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# Cows are very heavy and you need a lot of strength and force to be able to get the animal into motion. It will likely reorient its footing while you are wasting energy and will likely fight back, [[DontTryThisAtHome possibly]] ''[[DontTryThisAtHome killing]]'' [[DontTryThisAtHome anyone who attempts this]].

# You will probably make the cow angry, and it will try to defend itself.

->''That's called cow tipping! Haw, Haw, Haw!''

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* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}''. Lightning and Mater go out at night and tip tractors, the car world's analog of cows.

* Despite it's overall nigh-impossibility to do as mentioned above, Cow Tipping is a ''federal offense'' in the state of Wisconsin. It counts as defiling the official state animal.

a) Cows don't sleep standing up.

b) Cows are very heavy and you need a lot of strength and force to be able to get the animal into motion. It will likely reorient its footing while you are wasting energy and will likely fight back, [[DontTryThisAtHome possibly]] ''[[DontTryThisAtHome killing]]'' [[DontTryThisAtHome anyone who attempts this]].

c) Unless injured, cows are perfectly able to lie down and regain their footing whenever they want.

d) You will probably make the cow angry, and it will try to defend itself.

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People will sneak out at night and try to tip a cow over, because as you all know cows sleep upright and are too dumb or weak to do anything about people pushing it over. When they finally fall they will just lie on the ground helpless until someone gets them back on their feet. Right?

b) Cows are very heavy and you need a lot of strength and force to be able to get the animal into motion. It will likely reorient its footing while you are wasting energy and will likely fight back, possibly ''killing'' anyone who attempts this.

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* Variant: In EdEddNEddy, while the Eds are chasing a balloon, they bump into a cow, which then falls on Rolf.
--> ''Rolf:'' Never again will Rolf store his keys in his trouser pockets.

* The 06/15/96 strip of ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' has Jon mention that he once went out cow tipping with some friends when he was younger which [[CatsAreMean inspires Garfield]] to tip over [[DogsAreDumb Odie]].

* A ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' strip had Jon mention that he once went out cow tipping with some friends when he was younger, before Garfield then tips over Odie after that.

* The 2005 MadeForTVMovie, ''Film/{{Larva}}' starts with four teenagers going cow tipping in a Missouri field and after they push one of them over, they find out that it was already dead on its feet. As the teens are running away, laughing at what they had done, the parasites start chewing their way out of carcass.

* ''Film/TommyBoy'': The title character takes his soon-to-be-stepbrother out cow tipping. However, when he attempts to knock the cow over, he slips in the mud, the cow moos, the farmer comes out and chases them off with a shotgun.

* ''{{Film/Heathers}}'' has a scene where two {{Dumb Jock}}s try to impress Veronica and a Heather by cow tipping despite the girl's obvious displeasure at being there. When the boys succeed in pushing the beast over, it lands in a puddle and splatters the girls with mud.

* ''WesternAnimation/CampLakebottom'': The campers try to do this in the "Bloody Marty" episode while staying up their bedtime and playing with Marty.

b) Cows are very heavy and you need a lot of strength and force to be able to get the animal into motion. It will likely reorient its footing while you are wasting energy.

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Cars}}'': Tractor tipping is its version. Mater takes Lightning to do it.

A subtrope of ArtisticLicenseBiology and a popular UrbanLegend (you see, there's a reason why it is called an [[CitySlicker urban]] legend and not a ''rural'' one).

A subtrope of ArtisticLicenseBiology and a popular UrbanLegend (despite cows being part of a ''rural'' setting, we know).