My mate Tracey is married to a Farmer and they live in a village called Chop Gate on the outskirts of Middlesbrough!!

Many of their cows have become victims of a current youth craze ie., Cow Tipping!!!

Has anyone heard of it before ??

For those who haven't the 'street urchins' pray on the cows as they sleep in the middle of the night (cows sleep standing up)......by creeping up on the cows and pushing them they quite literally tip over.....yeah I laughed at first!!!

but farmers have great concerns that with the summer months coming and the increase in teenagers camping out etc this could become a real safety risk not only to the cows who can sustain serious injuries .....but the kids themselves as cows can stampede if stressed or alarmed!! Farms too are dangerous places to be wandering around at night!!

This was a real problem in the USA a few years ago and has obviously 'cottoned on' with youths over here!!

Anyone heard of it happening around this neck of the woods??

Cows sleep standing up - realy ?

Wish they would try it on a Bengal tiger :mad:

this is actually quite a regular occurance in certain parts of barnsley many of the locals see cow tipping as a favourite past time hehe!

We have been doing it for 10+ years around rotherham- well since i was a lad at least.

Originally posted by damo
this is actually quite a regular occurance in certain parts of barnsley many of the locals see cow tipping as a favourite past time hehe!

Well once they get electric in Barnsley, all the kids will want a playstation, so they will leave the cows alone .

Didn't this turn up on the 'cult' film "Heathers" (Christian Slater / Winona Ryder) in about 1990?

So they've been doing it for at least 15 years apparently.

It's something of a 'jock' pursuit it seems (not a reference to Scots but athletic dunderheads).

I have never heard of it before & neither has it been a problem to them before.......I wonder why it has become 'a massive trend' all of a sudden if it has been done for years before with only a limited number of tippers??? :suspect:

I've checked and cows do sleep laying down.

This has been going on for ages - it was happening when I was a student, almost 10 yrs ago! eek, now I feel old!

Poor cows - can't even sleep in peace at nights without flippin' brainless kids coming and disturbing 'em!!! Should be ashamed!!!

I hope the cows DO stampede and squish the little critters to death. Would serve em right! Just leave the damn cows alone and get yerselves playing on the train lines instead. try pushing a train over and see where THAT gets ya!!!:rant:

Originally posted by nick2
I've checked and cows do sleep laying down.

They did'ent use to.
They have only started since people decided to tip them up.

It's been around for ages and the origin of the phrase - when you go cow tipping don't tip the ones with testicles!

This cow tipping is new to me never heard of it here in Queensland Australia, but there again there are lots of things that don't get to Queensland until about 10 years after everyone else gets them. Seriously though I have never heard anyone here talking about it & I actualkly live in a rural area.

Yeah, cow tipping is great fun, but a good snipe hunt is even better!

Nomme

Iv'e seen a Zebra that got tipped onto a Kangaroo HERE (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v689/viking99/forums/zebraoo.jpg)

Originally posted by msbehavin
Poor cows - can't even sleep in peace at nights without flippin' brainless kids coming and disturbing 'em!!! Should be ashamed!!!

I hope the cows DO stampede and squish the little critters to death. Would serve em right! Just leave the damn cows alone and get yerselves playing on the train lines instead. try pushing a train over and see where THAT gets ya!!!:rant:

Yeah headline.....Cow Tippers Topped by Cows !!....with piccy of grinning cows sat on 'pleading youths'!!! OR

If this becomes a problem in South Yorkshire you might wake up to find Shiesh and Msbehavin dressed in a pantomine cow outfit 'tipping' you out of bed at an unearthly hour!!!!!

Following the postings suggesting this has been around for many years I have done some research and found



this (http://www.grq.net/enzo/cowtipping.html)

if you have the desire to tip cows please visit this site and leave the cows to sleep in their fields (standing up or sitting down) :rant: or even this (http://www.cowguys.com/pasture.html) and this (http://www.freefunpages.com/1/tip.htm) anything but a real cow please!!!!!!!!![

Cow Tipping used to be popular back in the early to mid 90's where I used to live. I used to hear lots of conversations about it in the sixth form common room, but never actually got see it being done. Wow, this brings back memories!!! :)

I can't believe people are acting like this is a "fun" activity. Tormenting animals and possibly injuring them in the process is not my idea of fun.

