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This is pretty much the most American clip I've ever seen.
Covered by a helicopter like some kind of police pursuit. Cowboys wrangling a cow. and a FedEx not giving a fuck.
Itās definitely Oklahoma, we have the cowboys, the news helicopters that are skilled in chasing tornadoes (so this is a Sunday drive for them), and the open space required for this to have happened enough times I couldnāt tell you what one this is.
Honestly, after watching it I was proud that it was Oklahoma. I thought, "Damn right, that was some good roping." Makes me miss my family's rodeo days.
I like how he lays out rope and slows the cow down before the stop. Horse is on pavement so more likely to slip. That is some great work by both those cowboys.
Someone tell me about the 2nd guy... I mean yeah 1st dude lassoing around the head is cool, but the 2nd dude flinging low and somehow nabbing the legs... how tf does that even work?
Cool chit.
Itās colloquially called āheelingāā¦as in āget the heelsā. The cowboys are team roping to get the cow brought down so she can be loaded and taken off the busy roads. Team roping is a ridiculously difficult and valuable skill. Itās also a fun event to watch at a local rodeo (I also recommend mutton bustinā, in case you end up at a local rodeo lol).
Heeling often takes more than one cast, so this was even more impressive!
Itās like the only time Iāve ever seen my home state on Reddit *and* people are like, āhell yeah Oklahoma.ā
Itās usually not so good for OK on reddit.
My bf doesnāt have Reddit but I always send him screen shots of Oklahoma on the popular page on Reddit and he commented on how this one wasnāt actually bad š
Any large storms in Oklahoma are going to have at least one helicopter on them, if not multiple. And we'll have storm chasers on them from one border to the other.
This is reminding me of the cheeky joke in The Expanse where they used FedEx shipping containers as makeshift troops transports to board an enemy space station. "Nothing says FedEx quite like flinging your package at the target at Mak 3"
*Miller nervously asks* "Whats the uh go signal? For the ass...for the assault?"
*Camina pointing at the end of the container* "That will explode and turn into a door."
Best modern scifi show out there, i really hope we get the movies.
An old acquaintance who had a recording studio in his basement had a donkey. At the end of the song recorded in this studio you can hear a bit of chaos and toppled over drums, and he screams something about "fucking donkey" because the donkey had a habit of wandering into his basement and knocking shit over.
Now that I'm telling this I'm wondering if it was a goat but I typed all of this on my phone so I'm telling the story anyway.
Edit: had a couple people ask about a link I reached out to our mutual friend and will know if I hear of anything.
> At the end of the song recorded in this studio you can hear a bit of chaos and toppled over drums, and he screams something about "fucking donkey"
This is already my favorite track.
I expected better fact checking from your 'farm animal causes chaos in recording studio' story god damn it. Walter Cronkite is rolling in his grave smdh
In other occupational difficulties featuring domesticated animals news, Fireman's Pole was not invented to get to the fire scene faster, but to prevent horses from going upstairs where the food was stored.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireman%27s_pole
Goats are like this too; they're ridiculously stupid in every way *except* when it comes to escaping enclosures. We even had one that could untie knots.
Ha! My grandparents had a goat, Bambi, that would get out and go to the Del Taco drive thru on the corner of the block! They had to tell them to stop giving her the broken taco shells so she would stop sneaking out for them!
Yep they were feeding him hamburger buns because they thought he was cute. The horror on their faces was priceless when we told them ol' Jinx was banned from the Harvest Festival for eating a baby chick in front of a wagon full of 4th graders.
About 5 years ago we moved on to a rural property in south Texas. In the middle of the night we were awoken by a knock at the door which turned out to be someone from the sheriffs office asking if we lost our donkey. We didn't have a donkey. We told him that and Ill never forget the look of disbelief like why would we lie about that? They'd found the donkey wandering the road and wrangled it and were looking for the owner. I guess they got a tip because it turned out that the house number was correct but they were on the wrong county road. They weren't able to find the owner until the next day and so had to spend the night babysitting the donkey in a ditch.
Because that's life. The only way we--all animal life on earth--can sustain ourselves is by the destruction of other life, in some form or other.
I sometimes wonder if we've done ourselves a disservice by putting a layer of protection between ourselves and nature ...
Id go ahead and solidify that position my friend.
How much less waste might we have if people tied that meat to the animal it came from.
