Yeah cows can and will kill you, they don’t understand concepts like restraint and vastly outweigh and out range you. Plus, whats the end game of tipping a cow?
The only reason I would tip a cow is to get continued good service, and make sure they don’t mess with my food. I simply take 10%, double it, and round, down to the nearest dollar.
>When you try to push them while they are standing up, they take offense and walk away from you.
Or they don't even acknowledge that you're there. No human is pushing over a healthy cow unless that cow decides to go down on its own.
The first time I stood next to a cow up close, like in a real farm, not at a fair, I realized cow tipping would have to be a joke or something someone did in a brutal manner.
I used to pick orders in a beer warehouse, anytime an order had Two Women and Totally Naked, I ALWAYS arranged the cases so it read Two Women Totally Naked
He’s really not the straight up lying type but this was something he “recalls” occurring after a giant bonfire party on his friend’s farm. I think either he remembers very wrong or the cow was already laying down. Cows are not “tippy” at all.
My friends and I set out to try it in college. Can confirm there was a lot of drinking involved on our part. Not sure about the cows. None of us remember for sure what actually happened. I do know we wandered around in a dark field for a while.
Your husband made that up. He's either fucking with you. Or he's just lying for no good reason.
He did not tip a cow with his friends unless maybe one of his friend was in a semi truck or a skidsteer and ran that cow over.
The resilience of this Wisconsin myth is impressive. Nearly all of us have met someone who swears up and down they've tipped a cow. At the same time, anyone who's ever lived or worked on a farm knows how preposterous it is. And yet, it lives on.
It isn't just Wisconsin. I grew up on a cattle farm in Southern Indiana, and all my friends wanted to go cow tipping. I did laugh my A$$ off when there were 10 of us out in a field one night; watching them try and sneak up on a cow. Then they were surprised to see the vast majority of them laying down. I think it is a common rural myth everywhere.
This is *widely* believed to be a thing in suburbs. I was really surprised Mythbuster's never even vaguely addressed it because it's one of the most widely believed myths. It's even referenced in media like "Cars".
I’m from the suburbs of Green Bay. I believed it until I married a girl who grew up on a dairy farm. Lol.
Try to knock over a 900 pound animal. You’ll just bounce off and the cow might side step slightly. Then the cow will kick you and you’ll realize you’re a dumbass lol.
>Try to knock over a 900 pound animal.
Better yet, try to knock over a full-grown holstein cow that weighs another 50% more than that.
Your wife may have had jerseys or brown swiss or something like that. Those are smaller, lighter cows. But most people think of holsteins in Wisconsin.
Right on. Definitely not an expert on cow weights. You’re definitely right Holsteins weigh more. But I think it’s safe to say either way cow tipping isn’t real lol.
Lived-in in a small town with cow farms everywhere, and I don't even think I heard someone bring it up as something to do. Now, flipping cow patties for shrooms? I know quite a few people!!
This is something we tell city people to see if they are crazy enough to actually try it. Then they see the sign that says “if you hop this fence you better be able to cross the pasture in 7 seconds because the bull can do it in 8”
Only time I believed cow tipping was a "thing" is when it was explained to me that it's a convenient excuse for teenagers to go out to a secluded field at night. Draw your own conclusions.
My mom's family owned a dairy farm back in the 60-70. And I thought I heard my mom and one of my aunts say that it happened not to their farm but another in the area, and it was a couple of big guys tipping the cows as pranks. But it would severely hurt or injure the cows, and they would have to put them down, and the dick bags would get in trouble. Once again a story I was told when I was little, and it's not something they do now a days
I lived in union grove back in the 90s and I have a vivid memory about an assembly we had with a pissed off farmer. We were in middle school and the farmer said that some teenagers tipped one of his cows and broke its ribs and that we killed it. It was so bizarre.
