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Cow tipping is the purported activity of sneaking up on any unsuspecting or sleeping upright cow and pushing it over for entertainment. The practice of cow tipping is generally considered an urban legend [ 1 ] and stories of such feats viewed as tall tales . [ 2 ]
There would be an issue if the article flatly said in Wikipedia's voice "cow-tipping is impossible" as a statement of fact, but it doesn't, it says (my emphasis) "[Lillie and Boechler] concluded that tipping a cow would require a force of nearly 3000N and is therefore impossible to accomplish by a single person" and that it was "in my opinion ...
Cow tipping is possible, whether the cow is asleep or not doesn't matter. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.193.121.94 19:55, 9 June 2011 (UTC) A friend staying with me right now used to go cow tipping with some other people when he was in Merced. I don't know why people are saying it is impossible.
The article makes the case that a single person tipping a cow is impossible. However, in pop culture it is often depicted as difficult. The most famous depiction of cow tipping is in Tommy Boy, where the title character fails to tip a cow. I can’t remember if he said that he was never successful, or had just succeeded once.
The possibility of cow tipping can be show by the calculations below. These calculations have been confirmed by field observations but not in a controlled environment as of the writing of this email. Using the dimensions and weight of the cow given in the times online article dated November 05, 2005 "Cow-tipping myth hasn't got a leg to stand on"
Also know that tipping has a complicated past and wasn’t even popular when it was first introduced to U. S. customers. But the practice, thought to be a European tradition, stuck around and ...
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2 Alleged cow tipping laws. 3 Urban Myth v Stand-Up. 8 comments. 4 Revisions. 3 comments. 5 Java game. 6 I've removed the image. 1 comment. 7 It isn't an urban legend ...