[OT-research] have you ever been cow tipping?

[Sodalis]

Only those who have done it should answer. I dont want any speculations or "i heard" replies... sorry, but it is for research... lame as that may be...

If you have tipped a cow before, please respond with how it went.

1)what were you doing at the time when you decided to do so
2)how did you the event carry out
3)what happened immediately afterwrads (your response and also the cow's and anyone else who were there)
4)feelings during and afterwards.
5)reflect on the event- did it follow what you believed was true up to that point (was it the same as the stories you heard about tipping?)

 

[der_kluge]

Cow tipping is an urban legend.

Any farmer will tell you that cows don't sleep standing up.

That, and you're average adult cow weighs a couple of tons, and it would take quite a few people to actually tip one over assuming the cow even let you do it.

 

[Utrecht]

What die-Kluge said - except that a couple of tons sounds a bit heavy for cows.

 

[Skarp Hedin]

I've lived in Vermont almost all of my life, and I was raised in a medium-rural part of the state. I've never met anyone who even claimed to have tipped a cow.

I did, however, know some guys who were chased across a field by a cow.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Cow tipping is an urban legend.

Well there's your problem, you've apparently been preying on urban cows. They're too savvy!

Them rural ones ain't to smart, though.

 

[Crothian]

Well there's your problem, you've apparently been preying on urban cows. They're too savvy!

Them rural ones ain't to smart, though.

A little while back there was a cow that escaped from a slaughter house in Cinncy. It hid somewhere in the city for five days before anyone saw it and got it captured.

Cow Tipping is not an Urban Legend. It is, however, not what you think it is. It's the same as a snipe hunt.

 

[Paladin]

[Edit]: Never mind.....Crothian beat me to it....

 

[Neo]

Only those who have done it should answer. I dont want any speculations or "i heard" replies... sorry, but it is for research... lame as that may be...

If you have tipped a cow before, please respond with how it went.

1)what were you doing at the time when you decided to do so

Outdoors nighttime Excursion, with a group of youth group friends a fair few years ago, camped in a field.... a field with cows, add alcohol to the mix... and well it seemed funny at the time

2)how did you the event carry out

Sneaked upto said standing snoozing bovine and pushed.

3)what happened immediately afterwrads (your response and also the cow's and anyone else who were there)

Ours was o fall down in fits of alcohol induced hilarity, the cows was to appear stunned, and get up and scarper as fast as it could.

4)feelings during and afterwards.

well being drunk at the time it seemed like a good idea, in hindsight it probably scared the poor animal near to death, and was quite cruel.

5)reflect on the event- did it follow what you believed was true up to that point (was it the same as the stories you heard about tipping?)

pretty much, but as i say years and many learned lessons and bestowed wisdoms later it was a pretty immature and cruel trick to play on the poor snoozing animal, which could also have hurt it, which in turn would have cost some farmer a fair penny, as well as been tantamount to criminal damage if anything had happened to it.... but such are the things young men do, when in groups having fun and drunk.

 

[Neo]

And i can assure folks Cow Tipping is nto an Urban legend, although they don't sleep standing up cows do often drift off and snooze while upright, much as anyone else who is happy, relaxed and mind their own might with not much else to do.

Though pushing one over snoozing or otherwise is certainly something that isn't very easy even when there eight of you

 

[TheDayKnight]

Boy,

Cow-tippin is what you do when city-folk come to visit a farm. You get him to go and try to tip over a cow and drive off into the night, leaving said city-slicker stranded in a cow pasture in the middle of the night.