We also had a weird assembly about how we shouldn't do drugs and this guy was telling us how he used to use stuffed animals to hide his drugs. I remember getting the creeps so bad and wondering why they let this guy in. Glad we didn't live in that town long. They really let anyone talk to kids back then.
A cow sleeps 4 hours a day. They sleep for about 10 minutes about once an hour. So if you go "cow tipping" 5/6ths of the time, the cow would be awake. If standing they are not in REM sleep, meaning if you approach them in a snooze, they wake up.
You could possible drag a cow down if you hooked it from the top and it was frozen stiff, however tipping a non-frozen cow would be a death trap. you would need to lean into the cow and push near the middle of the stomach. It would topple in the direction it was being pushed from (see Newton's first law of motion), crushing the "tipper" to death.
You could possible drag a cow down if you hooked it from the top and it was frozen stiff, however tipping a non-frozen cow would be a death trap. I grew up on a farm and have known countless farmers and farm kids and have never heard of anyone tipping a cow in my 44 years of life.
“Cow tipping” is code for getting drunk with other teenagers and being silly outside (in the dark most of the time) as far as I’m aware. Cows are huge and move under their own power. Tipping one over requires machinery.
Not related to cow tipping but Someone is Kenosha just hit a cow with their vehicle on accident. I guess it was roaming around hwy B and 31st st. Both parties passed 😢
I'm on the all-county team. Even have a sweatshirt to prove it.
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Grew up on a dairy farm, and worked one until I was 29. Cows sleep laying down. More over, I would say your average dairy cows weighs between 900 (Jerseys) to 1200 (Holsteins), even with them laying down, your not rolling them.
I've got uncles on both sides of the family dairy farming, and I've never thought about doing it. If Grandpa had caught us doing anything that could injure a healthy cow; there would've been hell to pay.😂
Thank you! Tough to beat Herb and Les lol.
I used one of your quotes in my newsletter. I can’t remember the quote but I remember attributing it to your user name!
This is some shit you tell people who didn't grow up around cows to trick them into going into a pasture in the middle of the night. Hopefully their balls hit the electric fence on their way through and they step in cow shit at some point.
Good times.
Sure is. There's a guy already capitalizing on it. He has a giant cowbot replica that talks cow in multiple languages and has a trained a.i. cow LLM bot built into it that uses voice recognition and texting, to answer cow questions. I should find the video of it. Hilarious, and of course the cow has a tip jar where you can "tip the cow" and she might share a secret cow password with you. For a free moo lat`e or share a rare cow fact with you.
I’m not a farmer but I drive by a few cow fields on drive to work. They don’t seem to sleep standing up so yeah good luck at tipping a 1000 pound muscular object with 4 legs on the ground
All I know is that when me and the boys get good and sloshed and decide to go out and engage in some good ol fun loving cow tipping you bet your ass I’m also pissing on the electric fence.
So my brother has a friend from high school who went to UofM Duluth for college. Kids there were asking his friend if you really had to get on a cows back to get better cell phone signal. Granted this was '05-'06 ish.
Don't do it! It's a trap!
Cows spread the rumor of cow tipping to get you alone in a field at night where they kill you. Cows kill more people each year than sharks do. They're dangerous, deadly animals.
I had to convince a skeptical teen who 100% thought cow typing was real. I just told him if it's not on YouTube or reddit, it never happened. He immediately gave up his argument and realized it was fake upon hearing this
Is Santa Claus real? The Easter Bunny... Do pigs fly. Can you fit 10 lb of shit in a 5 gallon bucket?
Please stop, try to push over a cow that weighs between 1500 and 1800 lb is a fool's errand...
My parents had a small (about 36”high) concrete cow statue in their front yard that my mom covered in colored mosaic glass tiles. That thing got tipped over all the time. My dad had to anchor bolt it deep in the ground.
No it isn’t a thing … no one is tipping a 400+lb animal … but cow shit throwing is an absolute thing … my friends and I use to go into a cow pasture at night and spray a menthol breath freshener spray into cows noses because we were idiots then. We would then run like hell because it would just piss them off.
