# Cow tipping **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [July 19, 2009, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cow-tipping/503521 "2009-07-19T08:48:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SeanArenas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeanArenas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeanArenas)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2009, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cow-tipping/503521/1 "2009-07-19T08:48:39Z")
I looked for an old thread on this but my thread search failed. I was recently (July 16) making a video recording of a country/western musical performance (Sean Patrick McGraw) at a tiny little bar, and he says that, while they were in uptown New York, “We might have engaged in an activity where you drive around the countryside, get drunk in the back of the pickup truck, and you see cows standing out there in the field, and you push 'em over, and I don’t know why that’s funny, but to me, that’s hilarious.” He then plays a song called Cowtippin. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/__ClkAM08hU/maxresdefault.jpg "Cowtippin by Sean Patrick McGraw, 7/16/2009") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__ClkAM08hU) So he claims to have done it, there’s the proof. (Recorded July 16, 2009, at a tiny bar in Chatsworth, CA called Cowboy Palace Saloon) As soon as I heard him say it, I thought, “I need to post this video to show the folks at Straight Dope.” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2009, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cow-tipping/503521/2 "2009-07-19T10:09:34Z")
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=375874&highlight=cowtipping](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=375874&highlight=cowtipping) [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=415000&highlight=cowtipping](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=415000&highlight=cowtipping) [http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/821/is-there-really-such-a-thing-as-cow-tipping](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/821/is-there-really-such-a-thing-as-cow-tipping) Show us a video of this common fenomenon.🙂 (or: if it is possible to tip a cow, why has youtube not one (1!) video of someone doing it?) ---
**Author:** ![SeanArenas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeanArenas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeanArenas)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2009, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cow-tipping/503521/3 "2009-07-19T17:37:06Z")
> [@The\_Librarian](#): > > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=375874&highlight=cowtipping](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=375874&highlight=cowtipping) > > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=415000&highlight=cowtipping](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=415000&highlight=cowtipping) > > [http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/821/is-there-really-such-a-thing-as-cow-tipping](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/821/is-there-really-such-a-thing-as-cow-tipping) > > Show us a video of this common fenomenon.🙂 > > (or: if it is possible to tip a cow, why has youtube not one (1!) video of someone doing it?) Thanks for posting a link to the column - I had meant to do that in the OP and had totally forgotten. Also, thanks for posting the links to the other threads. They are too old to post this as a reply to them, so I guess it will stand as its own thread. Maybe cows in Upstate New York are different? ---
**Author:** ![Bootis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Bootis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootis)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2009, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cow-tipping/503521/4 "2009-07-19T19:49:49Z")
> [@The\_Librarian](#): > > if it is possible to tip a cow, why has youtube not one (1!) video of someone doing it? [there is!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsR9Uq_TF1Q) :eek: ---
**Author:** ![SeanArenas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeanArenas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeanArenas)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cow-tipping/503521/5 "2009-07-20T04:18:51Z")
> [@Bootis](#): > > [there is!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsR9Uq_TF1Q) :eek: That’s wild. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cow-tipping/503521/6 "2009-07-21T02:43:38Z")
I may live in WI, but I do not personally know someone who has actually done it… then again, I’ve lived in cities all my life, but still… glad to know it can be done! ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cow-tipping/503521/7 "2009-07-21T03:09:16Z")
> [@Serenata67](#): > > I may live in WI, but I do not personally know someone who has actually done it… then again, I’ve lived in cities all my life, but still… glad to know it can be done! Wait! What? How do you know it can be done? ---
**Author:** ![SeanArenas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeanArenas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeanArenas)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cow-tipping/503521/8 "2009-07-22T00:50:08Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > Wait! What? How do you know it can be done? If you use a plane or if you’re a country singer. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cow-tipping/503521/9 "2009-07-22T01:28:19Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > Wait! What? How do you know it can be done? Forgot the smilie… I was being sarcastic… ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cow-tipping/503521/10 "2009-07-22T02:16:07Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > Wait! What? How do you know it can be done? We know that country singers can claim they’ve tipped a cow. That’s just as good, right? ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cow-tipping/503521/11 "2009-07-22T20:33:08Z")
> [@ZenBeam](#): > > We know that country singers can claim they’ve tipped a cow. That’s just as good, right? Actually, all we know is that A country singer claimed ONCE to have tipped a cow. 😃 (and he didn’t use a Fair Witness) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cow-tipping/503521/12 "2009-07-23T00:13:40Z")
He didn’t even claim to… Didn’t anyone else see the word “might” in the quote? Fair Witness edit: At least, the incident as recounted by the OP does not include him making a definitive claim. ---
**Author:** ![SeanArenas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeanArenas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeanArenas)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cow-tipping/503521/13 "2009-07-23T04:53:36Z")
So true, he even said “we might have…”