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Ok, so I just spent more time then reasonable researching cow tipping, because it's always fascinated me, also more then reasonable (I'm a girl who loves cows, what can I say) and after finding TONS of websites (Wikipedia, Snopes, The Straight Dope, and more) saying cow tipping is bullshit and impossible (The math doesn't work out with the ways cows are built, cows don't sleep standing up, just sorta doze and wake up easily, they won't just stand there unaware) mixed in with tons of people who say they have witnessed it (But can offer no proof besides "I've seen/done it.") which is pretty much what I've run into in reality, I think I found the most logical explanation for the divide between "Urban legend"/"Done it":

I'm a country girl and I've been around cattle and horses all my life. I just don't buy "cow-tipping." I guess it is the semantecs of the words. Cow-tipping to me would mean sneaking up on a sleeping cow (who is standing) catching them off guard and with a swift push, boom they fall over. This just does not happen. For one thing the cattle I have been around do not sleep standing up.

What I am hearing is drunk teens using brute-force to knock a cow over (which can be done). This is more like Volkswagen-tipping. Enough guys could turn over a Volkswagen and enough guys could wrestle* a cow to the ground. To me that is not a true definition of cow-tipping.

Bev "see definition for *bulldogging" Hamilton

You can all go back to not caring.

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This sounds like an odd thing to make an entry on. However, that was actually quite informative. So... y-yeah.

I mean, I knew for a while that cow-tipping was bollocks, but.

Yeah when people at my high school went cow-tipping it sounded more like cow-tackling business, so I never attended because it seemed like it would hurt the cows and distress me.

I too love cows. When I'm old and done traveling I want to have a dairy cow or two, or have them stay at a friend's place with a ton of cows so they don't get lonely.

I've looked into cowtipping too, and decided it isn't real...

but...

...that 'cow wrestling?' That actually sounds even more unrealistic to me. That's just flat out violent and malevolent, and I have trouble imagining that anyone would want to do something like that.

I mean, I'm sure there are people, but damn...

It's super douche, but I bet there are people who do it. Think of a bunch of bored jock douchebags who have no respect for cows or other people's property.

so. cows sleep laying down. and cows (typically I'd say, unless they are drugged/ really used to being around people/ the person/people have food to give the cows) will RUN from people. particularly in the dark. especially if people are harassing them. yes, 8 drunk, strong men may corner a cow and tackle it to the ground, but be sure that the cow will jump up and run away.

Horses sleep standing up....but if you tried to knock one of them over theyd pry kick your ass.

kk. done.