Cow Tipping 101

When people hear that I grew up in Wisconsin, they typically start speaking very very slowly. I hear phrases like.. "I don't know if you know this, but..." I usually respond with "Yeah, they taught us that in school, right after Cow Tipping 101."

Well, now some clever Canadians have come up with The Physics of Cow Tipping. Found this on Boing Boing

Cow-tipping myth hasn't got a leg to stand on
By Jack Malvern

IT IS the kind of story you hear from a friend of a friend — how, after a long night in a rural hostelry and at a loss for entertainment in the countryside, they head out into a nearby field.

There, according to the second-hand accounts, they sneak up on an unsuspecting cow and turn the poor animal hoof over udder.

But now, much to the relief of dairy herds, the sport of cow-tipping has been debunked as an urban, or perhaps rural, myth by scientists at a Canadian university.

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