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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 24, 1990
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Cow tipping requires fine touch
Everyone knows all the fun activities in which your typical college student participates: sports, concerts, wild parties,
cow tipping. Wait a minute, cow tipping?
It appears so. At least for four
 university of Connecticut stud-
ents this summer attemp-
ting to engage in the ilegal,
heinous act of cow tipping.
For those of you who are to figure out why anyone on God's green earth would give a farm animal a cow, you may explain just what cow tipping is.
As many of you may already know, cows sleep in the standing position. By doing this, they avoid the possibility of falling out of bed. However, because they choose to sleep standing, they leave themselves vulnerable to bored college students who have nothing better to do than knock over herds of cattle. This brings us to the crime at hand.
Apparently four college students decided it would be fun to push over sleeping cows and laugh hysterically as the unsuspecting cows crashed to the ground. It is likely that being pushed over during slumber is almost exactly like being shoved from your bed to the ground although, I guess I'd have to check with a victimized cow to be sure.
Anyway, before the Connecticut students could score even one success cow tip, a farmer spotted
Rich Bennett
Staff columnist
them and called the police, who arrived shortly thereafter and arrested the youths on charges of trespassing and attempting animal
I never did find out how this earthshattering case turned out. For some reason, I never saw it covered on the nightly news. But rest assured, the world is not a safe place if these alleged cow tipper was attacked. The cow tipper will only tip again. As the saying goes, once a cow tipper, always a cow tipper.
This whole warped story made me wonder if any students on our very own campus had ever tried something similar. After all, there are plenty of kins in Kansas, and I'm sure they are all quite tippable.
So, through my network of student connections I managed to find a few people who had engaged, or at least attempted to engage in cow tipping.
After talking to these cow tippers, I found out some interesting facts on the "spirit" of which I was not aware. For instance, all of the cheeses we tipped the cow over wasn't enough. It seems the whole premise of cow tipping is that
when the cows are knocked over they are not supposed to be able to return to their feet on their own — sort of like a helpless beetle on its back. This would be defined as a successful cow tip.
None of the individuals I talked to had achieved this status of cow-tipage, however. Some of the people I talked to were not even able to push the cows over. Other students were successful in knocking the cows to mother earth only to have the animals return to their feet with no trouble at all. As the legend goes, the cows must fall completely on their back, with their legs in the air for them to be unable to get up.
From what I gathered, one definitely does not want a cow to return to its feet after it has been knocked on its side. This happened to a couple of people I interviewed, and apparently the cows were quite angry and began to pursue their transgressors. In one case, the harassed cows were accompanied by a farmer, who was accompanied by his shotgun. The violators returned to return核查, how ever. By the way, if anyone has anything like this on film, I recommend contacting Bob Saget of "America's Funniest Home Videos." He has a $100,000 check waiting for you.
Rich Bennett is an Overland Park junior majoring in journalism.
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