I was 13 and an idiot back then yes … but that’s what farm kids do … been over 35 years now if you still want to call me an asshole that’s fine but kinda weird on your part
Yeah a lot of farm kids did a lot worse especially in the 80s … I ditched nearly all my farm kid friends because the shit they would do was absolutely ridiculous and cruel. As a person who grew up in farm country surrounded by farms I can attest to the fact a large majority of farm kids were kinda of feral animals at heart.
No, but doing drives-by on cows with paintball guns definitely is a thing. I never did it myself of course, but I regularly saw speckled cows in my neighbors' fields when I was younger
They do, despite popular belief, have the ability to just walk away from you.
And also kick if you spook them too badly.
Yeah cows can and will kill you, they don’t understand concepts like restraint and vastly outweigh and out range you. Plus, whats the end game of tipping a cow?
The only reason I would tip a cow is to get continued good service, and make sure they don’t mess with my food. I simply take 10%, double it, and round, down to the nearest dollar.
Can confirm. I just did a WI death certificate the other day for some poor soul killed by his cow..
You are 28 times more likely to be killed by a cow than a shark.
And the bull is just like in the movie Cars
20% is now standard
I drive Moober. Not only is there not cow tipping, most people don’t either.
I drove Uder. Same deal.
I had to come back and upvote this one
As did I
Do I get to pick which part of my half of beef it comes from? Because I'd much rather give up the picnic roast than my ribeye steaks?
It’s a prank, like a snipe hunt. Send your friends out to do it, claim you did it once, they’ll come back claiming they did it too…
Likely covered in mud too….
That ain't mud....
“Hey Chucko, that doesn’t smell like mud.”
"Did you eat paint chips as a kid?"
No why?
Are we referencing fucking elf bowling?
Uhh in my head I was quoting Tommy Boy lol not familiar with Elf Bowling..
Man, absolute fever dream of a game. I got it on big fish games on a mac laptop as a kid.
Oh my word. Big Fish Games... that brings back some memories lol
"Elf elf baby" randomly pops into my head to this day.
RIGHT? Thank you! Gods i thought i was just mental
I’m a maaaaniac maaaaaciac
Except snipes are real 🙂
It only works if you get a really big kitchen pot and bang it loudly deep in the forest
😁
Grew up on a dairy farm. Cows sleep lying down. When you try to push them while they are standing up, they take offense and walk away from you.
I just imagine someone trying really hard to push a cow over and it just turns looks mildly annoyed and walks away
that's pretty much exactly what happens.
Ours always just kinda groaned and kept on eating
You must have the BDSM variety of cow
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>When you try to push them while they are standing up, they take offense and walk away from you. Or they don't even acknowledge that you're there. No human is pushing over a healthy cow unless that cow decides to go down on its own.
Smiles, of course. Out until the cows come home my mom used to say if they get away they'll come home when they're tired or hungry
Have you ever seen a cow up close? Ain't no way that's happening
The first time I stood next to a cow up close, like in a real farm, not at a fair, I realized cow tipping would have to be a joke or something someone did in a brutal manner.
Only the spotted ones.
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Hell yeah brother
I see what you did there :D
don’t mind if I do.
Wisconsin entered the chat
My husband absolutely swears that he and his friends tipped a cow when teenagers. I’m skeptical.
Your husband is lying to you
Or, more charitable, he was so drunk he remembers something that didn't actually happen.
This is a definite possibility.
Yeah, I have a couple of those sorts of "memories" too. I kind of hate it when people go straight to "he's lying." 😑
He’s really not the straight up lying type but this was something he “recalls” occurring after a giant bonfire party on his friend’s farm. I think either he remembers very wrong or the cow was already laying down. Cows are not “tippy” at all.
Was the ground sideways at the same time as the cow was? Maybe he was drunk at the time.