Well the farming community actually don't believe it can be done....cows are very, very, heavy...doubt whether any youth could push one over in reality.......farmers are however concerned at the cows being 'stressed' with unwanted attention and the element of trespassing on their land at all hours and generally getting up to mischief!!

So word of warning.... don't even waste your time trying...... :rant:

For all you "Townies", here is a picture of a cow waiting to be tipped Moo Cow (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v689/viking99/forums/Cowonsite.bmp)

What a complete boad of lollocks! if any of you have ever got up close to a mature bovine you would know that it's virtually impossible to shove them a little way, let alone push them over, and just for good measure they tend to push back :shakes: :shakes: :shakes:

Originally posted by owdlad
What a complete boad of lollocks! if any of you have ever got up close to a mature bovine you would know that it's virtually impossible to shove them a little way, let alone push them over, and just for good measure they tend to push back :shakes: :shakes: :shakes:

I agree,
I think people have got cow tipping confused with Dwarf throwing, which must be easier

Originally posted by t020
I can't believe people are acting like this is a "fun" activity. Tormenting animals and possibly injuring them in the process is not my idea of fun.

You didn't blow frogs up with a straw then as a kid ?

I have been trying to tip a cow over when it is asleep.
(I have done a search and no one has mentioned this on the forum :heyhey: )

Me and my mates are finding them too heavy though.
Could anyone lend me a fork lift truck, just for one night to see what a cow looks like when it has been tipped.

Thank you in advance.

Vicky Naylor

be funny if there was a bull that was awake in the same field

You would need it to be electric, so that you can sneak up on the sleeping cow or else it would keep moving. :|

So can you change the thread title to "Electric forklift wanted"

i recoment tipping the bull, remember it is also a good idea to where red!

Originally posted by f_g
i recoment tipping the bull, remember it is also a good idea to where red!

Your being silly now!:o Bulls are colour blind :|

Damo is incorrect re the practice of 'tipping' cows in Barnsley. The term is 'tupping', as in Iago's claim in Shakespeare's Othello, that the moor is 'tupping the white ewe'. In the Hoyland district of 'Black Barnsley', where a blue-eyed man is looked upon with great suspicion, goatish couplings betwixt human and beast are quite common. Indeed, many of the stunted, bandy-legged menfolk find a bovine partner favourable to the local womenfolk. At least, they may reason, a Friesian cow will not say, pre-coitus, "Pull me vest darn when tha's finished, like".

Nick2's reference to 'blowing up frogs with straws' rekindled happy, childhood memories. I, myself, a natural conservative, favoured the 'traditional' straw method. My dear friend Andrew [who now occupies a senior position in South Yorks Police], a restless modernist by nature, introduced me to the bicycle-pump method. Ah, the blue, remembered hills of childhood....

I would never tip a cow unless the service was really outstanding.

Oh lordy lord, my day would not be complete without one of your hillarious one'liners!

Is this thread really about cow tipping? i havn't got time to scroll through!?!
Sheep do it on their own for fun! 'overthrown' i think its called.

Originally posted by timo
Damo is incorrect re the practice of 'tipping' cows in Barnsley. The term is 'tupping', as in Iago's claim in Shakespeare's Othello, that the moor is 'tupping the white ewe'. In the Hoyland district of 'Black Barnsley', where a blue-eyed man is looked upon with great suspicion, goatish couplings betwixt human and beast are quite common. Indeed, many of the stunted, bandy-legged menfolk find a bovine partner favourable to the local womenfolk. At least, they may reason, a Friesian cow will not say, pre-coitus, "Pull me vest darn when tha's finished, like".