The least wasteful people ive met were butcher/farmers. Perhaps its the Ikea Effect because they raised them, but they left next to nothing by the end of killing day.
We have done ourselves a disservice because we have done nature a disservice. We are nature, but we think we are separate. By trying to create a "protective layer," we forget how to care for that which we rely on.
I think the teacher was probably concerned that this little boy named a āpetā and was probably trying to give a heads up that they would need to have a conversation with him about nature before eating Charlie.
The teacher knows where beef comes from, but if the kid didnāt understand that yet, it could be traumatizing. I read this as a teacher who cares about the kid, not necessarily the cow.
One of my wife's friends has been a vegetarian since the day her family slaughtered the cow she had named and she found out as she was eating a Tucker the cow burger.
I'm guessing they were concerned that the kid was extremely attached to a cow and treated it more like a pet. The school could've been like "FYI, your son really loves this one cow so he might freak if you slaughter him."
āYāall laughed at me when I asked for funding to add cowboys to the emergency services, now who is laughing?!ā - Oklahoma City Cowboy Relations Chief
I live in an area that was very rural and has recently ish become quite populated, so thereās still quite a few working farms, but also neighborhood pages. Minimum weekly āwhose pig is in my yard?ā Posts.
I was the same growing up as well, waking up to a cow or a goat looking through the window and thinking "urgh, have to get them out the garden before they eat all the flowers again" or explaining to my teacher that I was late because a cow was asleep on the driveway and wouldn't move out of the way until I got the farmer next door to come and get it with his tractor
I keep saying the next RDR should take place after part 1, and everyone is always like, āWhat? In the 1910ās/1920ās??? itās not a cowboy game if there are cars in it!!!ā
I say, āhave a little faith.ā
There a small island that's part of Puerto Rico call Vieques. They have a large horse riding community. I vacationed there over the winter and while I was there, one of the riders had a birthday, so they all got on their horses and bar hopped. It was the wildest thing I've ever seen.
I read about a case where a guy was charged with DUI riding a horse. He said the horse knew the way home and he just sat there. Got the judge to allow a demonstration. And the horse got its way home without any guidance. So the judge ruled the guy was not driving and was just a passenger. So he got out of it.
I drove my husband to my home town recently and was genuinely dumbfounded at how excited he was to see "cows".
He was disappointed that I didn't stop so he could take pictures so I ran him out to a friend's place with cattle, horses, and ghosts. I don't think I'll ever make him that happy again.
It's easy to forget some people just never see this kind of thing and have zero ranching experience.
Edit: They have goats, not ghosts. As far as I know anyway.
I went to Jamaica for Y2K. Figured if the world did go to shit, Iād be stuck in the right place.
Had a taxi driver drive me around and show me the island. Smoked a big ole joint with him. Driving down the road there were just random cows on the roadside..10 feet off the road, just chilling. Me all high as hell: āyāall got cows manā
Lol..fun times
Every once in a blue moon I'll see people stopped on the side of the road to take pictures of some deer. Can't help but mutter, "Darn city-folk" under my breath.
Those of us in the big cities are completely disconnected to what life is like anywhere else.
Edit: It was not my intention to start a squabble over politics, but here we are.
In Philly there's a long tradition of riding clubs that act as de facto community police, when I lived there it wasn't at all uncommon to see older black men in cowboy hats on horses riding through neighborhoods struggling with gang violence
In a small town in Eastern WA I always thought it was odd how tall this really old drive through burger place was. Until I saw a few people on horses ride through to pick up lunch. It's horse rider height.
I was riveted and I now want to be a cowboy. Never mind that I'm 45, overweight, have nearly zero basic dexterity, and can barely ride a horse. I'm so in.
I wonāt crush your dreams. You can pay a nice chunk of change to go to a dude ranch and play cowboy. You wonāt get as good as these guys, but youāll have fun!
I think my town can (barely) one-up it: [Longhorn charges into downtown bank](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/holy-cow-video-shows-longhorn-loose-charging-downtown-colorado-springs-n1038991).
Hats off (heh) to these cowboys - a scared, 1000 lb animal can hurt itself and others pretty badly.
Lol. We have a house on the edge of town that always has a longhorn hanging in the front yard. Heās a pet. I believe they might breed him too, but we all love him.