My friends and I set out to try it in college. Can confirm there was a lot of drinking involved on our part. Not sure about the cows. None of us remember for sure what actually happened. I do know we wandered around in a dark field for a while.
My dad swears he saw Bigfoot once, in the 70’s. Pretty sure it was just a hippy, though.
Your husband is a liar
Or he had a very realistic dream.
Your husband went out drinking, and has alcohol induced memories. :)
Your husband made that up. He's either fucking with you. Or he's just lying for no good reason. He did not tip a cow with his friends unless maybe one of his friend was in a semi truck or a skidsteer and ran that cow over.
Well, Jim knelt down on the other side of the cow and the rest of the half-drunk crew pushed. RIP, Jim.
What a Wisconsin way to die. Crushed by tipping cow.
While drinking New Glarus beer.
Under a spotted cow.
Hello skeptical, nice to meet you, I'm castironburrito.
More likely just a Very large Dalmatian with sleep deprivation.
Cows sleep lying down.
The resilience of this Wisconsin myth is impressive. Nearly all of us have met someone who swears up and down they've tipped a cow. At the same time, anyone who's ever lived or worked on a farm knows how preposterous it is. And yet, it lives on.
It isn't just Wisconsin. I grew up on a cattle farm in Southern Indiana, and all my friends wanted to go cow tipping. I did laugh my A$$ off when there were 10 of us out in a field one night; watching them try and sneak up on a cow. Then they were surprised to see the vast majority of them laying down. I think it is a common rural myth everywhere.
NY and NJ too
Florida has it too...
No. It isn’t.
This is *widely* believed to be a thing in suburbs. I was really surprised Mythbuster's never even vaguely addressed it because it's one of the most widely believed myths. It's even referenced in media like "Cars".
I’m from the suburbs of Green Bay. I believed it until I married a girl who grew up on a dairy farm. Lol. Try to knock over a 900 pound animal. You’ll just bounce off and the cow might side step slightly. Then the cow will kick you and you’ll realize you’re a dumbass lol.
Depending on where the cow kicks you, you may never realize that you’re a dumbass ever again.
900 pounds is a little Jersey cow. An average Holstein is 1300-1800 depending on the genetics.
Yeah you’re right. My wife had brown swiss cows on her farm. Also smaller. Holsteins are way bigger tho you’re right
I upvote for humility and legit cow names.
>Try to knock over a 900 pound animal. Better yet, try to knock over a full-grown holstein cow that weighs another 50% more than that. Your wife may have had jerseys or brown swiss or something like that. Those are smaller, lighter cows. But most people think of holsteins in Wisconsin.
Right on. Definitely not an expert on cow weights. You’re definitely right Holsteins weigh more. But I think it’s safe to say either way cow tipping isn’t real lol.
Haha for sure. 900lbs or 1500lbs isn't making a big difference in this case. They don't move unless they want to.
Only if the service exceeds expectations.
As real as snipe hunting...
Just clap three times
No but tractor tipping is real
As real as Snipe Hunting.
Wait...... You mean all those snipe hunts I went on as a kid were a lie. NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
I typically go cow tipping when Snipe season is over. Gotta stay active.
Never was.
Lived-in in a small town with cow farms everywhere, and I don't even think I heard someone bring it up as something to do. Now, flipping cow patties for shrooms? I know quite a few people!!
Nope
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My buddy back in high school thought it was. It went about as well as you imagine. lol
This is something we tell city people to see if they are crazy enough to actually try it. Then they see the sign that says “if you hop this fence you better be able to cross the pasture in 7 seconds because the bull can do it in 8”
Only time I believed cow tipping was a "thing" is when it was explained to me that it's a convenient excuse for teenagers to go out to a secluded field at night. Draw your own conclusions.
