I kept my horse when I was a kid. One year a cow fell on the ice in the pasture and broke her leg, she managed to get up and get off the ice before the rest of the herd noticed her. The herd came over and kept forcing her back onto the ice where she kept falling and getting up and trying to get to dry land. The owner had to come out and run the herd off and take the injured cow to the barn. She spent a few weeks hanging in a sling in the barn but the vet fixed her up good as new.
Ber :lilbunny:

 

[Louie]

Wehay!

A Research Project on the Physics of Cow Tipping.

I want to know who their funders were.

 

[pants!]

I've personally seen it done. I was too chicken to get out of the car, mostly because I didn't want to get shot. Three of my friends sneaked up on a cow, buried their shoulders into it, and knocked the thing over.

I'm sure there's got to be video of a cow-tip somewhere..

 

[Dectek]

Not quite the subject we were on ....But ONE Tipped Bovine