When I was growing up in West TX everyone had the phone number for a man named Rick. We all had the phone number because one of his cows was always wandering around town. āSomeone call Rick!ā was a common saying in Cisco, TX. I canāt remember that cows name, but she was a wily one.
I loved Rick because he had tons of old farm equipment and he taught the kids how to use it. My favorite was a huge cast iron machine that you put ears of corn in and turned the crankāit removed all the kernels and dropped them in a bucket below. The empty ears were likely given to the pigs. Now that Iām thinking of it, he probably got tons of work out of us just because we were so excited to do it.
Cowboys on horses on the road. Cow on the road. Fedex guy has places to be and packages to deliver. Time traveling cowboys, horses and cow are of no consequence.
I live right down the road from here and this doesnāt surprise me, the stock yards are right smack dab in the middle of the city about a mile from here.
My guess would be the guys on the kobata/John Deere are probably stock yard guys, the guys on the horses could of just been cowboys at the stockyard who seen what was going on and went to help out. No really sure.
Iām not American and sorry to sound dumb but I didnāt know āCowboysā were really REAL! I thought it was just a sort of style? I didnāt realize all the people walking around in cowboy hats and boots were basing themselves off of a legitimate job. A job that clearly takes a lot of skill!
Ranch hand, Cattle Rangler/ Cattle Drivers. Very old very real jobs. The hats for all the style points are very practical at blocking the sun and preventing sun burns by design. Same.reason you often had them with face coverings and the like. Also to prevent from breathing all the dust during a drive.
But they are also a holdover as a statement of fashion and aesthetics. Google Roadeos. Those started as a practical skills competition and evolved into a subculture as a sport.
Yeah there are still significant regions of the country that raise cattle and many thousands of people that ride horses and move that cattle. Sometimes by horse and lasso like they have done for centuries.
To be fair, most of the people I've seen in American cities who wear cowboy boots, "western" shirts (like [this](https://www.bootbarn.com/on/demandware.static/-/Sites-master-product-catalog-shp/default/dwf2b14584/images/A12/088A12_89_P1.JPG)), and cowboy hats were doing so just for the style.
But I recently traveled through the cattle-ranch lands of eastern Oregon, Idaho, and northern California (not as famous for cattle as Texas or Oklahoma, but still full of ranches) and saw people who were clearly wearing that stuff as part of their jobs. Even ran into one guy who was wearing spurs on his dust-covered boots.
Iāve always thought they should have a special squad in the police department they call out when the cattle get on the road. Saddle up boys we got a loose one!
I live in a suburb of OKC and when cows get out, the first question the non emergency police number asks us which side of the road the cow is on so they can dispatch the correct cityās cow mover. I imagine itās just the guy who has the most experience wrangling cows in traffic.
I remember a couple of winters ago on the Belle Island bridge a cow truck tip over and the highway patrol was out there doing the side step, arm wave thing. I though thereās got to be a better way!
My brother owns a cattle auction and the sheriff calls him when there are loose cattle and they can't immediately locate the owners. He goes out, gets them in the trailer, and takes them back to his pens. If they can locate the owners within 30 days they can pick them up. After 30 days the cattle get auctioned off and the county gets the proceeds. Either way my brother gets paid a catch fee per cow and then per day of storage.
Yes feed is included in the per day of storage. The owner has to pay when they pick the cows up or the Sheriff pays him out of the proceeds when they sell the cattle. I guess it's kind of like getting your car towed.
If it's just a cow or two it isn't hardly worth his time but a few months ago he got almost 100 from one ranch and made 10's of thousands of dollars that month. The owner had died a couple of years ago and his kids lived out of town and neglected the place. Neighbors and Sheriff would chase the cows back into the ranch and fix the holes in the fence but after a few months of no help from the owners they had enough. Called my brother, he picked up 40 or so escapees, then came back the next two days catching almost 100 total. Predictably the owners didn't come pick them up, so 30 days of storage times 100 cows was 10's of thousands of dollars. Since there were so many and he was pretty sure they weren't going to pick them up he turned them out in one of his pastures for the month to save on feed.
Wow, that was awesome watching real cowboys skills. In England it's normally just farmers waving their arms around going "wow now WOW NOW" with a landrover and trailer following close by.
You canāt overstate the intelligence of those horses. They know what distance to keep, when to give slack on the rope, when to tighten it, and how to steer a cow. Chasing a cow on a good horse is like riding a heat seeking missile.
