Has ANYONE actually gone cow-tipping?
 

We've all heard STORIES about people who have gone cowtipping, however no one I have met has actually done it. For those of you unfamiliar with cow-tipping, it is the act of sneaking up on a sleeping cow and pushing it over, supposedly this is entertaining. I am neither pro nor anti cowtipping, I am interested in determining whether cow tipping is a myth, or a reality.

So my questions are this:

A)Have you YOURSELF been cow-tipping?

B)How many people were required to tip over the cow?

it seems quite possible, but in all my years around cows I have never seen it done.. so no clue..

I don't think it's feasable. I'd expect the cow to setp to the side.

Yeah...that or the cow would be too heavy to even budge....

To answer the questions

A.) Nope...I've heard of it, but not as "cow tipping"

B.) No clue. I'm guessing at least 3 people

My friend Ted said he did.

According to him, you have to have two or three guys to push the cow over.

And do it close to a fence; apparently the are pretty mad when they hit the ground and wake up...

Out of everyone here I am not supprised that you are the one to ask this question.

I was talking to farmers about this (hey.. Wisconsin.. working in a cattle feed store.. they knew their cows).. they said it was possible to shock them and push them over before they realised what was happening.. but them hitting the ground would cause their rips to snap and pierce all kinds of internal organs.. causing them to die.

I've been too scared to test the theory.

I've heard lots of stories of famous cow tipping expeditions but alas I've never had the good fortune to knotch this experience. Not that I would because were I to be sleeping soundly only to have some numbskull come along and knock me over I think I'd be pretty pissed off. :)

OK: I second that :)

hadn't even heard of that habit, and there are plenty of cows around the area here.

Sadly, I can admit to being stupid and going cow-tipping.

I grew up in Az, but spent all of my vacations in california on a ranch, which I loved and still love very much. I raised a lot of animals up there... *sniff*

But anyway... after herding cattle from the top of the hill/mtn that they feed on for 3 months everyone else rode back to the ranch except me, Jodie, Jodie's brother, Deborah, and Brian.. (cen't remember his name for the life of me). Give or take that I was 13 or 14 at the time and all of ranged between 8-17.... was good times. ANYWAY, we decided it would be fun to continue riding around until dusk when we knew everyone would be inside and we didn't need to be back at the ranch quite yet. I feel quite guilty about having anything to do with this.. but I did, because it's kinda cruel.. yet funny all at the same time.
So anyway... Deb, Brian, Jodie's Bro, and myself hurled a sleeping cow on to it's side. Was a bit of an effort because the cow probably weighed 500 lbs or so, if not more. The cow in question just sort of freaked and wobbled around a lot, it couldn't get up at all. So after what seemed like forever, the cow finally calmed down and Brian was the only one willing to help it back up. I can't say it was completely interesting, because it wasn't.... I think in a lot of ways it's like waking someone up while they're sleeping... it can cause irrepairable damage or death. Luckily the cow didn't die, but I've known instances where people have done it and the cows have died. I've just come to the conclusion that it's a silly thing to do... but I think it will continue to be done because people like to do silly things ;)

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Yeah, my father did it as a kid, growing up on the farm. This was in the '30s, so he also had a side hobby: tipping over outhouses.

why would anyone walk thru a cow pasture at night ankle deep in manure to tip a cow...

...but, should you decide to don your LL Bean hip boots please print the following for your next tip trip:

1: choose a cloudy or moonless night - the darker it is, the easier it will be to approach the cow

2: find a location with the fewest cows - this will increase the chances that all the cows will be asleep

3: make sure there are NO BULLS in the pasture - bull attacks are the leading cause of injury among cow tippers - remember, bulls are cows with horns. as a safety precaution, bring a red blanket for impromptu matadoring

4: once you have found a good location, check wind direction and approach your target cow against the wind - this will make it harder for the cow to hear you

5: go for the tip - in a creeping motion, walk toward the cow, place both hands on one of its flanks, and push with a hard, but smooth stroke

6: as soon as the tip is complete, revel briefly in your success, then RUN LIKE HELL!! the tipped cow will usually wake on impact with the ground, which will awaken the other cows - sometimes a panicked stampede will follow, and that's a really bad scene

I'm not sure that red matters. As I remember it, bovines don't see colour. They run towards it because it is waving and such. Much like snakes are deaf, they rise in time with the rhythmic playing of the snake charmer because the charmer himself is waving back and forth.

CSFilm: OMG, Day of the Tentacle!! :)

Odd that I don't remember that screenshot...

Personally, I think a lot of tipping stories are fake. I've helped my wife work her father's herd and cows are big, stupid animals. I've seen them bend thick steel pipe with ease when trying to get out of the chute...maybe with a rope & a truck you could tip them, but in my experience (admittedly limited) there is NO way two or three people could push one over.

I grew up in a small mountain town, and lived less than a hundred meters from a large plot of land where cows grazed. For fun summer entertainment we used to dam up the irrigation with rocks, logs, and mud and I'm sure cow patties (dirty dirty kid I was). Well, still being a small child not even a teen-ager yet my friends and I didn't try to tip a full grown cow, but cornered a calf, and got a kick out of knocking it over.

I know it's sick, but I have tons of these small town stories that astound and disgust "normal" people.

There's a guy I know who we always tease about being from a small town. Admittedly, it's not that "hick" but there is still some evidence.