Nick2's reference to 'blowing up frogs with straws' rekindled happy, childhood memories. I, myself, a natural conservative, favoured the 'traditional' straw method. My dear friend Andrew [who now occupies a senior position in South Yorks Police], a restless modernist by nature, introduced me to the bicycle-pump method. Ah, the blue, remembered hills of childhood....

Some times Timo I am seriously worried for your sanity, other times I don't give a flying ---- :D

this is not a US phenomon. Its been going on in the Peaks for years. It can seriously hurt a cow though:mad: but is funny

I thought cows laid down when they slept because I once had the dubious pleasure of standing in liquified cow poo up to my ankles in a shed and having to wake up 200 cows and then shoo them through to the milking shed. They all looked so peaceful as they LAY in their individual stalls and didn't even seem particularily alarmed when upon opening their eyes the first thing they saw was me!!
They were incredibly clumsy and my poor feet were well and truly trodden on and when you're surrounded by loads of them all milling around and relieving themselves at the same time it was an experience that I don't have any desire to repeat.
In the milking shed the guys who attach the hoses to the cows udders stand in a lowered walkway so they are at head height to the udders, my friend Matthew really screamed when a cow relieved herself directly on his head, laugh I almost cracked a rib!!!

Originally posted by robbie
this is not a US phenomon. Its been going on in the Peaks for years. It can seriously hurt a cow though:mad: but is funny

Well I did kinda guessed it came from the yanks....:blush: most other stuff does....!!

Can't be that long before somebody re-records the old Debbie Harry song "French Kissing in the USA" as "Cow Tipping in the USA".

I'll settle for 10% of the royalties.

There's nowt so queer as folk

Macdonalds will be selling Beef Turnovers soon, advertised by Anna Friel tipping the cow.

Surely , it should be pretty simple for cow-lovers to get sweet revenge ?
All they have to do is walk round any university , college or whatever , and they'll spot loads of students sleeping on their feet. A good shove and ----hey presto !
It's not cruel either as the student is used to falling down and , in general , won't feel a thing. Any fit cow-lover should be able to manage about 200 on a normal day. The World record is 453 at Hull Polytechnic , 1989.

Fareast is correct re the lank-haired, slack-jawed androgynes that pass for students. They would certainly make good targets, in their semi-conscious, sleepy state. Perhaps 'Media Studies' students from a 'new', University would present the best quarry. They can often be easily spotted, reading tabloid newspapers, fat, white behinds hanging out of their jeans, scurf-ridden and incurious in expression. One push could topple an entire Year of them.

I heard of it at least 10 years ago, so hardly the 'latest' craze. Probably one of those things that comes and goes in cycles and persists in the hinterlands of wales to come to the fore again years later. (A Welsh guy explained the concept to me at uni).

Originally posted by shieshuk
My mate Tracey is married to a Farmer and they live in a village called Chop Gate on the outskirts of Middlesbrough!!

Many of their cows have become victims of a current youth craze ie., Cow Tipping!!!

Has anyone heard of it before ??

For those who haven't the 'street urchins' pray on the cows as they sleep in the middle of the night (cows sleep standing up)......by creeping up on the cows and pushing them they quite literally tip over.....yeah I laughed at first!!!

but farmers have great concerns that with the summer months coming and the increase in teenagers camping out etc this could become a real safety risk not only to the cows who can sustain serious injuries .....but the kids themselves as cows can stampede if stressed or alarmed!! Farms too are dangerous places to be wandering around at night!!

This was a real problem in the USA a few years ago and has obviously 'cottoned on' with youths over here!!

Anyone heard of it happening around this neck of the woods??

Looks like the craze could be spreading and diversifying!

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1364175.html?menu=

No such thing as cow tipping realy, it's just something that someone once said as a joke years ago and it's been kept up by the youths .

Did anyone see those fantastic cows on show in Manchester? It's a touring exhibition, where brightly painted sulptures of cows were on display on street corners throughout the city.

Fabulous. And not one got tipped over!

Red Robbo,
Exiled as I am, on the wrong side of the Pennines, I saw the lovely cows you refer to. Sexy little beasts weren't they?