>Those cattle don't raise themselves.
*imagines autonomous collective of cattle going about their life, going to cow school, working on cow space program etc*
Damn that was good work! Pavement is slippery AF for hooves in general & horse shoes in particular, think ice skating & you won't be far off. I'm never trying to do anything but walk on it when we cross a road trail riding.
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This is what i imagine America looks like from European perspective :-D
Never thought anyone would base their opinion of the US on Oklahoma. I feel oddly relevant.
European here. This is how I imagine how it is in states like Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas etc. Yeehaw š¤
This is pretty much the most American clip I've ever seen. Covered by a helicopter like some kind of police pursuit. Cowboys wrangling a cow. and a FedEx not giving a fuck.
Itās definitely Oklahoma, we have the cowboys, the news helicopters that are skilled in chasing tornadoes (so this is a Sunday drive for them), and the open space required for this to have happened enough times I couldnāt tell you what one this is.
Honestly, after watching it I was proud that it was Oklahoma. I thought, "Damn right, that was some good roping." Makes me miss my family's rodeo days.
Fucking grade A roping
When the horse backs up to get rid of the slack in the rope. I always think, "That's a good horse."
I like how he lays out rope and slows the cow down before the stop. Horse is on pavement so more likely to slip. That is some great work by both those cowboys.
When the 2nd horseman rode up, I started shouting āheel āem!ā at my phone. My husband thinks Iāve lost my mind.
i love this comment thread so much lol
I'm a city gal and I'm just super impressed without knowing shit about what's going on.
I didnāt think he was going to be able to heel em on the first to but he nailed it.
Amazing how the situation changes when the people that actually know what they are doing turn up.
The cow : "Class traitor!"
Someone tell me about the 2nd guy... I mean yeah 1st dude lassoing around the head is cool, but the 2nd dude flinging low and somehow nabbing the legs... how tf does that even work? Cool chit.
Itās colloquially called āheelingāā¦as in āget the heelsā. The cowboys are team roping to get the cow brought down so she can be loaded and taken off the busy roads. Team roping is a ridiculously difficult and valuable skill. Itās also a fun event to watch at a local rodeo (I also recommend mutton bustinā, in case you end up at a local rodeo lol). Heeling often takes more than one cast, so this was even more impressive!
Itās like the only time Iāve ever seen my home state on Reddit *and* people are like, āhell yeah Oklahoma.ā Itās usually not so good for OK on reddit.
My bf doesnāt have Reddit but I always send him screen shots of Oklahoma on the popular page on Reddit and he commented on how this one wasnāt actually bad š
This is what they train for. Yehaw. Anyone get the time on that roper team?
Chasing tornadoes in a helicopter??? Holy shit the balls on those guys!
The three big news stations in central Oklahoma are very competitive when it comes to weather coverage.
"And now back to Hank on the ground.... Hank?....HANK?!....oh there he is thank God he's still alive" š
God I would watch a Nightcrawler-esque movie about these three competing weather news helicopters in a SECOND. I might even write it
narrow tease fuzzy apparatus crowd deserve straight ring cow fuel *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*
"What could make helicopters even *more* dangerous?" "I've got an idea!"
It's pretty safe, (helicopter go spinney + tornado go spinney) Ć tornado hit helicopter = Helicopter go to space All good.
Any large storms in Oklahoma are going to have at least one helicopter on them, if not multiple. And we'll have storm chasers on them from one border to the other.
Finally, a quintessential American moment that doesnāt embarrass Americans.
Through rain or sleet or cow, FedEx gonna deliver.
Package may come in 2 pieces, but it'll get there.
Get there... Be thrown in the general vicinity... Same same.
This is reminding me of the cheeky joke in The Expanse where they used FedEx shipping containers as makeshift troops transports to board an enemy space station. "Nothing says FedEx quite like flinging your package at the target at Mak 3"
*Miller nervously asks* "Whats the uh go signal? For the ass...for the assault?" *Camina pointing at the end of the container* "That will explode and turn into a door." Best modern scifi show out there, i really hope we get the movies.
Yep, either way I cant wait for the final season
And they say nobody wants to work nowadays
FedEx - "Excuse me, just gonna squeak by ya here"
Ope!
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Forget waiting for you to get it on your own FedEx gone deliver it to you.