Despite his denial that he is, indeed, a hick, he has been cow tipping and has smoked corn stalks. Apparently, to tip a cow, you do need three good strong folks. Just push at it from the side over the stomach, and it'll fall. And yes, they will chase you, so be prepared to dictate a hasty retreat.

i love cows

please don't hurt them

You love those shit caked snot face droolers? Cows deserve to be turned into hamburgers, I'll tell you that much. Bunch of ugly assholes, those shits will piss on you in a second too.

That said, I grew up on a farm/ranch, and I wasn't ever strong enough to cowtip but my older brothers used to push over horses/cows all the time. They'd either be ultra-mega pissed off, get up and chase you around, or look at you like "Hey. That wasn't nice." and fall asleep on the ground.

yeah. i love <i>"those shit caked snot face droolers"</i>.

love their eyes the most.

i like a good well done sirloin burger or filet mignon tho... i just can't think of those big eyes when i eat it.

I'm with Bernadette. I love cows! They're so damn cute.

I rode one a few summers ago. It wasn't too impressed and tried to kill me after I fell off, but it was fun.

I've had plenty of opportunity, since I worked with a farmer a long time ago, but heard that they are unable to get back up on their own so I decided against doing it.

you'd think with the fact that i grew up with two dairy farms on either side of my house that i would have gotten a chance to do this but most of the time the farmers herded them up near their house far away from the fences near me(like miles). I have petted them through the fence and milked them though (with the farmers permission). I probably would'nt do it now anyaways since I respect both of those farmer enough to not even rewmotly give them a chance of having a problem with a tipped cow.

Two people can easily pull a cow down.. I've done it when when branding them. Yes when they're awake they do kick and freak out, but it is possible for even a couple people to pull a cow down and hold it.
It's not a difficult task.. especially when the cows, though pastured, are very domniciled one might say. But people can think what they want I suppose.

When I was around 15, I was on a retreat (Catholic High School requirement thingy). We snuck out of the building which was out in the middle of nowhere in Illinois farm land and our mission was to tip some cows...or break the myth as the poster suggests.

Well, we went across the road to the pasture, jumped a crappy wooden fence and walked into the cow pie ridden pasture about 100yards in the pitch dark, with one flashlight which I was holding. While panning the area with the light, i saw a couple of green eyes looking out at us...it was brown, TALL and hairy as hell. I froze, and said quietly to the guys..."What the F***, that ain't no cow!" It kept staring, not moving, and so did we. After a short heated argument, we decided two things

1. The green eyed tall brown thing was NOT a cow (my opinion was that it was a buffalo, which was the basis of most the arguing)

2. That turning and running for the fence would be a BAD idea, so we backed out slowly never moving our gaze from the green eyes.

If you can't tell, im totally urban, and to this day I believe it was a buffalo, but I guess I'll never know for sure. Mission was a failure, since all we got was shitty shoes and a shot of adrenelin.

Those were the days....

I know my cows as good as the next person (well, I eat them), but I'd think that the cow could get hurt badly by it's own weight. You know, the ribs, and so on.

It just tenderises it.

Yeah, I've tipped a cow once...she cleaned my table 110% before I sat down and had a golden personality though, so I spotted her $5 for the lovely meal and service.

I had a couple of friends who did that on the weekends for fun.. or just once.. but it took about 5 of them to knock it down... then they all ran like hell because they heard sirens and saw someone running at them with flashlights and what not...
So I wouldn't advise it.. if they were telling the truth

I have always wanted to try it, I thought it would be funny.
- the cow poop.

Mushrooms my friend. We used to go pick magic mushrooms in the very wee hours of the morning. The best place to pick em was in the pasture.:D



You tip em late at night or very early in the morning when they are asleep, not during the daytime when they are wide awake.

:rolleyes:

i am almost positive that it is just a joke people play on others... the cows just get pissed and attack you... but i dont know. im not dumb enough to try to push something over that is 3-4 times my size... but thats just me

Not too many cows in New York City. I there were I wouldn't fuck with them.

I always chalked cow tipping and snipe hunting up as dumb shit country folk try to get citified folk to do so they can leave their tarded asses out in the middle of nowhere so some Texas Chainsaw Massacre shit can happen to them. *breath*

But I guess if the majority is to be believed, you really can tip cows.

FYI: snipe hunting- still a hoax .

I tired it once, but failed. A bunch of us drove out to a dairy farm at about 4am one night after a bout of drinking only to find that the cows were all AWAKE!! Curses! Apparently it was milking time.
And they were cute in a big hulking dirty stinky animal kind of way, we didn't want to hurt them.

I always thought this was some sort of urban legand. I lived my whole life on a dairy farm and in the summer, would wake up at 5:30am to round up the cows in the field and I never, repeat never saw a cow sleep standing up. In the winter they would sleep in the free stall barn and when I went in a 6am to start milking, all 60 of them would be in one of the stalls lying down.

Maybe the cows are dumber, more lazy to lie down or whatever where you are from but I have never seen it. Would like to one day though.

Well where i live there is a lot of cows actually there are cows just behind our grass lawn there is a field where there is walking cows so hell yeah we are tipping cows when we are drunk... Damn its fun but one day some of my freinds where out cow tipping and they killed the cow... so now i dont do it any more...

Back at my parents farm, my mom has cows. I've tried to tip them but they have to be asleep.Our cows are so skittish that I have never seen them sleep. I do not know if cows actually sleep standing up though.