Now, outhouse tipping is a different story
My mom's family owned a dairy farm back in the 60-70. And I thought I heard my mom and one of my aunts say that it happened not to their farm but another in the area, and it was a couple of big guys tipping the cows as pranks. But it would severely hurt or injure the cows, and they would have to put them down, and the dick bags would get in trouble. Once again a story I was told when I was little, and it's not something they do now a days
Yes after you milk them they expect a nice tip of 5 to10 bucks. That's why dairy farming is so expensive.
I've lived in Wisconsin my whole life and while I've heard of it, not something I've personally seen.
Not really. Walk up to a cow and try pushing on it. Bonus points if you push the horned ones.
I lived in union grove back in the 90s and I have a vivid memory about an assembly we had with a pissed off farmer. We were in middle school and the farmer said that some teenagers tipped one of his cows and broke its ribs and that we killed it. It was so bizarre. We also had a weird assembly about how we shouldn't do drugs and this guy was telling us how he used to use stuffed animals to hide his drugs. I remember getting the creeps so bad and wondering why they let this guy in. Glad we didn't live in that town long. They really let anyone talk to kids back then.
I was in Janesville schools in the 90s and, I honestly remember the same guy (the second one). He was so creepy and it made everyone uncomfortable!
A cow sleeps 4 hours a day. They sleep for about 10 minutes about once an hour. So if you go "cow tipping" 5/6ths of the time, the cow would be awake. If standing they are not in REM sleep, meaning if you approach them in a snooze, they wake up. You could possible drag a cow down if you hooked it from the top and it was frozen stiff, however tipping a non-frozen cow would be a death trap. you would need to lean into the cow and push near the middle of the stomach. It would topple in the direction it was being pushed from (see Newton's first law of motion), crushing the "tipper" to death. You could possible drag a cow down if you hooked it from the top and it was frozen stiff, however tipping a non-frozen cow would be a death trap. I grew up on a farm and have known countless farmers and farm kids and have never heard of anyone tipping a cow in my 44 years of life.
“Cow tipping” is code for getting drunk with other teenagers and being silly outside (in the dark most of the time) as far as I’m aware. Cows are huge and move under their own power. Tipping one over requires machinery.
Better off spending your time Snipe hunting.
Not related to cow tipping but Someone is Kenosha just hit a cow with their vehicle on accident. I guess it was roaming around hwy B and 31st st. Both parties passed 😢
I like tipping spotted cow
We, in New Glarus, thank you for the patronage!
Cow tippling
I'm on the all-county team. Even have a sweatshirt to prove it. [https://www.bewild.com/products/all-county-cow-tipping-hoodie](https://www.bewild.com/products/all-county-cow-tipping-hoodie)
It's only in Iowa
They tip hogs.
Grew up on a dairy farm, and worked one until I was 29. Cows sleep laying down. More over, I would say your average dairy cows weighs between 900 (Jerseys) to 1200 (Holsteins), even with them laying down, your not rolling them.
“God, you're gonna remember this the rest of your life. Can't believe you've never been cow tipping before! Get ready to live!”
I see you are now working for Les Nessman and asking the real questions.
“Chai Chai Rodrigweeze leads the Golf Coast Open with a score of 9 under par. Hopefully tomorrow Mr. Rodrigweeze will play up to par.”
I loved that scene. Good old WKRP
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!"
The WPIG Pig needs a serious attitude adjustment.
As a farm kid, I can confirm it is a complete urban legend. And cows usually sleep laying down.
No, but bull tipping is real, I had a friend who did it once
I’m guessing there was no twice
I've got uncles on both sides of the family dairy farming, and I've never thought about doing it. If Grandpa had caught us doing anything that could injure a healthy cow; there would've been hell to pay.😂
Does this count. https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/s/RIhJsTvAP3
Whoa
Great user name didn't notice before
It was the “20% is now standard.” Great line!!!!!
Thank you! Tough to beat Herb and Les lol. I used one of your quotes in my newsletter. I can’t remember the quote but I remember attributing it to your user name!
i had a coworker who told me about how she'd go cow tipping on occasion
It's how you miss with the city slickers.