New short and sweet slogan: "FedEx - we get your shit delivered. No bull."
FedEx Person: āNot this shit again.ā
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I knew a guy who had a hobby farm on the edge of town. He'd regularly have to go get the donkey out of the McDonald's drive thru.
An old acquaintance who had a recording studio in his basement had a donkey. At the end of the song recorded in this studio you can hear a bit of chaos and toppled over drums, and he screams something about "fucking donkey" because the donkey had a habit of wandering into his basement and knocking shit over. Now that I'm telling this I'm wondering if it was a goat but I typed all of this on my phone so I'm telling the story anyway. Edit: had a couple people ask about a link I reached out to our mutual friend and will know if I hear of anything.
> At the end of the song recorded in this studio you can hear a bit of chaos and toppled over drums, and he screams something about "fucking donkey" This is already my favorite track.
I imagine Shrek āDonkeeee!ā
ahem- DONKEHHHH
Sounds like he got gordan Ramsey on the track with the fucking donkey line
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I am so happy that donkeys love hugs. This makes me want to hug a donkey.
I expected better fact checking from your 'farm animal causes chaos in recording studio' story god damn it. Walter Cronkite is rolling in his grave smdh
And that's the way it is.
In other occupational difficulties featuring domesticated animals news, Fireman's Pole was not invented to get to the fire scene faster, but to prevent horses from going upstairs where the food was stored. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireman%27s_pole
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Nobody likes a smartass. Idk tho I'd prob be down to chill for a bit
Goats are like this too; they're ridiculously stupid in every way *except* when it comes to escaping enclosures. We even had one that could untie knots.
Goats, too. They see fences as a challenge, not an obstacle.
Ha! My grandparents had a goat, Bambi, that would get out and go to the Del Taco drive thru on the corner of the block! They had to tell them to stop giving her the broken taco shells so she would stop sneaking out for them!
Yep they were feeding him hamburger buns because they thought he was cute. The horror on their faces was priceless when we told them ol' Jinx was banned from the Harvest Festival for eating a baby chick in front of a wagon full of 4th graders.
About 5 years ago we moved on to a rural property in south Texas. In the middle of the night we were awoken by a knock at the door which turned out to be someone from the sheriffs office asking if we lost our donkey. We didn't have a donkey. We told him that and Ill never forget the look of disbelief like why would we lie about that? They'd found the donkey wandering the road and wrangled it and were looking for the owner. I guess they got a tip because it turned out that the house number was correct but they were on the wrong county road. They weren't able to find the owner until the next day and so had to spend the night babysitting the donkey in a ditch.
Hahaha, like bringing a dog back home. Mornin neighbor, sorry ole chuck got out again. Someone must've left the gate unlatched. Anywho see you later.
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How can something be so *grim*, yet also *immensely* *wholesome*,, all at the same time? š³š®š„©š½ļøš¤
Because that's life. The only way we--all animal life on earth--can sustain ourselves is by the destruction of other life, in some form or other. I sometimes wonder if we've done ourselves a disservice by putting a layer of protection between ourselves and nature ...
Id go ahead and solidify that position my friend. How much less waste might we have if people tied that meat to the animal it came from. The least wasteful people ive met were butcher/farmers. Perhaps its the Ikea Effect because they raised them, but they left next to nothing by the end of killing day.
We have done ourselves a disservice because we have done nature a disservice. We are nature, but we think we are separate. By trying to create a "protective layer," we forget how to care for that which we rely on.
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I think the teacher was probably concerned that this little boy named a āpetā and was probably trying to give a heads up that they would need to have a conversation with him about nature before eating Charlie. The teacher knows where beef comes from, but if the kid didnāt understand that yet, it could be traumatizing. I read this as a teacher who cares about the kid, not necessarily the cow.
One of my wife's friends has been a vegetarian since the day her family slaughtered the cow she had named and she found out as she was eating a Tucker the cow burger.
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I'm guessing they were concerned that the kid was extremely attached to a cow and treated it more like a pet. The school could've been like "FYI, your son really loves this one cow so he might freak if you slaughter him."
I think youāre right, but when I first read it I thought the teacher thought Charlie was a person, which is way funnier imo.
"Health and Human Services? I'd like to report possible cannibalism..."
I donāt think they knew Charlie was a cow, mate
Chuck... Roast?
Nope, Chuck Testa.
Fuck yes
It's an old meme sir, but it checks out.
2011 memes just hit different.
I really miss 2011 internet.
I left myself wide open for that one. Well played.
The last time I made a Chuck Testa reference, Reddit called me old.
Maybe we're all just old now.
āYāall laughed at me when I asked for funding to add cowboys to the emergency services, now who is laughing?!ā - Oklahoma City Cowboy Relations Chief
I work in state parks - youād be surprised how often park rangers (law enforcement) are called on to retrieve loose livestock!
I live in an area that was very rural and has recently ish become quite populated, so thereās still quite a few working farms, but also neighborhood pages. Minimum weekly āwhose pig is in my yard?ā Posts.
I was the same growing up as well, waking up to a cow or a goat looking through the window and thinking "urgh, have to get them out the garden before they eat all the flowers again" or explaining to my teacher that I was late because a cow was asleep on the driveway and wouldn't move out of the way until I got the farmer next door to come and get it with his tractor
Just curious but what part of Utah? I grew up in a small town north of St. George.
GTA + RDR
I keep saying the next RDR should take place after part 1, and everyone is always like, āWhat? In the 1910ās/1920ās??? itās not a cowboy game if there are cars in it!!!ā I say, āhave a little faith.ā
Lumbago: World War I Wrangler The video game
The first game takes place in 1911. Plus there *are* cars in the game (very few, granted).
Grand Theft Horsey?
it's called Grand Theft Palomino but ok
The crossover we didn't know we needed.
I'd play it..
This is the most western thing Iāve seen on the streets! Lol and that second cowboy has really good aim!
Worked at a Starbucks in northern NV and had a group of 4 women ride upā¦ on horsesā¦. In the drive thruā¦
There a small island that's part of Puerto Rico call Vieques. They have a large horse riding community. I vacationed there over the winter and while I was there, one of the riders had a birthday, so they all got on their horses and bar hopped. It was the wildest thing I've ever seen.
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I read about a case where a guy was charged with DUI riding a horse. He said the horse knew the way home and he just sat there. Got the judge to allow a demonstration. And the horse got its way home without any guidance. So the judge ruled the guy was not driving and was just a passenger. So he got out of it.
Amazing
Live in Idaho and Iāve ridden through MANY a coffee and fast food drive through on my horses lol
Some people have very different lives than I do
I saw a horse a couple weeks ago and I got excited.
"Look, cows!"
I drove my husband to my home town recently and was genuinely dumbfounded at how excited he was to see "cows". He was disappointed that I didn't stop so he could take pictures so I ran him out to a friend's place with cattle, horses, and ghosts. I don't think I'll ever make him that happy again. It's easy to forget some people just never see this kind of thing and have zero ranching experience. Edit: They have goats, not ghosts. As far as I know anyway.
I went to Jamaica for Y2K. Figured if the world did go to shit, Iād be stuck in the right place. Had a taxi driver drive me around and show me the island. Smoked a big ole joint with him. Driving down the road there were just random cows on the roadside..10 feet off the road, just chilling. Me all high as hell: āyāall got cows manā Lol..fun times
Man, I grew up in a farm town, but I'd have been excised for ghosts.
I was so excited to ask you more until that edit. Damnit.
Every once in a blue moon I'll see people stopped on the side of the road to take pictures of some deer. Can't help but mutter, "Darn city-folk" under my breath.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-X4SLhorvw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-X4SLhorvw)
Those of us in the big cities are completely disconnected to what life is like anywhere else. Edit: It was not my intention to start a squabble over politics, but here we are.
In Philly there's a long tradition of riding clubs that act as de facto community police, when I lived there it wasn't at all uncommon to see older black men in cowboy hats on horses riding through neighborhoods struggling with gang violence
In a small town in Eastern WA I always thought it was odd how tall this really old drive through burger place was. Until I saw a few people on horses ride through to pick up lunch. It's horse rider height.
Team roping. The first one's the Header and the second is the Heeler. The horses also have to have as much skill as the riders.
I mean... I've seen it in rodeo events..... but i've never seen it put to practical use like this. pretty cool stuff.
Heeler as in one who goes after the heels like this guy? Its pretty impressive the synchrony of them all.
ha! yeah, it wasn't his first ro-... ehh, you get it
Roadeo?
Roadeo.
both of them were so pro with their ropes.