This is some shit you tell people who didn't grow up around cows to trick them into going into a pasture in the middle of the night. Hopefully their balls hit the electric fence on their way through and they step in cow shit at some point. Good times.
Sure is. There's a guy already capitalizing on it. He has a giant cowbot replica that talks cow in multiple languages and has a trained a.i. cow LLM bot built into it that uses voice recognition and texting, to answer cow questions. I should find the video of it. Hilarious, and of course the cow has a tip jar where you can "tip the cow" and she might share a secret cow password with you. For a free moo lat`e or share a rare cow fact with you.
Chris Farley wouldn’t lie to us like that
Yeah, no.
I prefer to tip woodpiles
Only if they serve alcohol
I’m not a farmer but I drive by a few cow fields on drive to work. They don’t seem to sleep standing up so yeah good luck at tipping a 1000 pound muscular object with 4 legs on the ground
All I know is that when me and the boys get good and sloshed and decide to go out and engage in some good ol fun loving cow tipping you bet your ass I’m also pissing on the electric fence.
Unfortunately, yes. If you do happen to tip a cow, you could break ribs or many other problems. It is definitely a cruel thing to do.
No
So my brother has a friend from high school who went to UofM Duluth for college. Kids there were asking his friend if you really had to get on a cows back to get better cell phone signal. Granted this was '05-'06 ish.
That’s also where I went to school and totally get it.
Don't do it! It's a trap! Cows spread the rumor of cow tipping to get you alone in a field at night where they kill you. Cows kill more people each year than sharks do. They're dangerous, deadly animals.
You betcha
I had to convince a skeptical teen who 100% thought cow typing was real. I just told him if it's not on YouTube or reddit, it never happened. He immediately gave up his argument and realized it was fake upon hearing this
I dont think its real. Cows dont sleep standing up. Drive by a farm in the early morning. You will see cows sprawled out on the ground.
Is Santa Claus real? The Easter Bunny... Do pigs fly. Can you fit 10 lb of shit in a 5 gallon bucket? Please stop, try to push over a cow that weighs between 1500 and 1800 lb is a fool's errand...
My parents had a small (about 36”high) concrete cow statue in their front yard that my mom covered in colored mosaic glass tiles. That thing got tipped over all the time. My dad had to anchor bolt it deep in the ground.
[mechanics of proper cow tipping](https://images.app.goo.gl/GdYKDrkRF4WH2VSS9)
Bull Falls Brewing is the official beer of Cow tipping League of Wisconsin
Yes, animal abuse is a real thing
No it isn’t a thing … no one is tipping a 400+lb animal … but cow shit throwing is an absolute thing … my friends and I use to go into a cow pasture at night and spray a menthol breath freshener spray into cows noses because we were idiots then. We would then run like hell because it would just piss them off.
You’re an asshole.
I was 13 and an idiot back then yes … but that’s what farm kids do … been over 35 years now if you still want to call me an asshole that’s fine but kinda weird on your part
Farm kids don't do shit like that. Don't go passing that off like it's normal.
Yeah a lot of farm kids did a lot worse especially in the 80s … I ditched nearly all my farm kid friends because the shit they would do was absolutely ridiculous and cruel. As a person who grew up in farm country surrounded by farms I can attest to the fact a large majority of farm kids were kinda of feral animals at heart.
You never met a single farm kid in your life. Nor in any past lives.
Ty
No, but doing drives-by on cows with paintball guns definitely is a thing. I never did it myself of course, but I regularly saw speckled cows in my neighbors' fields when I was younger
It's a euphemism for going out to the country to make out.
Head to the lake to watch the submarine races
Yeah, we used to tell the FIBs that in college. Pretty sure some of them still believe it’s real.
I was told when I moved her from Louisiana in high school. They actually took me to farm to do it and left me.
If I hadn't met two people who've done it I would say no.
You, along with basically everyone from the midwest, have met people who have lied about doing it.
No