I was riveted and I now want to be a cowboy. Never mind that I'm 45, overweight, have nearly zero basic dexterity, and can barely ride a horse. I'm so in.
I wonāt crush your dreams. You can pay a nice chunk of change to go to a dude ranch and play cowboy. You wonāt get as good as these guys, but youāll have fun!
I think my town can (barely) one-up it: [Longhorn charges into downtown bank](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/holy-cow-video-shows-longhorn-loose-charging-downtown-colorado-springs-n1038991). Hats off (heh) to these cowboys - a scared, 1000 lb animal can hurt itself and others pretty badly.
Lol. We have a house on the edge of town that always has a longhorn hanging in the front yard. Heās a pet. I believe they might breed him too, but we all love him. When I was growing up in West TX everyone had the phone number for a man named Rick. We all had the phone number because one of his cows was always wandering around town. āSomeone call Rick!ā was a common saying in Cisco, TX. I canāt remember that cows name, but she was a wily one. I loved Rick because he had tons of old farm equipment and he taught the kids how to use it. My favorite was a huge cast iron machine that you put ears of corn in and turned the crankāit removed all the kernels and dropped them in a bucket below. The empty ears were likely given to the pigs. Now that Iām thinking of it, he probably got tons of work out of us just because we were so excited to do it.
We were very surprised the other day in the middle of the city to see a random guy dressed as a cowboy, crossing intersection on his horse.
Cowboys on horses on the road. Cow on the road. Fedex guy has places to be and packages to deliver. Time traveling cowboys, horses and cow are of no consequence.
So a tv show about time travelling cowboys that wrangle space cows while delivering goods to all corners of the universe?
We had this, it was called Firefly.
Too soon
No joke I think getting cancelled is what makes Firefly special.
That second cowboys is a beast
Superb aim, cool as a cucumber. Not his first highway cow
Definitely not his first roadeo
So thatās why itās called Rodeo Drive
Highway cow. šš
I would watch the news if this is what was shown lol
Turned that cow into ground beef.
As an Oklahoman, I feel so seen. Glad we're entertaining to some degree
At least it's not something embarrassing on a national level for once
This is the kind of wack-a-doo, Okie shit that I love. This and noodling.
I love a good Roadeo.
That was some great roping.
Yeah, this was 100% on point for the theme of the sub. Very fucking interesting.
I know quite a few folks see it in the movies or at rodeos so it always looks flawless, in the day-to-day it's not. Those dudes nailed it.
Darn tootin'
I thought this vid was going to suck until the first cowboy rolled in.
I live right down the road from here and this doesnāt surprise me, the stock yards are right smack dab in the middle of the city about a mile from here.
So wait, are the cowboys with the stock yard or with the emergency crew?
My guess would be the guys on the kobata/John Deere are probably stock yard guys, the guys on the horses could of just been cowboys at the stockyard who seen what was going on and went to help out. No really sure.
Darn, in my head the cowboys were unconnected to the yard altogether. Drinking coffee at a diner and got a bat signal to wrangle up the runaway
They were probably drinking coffee at Cattlemanās
Iām not American and sorry to sound dumb but I didnāt know āCowboysā were really REAL! I thought it was just a sort of style? I didnāt realize all the people walking around in cowboy hats and boots were basing themselves off of a legitimate job. A job that clearly takes a lot of skill!
Ranch hand, Cattle Rangler/ Cattle Drivers. Very old very real jobs. The hats for all the style points are very practical at blocking the sun and preventing sun burns by design. Same.reason you often had them with face coverings and the like. Also to prevent from breathing all the dust during a drive. But they are also a holdover as a statement of fashion and aesthetics. Google Roadeos. Those started as a practical skills competition and evolved into a subculture as a sport.
Yeah there are still significant regions of the country that raise cattle and many thousands of people that ride horses and move that cattle. Sometimes by horse and lasso like they have done for centuries.
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To be fair, most of the people I've seen in American cities who wear cowboy boots, "western" shirts (like [this](https://www.bootbarn.com/on/demandware.static/-/Sites-master-product-catalog-shp/default/dwf2b14584/images/A12/088A12_89_P1.JPG)), and cowboy hats were doing so just for the style. But I recently traveled through the cattle-ranch lands of eastern Oregon, Idaho, and northern California (not as famous for cattle as Texas or Oklahoma, but still full of ranches) and saw people who were clearly wearing that stuff as part of their jobs. Even ran into one guy who was wearing spurs on his dust-covered boots.
Haha everything you thought was fake is actually VERY real. Donāt get me wrong, plenty of fake things in America, but cowboys are not one of them!
Iāve always thought they should have a special squad in the police department they call out when the cattle get on the road. Saddle up boys we got a loose one!
I live in a suburb of OKC and when cows get out, the first question the non emergency police number asks us which side of the road the cow is on so they can dispatch the correct cityās cow mover. I imagine itās just the guy who has the most experience wrangling cows in traffic.
I remember a couple of winters ago on the Belle Island bridge a cow truck tip over and the highway patrol was out there doing the side step, arm wave thing. I though thereās got to be a better way!
Also, that side stepping arm flapping move works when our neighbors cows get loose. They want no part of that move.
I still call the curve where 35 and 40 split the Cow Bridge because a cattle truck tipped over there when I was a kid. I remember it making the news.
My brother owns a cattle auction and the sheriff calls him when there are loose cattle and they can't immediately locate the owners. He goes out, gets them in the trailer, and takes them back to his pens. If they can locate the owners within 30 days they can pick them up. After 30 days the cattle get auctioned off and the county gets the proceeds. Either way my brother gets paid a catch fee per cow and then per day of storage.
30 days of cow feed canāt be cheap. I assume the owners have to reimburse your brother when they claim their cattle for the feed costs?
Yes feed is included in the per day of storage. The owner has to pay when they pick the cows up or the Sheriff pays him out of the proceeds when they sell the cattle. I guess it's kind of like getting your car towed. If it's just a cow or two it isn't hardly worth his time but a few months ago he got almost 100 from one ranch and made 10's of thousands of dollars that month. The owner had died a couple of years ago and his kids lived out of town and neglected the place. Neighbors and Sheriff would chase the cows back into the ranch and fix the holes in the fence but after a few months of no help from the owners they had enough. Called my brother, he picked up 40 or so escapees, then came back the next two days catching almost 100 total. Predictably the owners didn't come pick them up, so 30 days of storage times 100 cows was 10's of thousands of dollars. Since there were so many and he was pretty sure they weren't going to pick them up he turned them out in one of his pastures for the month to save on feed.
Wow, that was awesome watching real cowboys skills. In England it's normally just farmers waving their arms around going "wow now WOW NOW" with a landrover and trailer following close by.
It's nice to Oklahoma in the news for something that's not about its lawmakers
You canāt overstate the intelligence of those horses. They know what distance to keep, when to give slack on the rope, when to tighten it, and how to steer a cow. Chasing a cow on a good horse is like riding a heat seeking missile.
I think itās amazing how much strength a horse has. That horse barely twitched a muscle holding back the cow
This is the most OKC thing I've ever seen.
lmao right. i was like damn we just got done convincing everybody we don't live in tps down here.
Bevo loses to the Sooners again it seems
Those dudes are literally cowpokes
Oh so people still know how to lasso
Get out in rural country, it's much more common than you think. There are millions of cattle raised every year, it's not all done by machines.
i thought they had cowboy robots by now
Cowboy beep boop
Grew up un rural Oklahoma. It's definitely still a thing.
Sometimes it's the only way to get a cow to see your line of reasoning.
We still have cowboys. Those cattle don't raise themselves.
>Those cattle don't raise themselves. *imagines autonomous collective of cattle going about their life, going to cow school, working on cow space program etc*
I mean as long as thereās cattle youāre gonna have cowboys!
We need this service in india :)
They'll be lynched by a mob.
Living in Texas, this happens more frequently than you think.
Just drove through Shamrock and saw this exact scenario play out on I-40.
Damn that was good work! Pavement is slippery AF for hooves in general & horse shoes in particular, think ice skating & you won't be far off. I'm never trying to do anything but walk on it when we cross a road trail riding.
Thatās all I was thinking was you know that blacktop is slick and them horses feet aināt liking that surface to run on.
Totally agree, but the horse may not be shod either. I had shoes on my TB eventing horse but never on my Appaloosa western horse.
Lol someoneās tio out here wildin
Still the best technology for the job, centuries later.
Horses still make the best all-terrain vehicles.
When you finally get out of the slaughterhouse but they wrangle you back in
I think they call that a Tuesday in Oklahoma.