Editing Cow tipping (section)

== In popular culture ==
[[File:Cow tipping creamery.jpg|thumb|The Cow Tipping Creamery in [[Frisco, Texas]]]]

Assorted individuals have claimed to have performed cow tipping,<ref>{{cite news |title = Johnny Flynn: The Brit Folkster Talks Influences, from Shakespeare to Scratchy 78s |last = Eakin |first = Marah |newspaper = [[The A.V. Club]] |date = May 31, 2011 |url = http://www.avclub.com/article/johnny-flynn-55289 |access-date = May 24, 2016 |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160405092333/http://www.avclub.com/article/johnny-flynn-55289 |archive-date = April 5, 2016 |df = mdy-all }}</ref> often while under the influence of alcohol.<ref name=Eaton>{{cite news|title=Cow Tipping? Probably Bull|newspaper=The Roanoke Times|location=Roanoke, Virginia|date=September 6, 2006|last=Eaton|first=Joe|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-150987528.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160220132809/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-150987528.html|archive-date=February 20, 2016|df=mdy-all|access-date=November 29, 2015}}</ref> These claims, to date, cannot be reliably verified,<ref name=Haines /> with Jake Swearingen of ''[[Modern Farmer (magazine)|Modern Farmer]]'' noting in 2013 that [[YouTube]], a popular source of videos of challenges and stunts, "fails to deliver one single actual cow-tipping video".<ref>{{cite magazine |url = https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/09/the-mathematical-formula-that-proves-cow-tipping-is-a-myth/279357/ |title = The Mathematical Formula That Proves Cow-Tipping Is a Myth |magazine = The Atlantic |date = September 4, 2013 |access-date = October 9, 2016 |author = Garber, Megan |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170302053434/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/09/the-mathematical-formula-that-proves-cow-tipping-is-a-myth/279357/ |archive-date = March 2, 2017 |df = mdy-all }}</ref>

Pranksters have sometimes pushed over artificial cows. Along Chicago's [[Michigan Avenue (Chicago)|Michigan Avenue]] in 1999, two "apparently drunk" men felled six fiberglass cows that were part of a [[CowParade|Cows on Parade]] public art exhibit. Four other vandals removed a "Wow cow" sculpture from its lifeguard chair at [[Oak Street Beach]] and abandoned it in a pedestrian underpass.<ref>{{cite news |last = Cassell |first = Jennifer |title = Udder Disrespect: Beach Wow Cow Carried Off, Vandalized |work = Chicago Sun–Times |url = http://infoweb.newsbank.com/resources/doc/nb/news/0EB42423491CF4CF?p=AMNEWS |via = NewsBank |page = 4 |edition = Late Sports Final |date = July 16, 1999 |access-date = November 29, 2015 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> A year later, New York City anchored its CowParade art cows, including "A Streetcow Named Desire", to concrete bases "to prevent the udder disrespect of cow-tippers and thieves."<ref>{{cite news |last = Stephenson |first = Heather |title = UVM Hopes to Milk Art Cow Project in New York City |url = http://infoweb.newsbank.com/resources/doc/nb/news/10D8385439F094A0?p=AMNEWS |work = Rutland Herald |date = June 4, 2000 |via = NewsBank |url-access = subscription |access-date = November 30, 2015 |archive-date = October 13, 2023 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20231013205304/https://infoweb.newsbank.com/resources/user/login?destination=doc/nb/news/10D8385439F094A0%3Fp%3DAMNEWS |url-status = live }}</ref>

Cow tipping has been featured in films from the 1980s and later, such as ''[[Heathers]]'' (1988), ''[[Tommy Boy]]'' (1995), '' [[Barnyard (film)|Barnyard]]'' (2006), and ''[[I Love You, Beth Cooper (film)|I Love You, Beth Cooper]]'' (2009).<ref name=Steelhammer2013 /><ref>{{cite web |title = Barnyard Poster and Trailer |date = January 2, 2006 |last = Parsons |first = Ryan |work = The Can Magazine |url = http://www.canmag.com/news/4/3/2737 |publisher = Minds Eye One |access-date = May 24, 2016 |url-status = usurped |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160606184535/http://www.canmag.com/news/4/3/2737 |archive-date = June 6, 2016 |df = mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title = Movie Review: I Love You Beth Cooper |work = Huffington Post |first = Zorianna |last = Kit |date = August 10, 2009 |url = http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zorianna-kit/movie-review-i-love-you-b_b_229932.html |access-date = May 24, 2016 |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160405082256/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zorianna-kit/movie-review-i-love-you-b_b_229932.html |archive-date = April 5, 2016 |df = mdy-all }}</ref> It was also used in the title of a 1992 documentary film by [[Randy Redroad]], ''Cow Tipping—The Militant Indian Waiter''.<ref>{{cite book |title = Native Americans on Film: Conversations, Teaching, and Theory |editor1-last = Marubbio |editor1-first = M. Elise |editor2-last = Buffalohead |editor2-first = Eric L. |publisher = University Press of Kentucky |year = 2013 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Ob0gu0LgSpkC |isbn = 978-0-8131-3665-3 |page = 294 |via = Google Books }}</ref> 

Variants of cow tipping have also been seen in popular media such as the film ''[[Cars (film)|Cars]]'' (2006), which features a vehicular variant called [[tractor]]-tipping, and the video game ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'', which allows the character to sneak up on and tip over a Brahmin, the game's two-headed cow-like animal. The board game ''[[Battle Cattle]]'' is based on the practice, with heavily armed cows having "Tipping Defense Numbers."<ref name="Battle Cattle">{{Cite web |last=Cross |first=Todd |date=May 21, 1999 |title=Review of Battle Cattle |url=https://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/classic/rev_1709.phtml |access-date=2022-10-14 |website=RPGNet |archive-date=October 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221015045139/https://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/classic/rev_1709.phtml |url-status=live }}</ref>

In [[the Little Willies]] song "Lou Reed" from their 2006 [[The Little Willies (album)|self-titled debut album]], [[Norah Jones]] sings about a fictional event during which musician [[Lou Reed]] tips cows in Texas.<ref>{{cite news |title = Giving Us Willies: Norah Jones and Friends Go Country |first = Mary |last = Huhn |date = February 5, 2006 |newspaper = New York Post |url = https://nypost.com/2006/02/05/giving-us-willies-norah-jones-and-friends-go-country/ |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170705185154/http://nypost.com/2006/02/05/giving-us-willies-norah-jones-and-friends-go-country/ |archive-date = July 5, 2017 |df = mdy-all }}</ref> In another medium, ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'', a television show, uses cow tipping lore as an element to establish the nature of a rural character, [[Penny (The Big Bang Theory)|Penny]].<ref name="Farghaly Leone">{{cite book |last1 = Farghaly |first1 = Nadine |last2 = Leone |first2 = Eden |title = The Sexy Science of The Big Bang Theory: Essays on Gender in the Series |publisher = McFarland & Company |location = Jefferson, North Carolina |year = 2015 |isbn = 978-0-7864-7641-1 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=9US7CQAAQBAJ&pg=PA167 |access-date = April 8, 2016 |page = 167 |via = Google Books |archive-date = October 13, 2023 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20231013205301/https://books.google.com/books?id=9US7CQAAQBAJ&pg=PA167#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status = live }}</ref>

The term ''cow tipping'' is sometimes used as a [[figure of speech]] for pushing over something big. In ''A Giant Cow-Tipping by Savages'', author John Weir Close uses the term to describe contemporary [[mergers and acquisitions]].<ref>{{cite journal |last = Pinkerton |first = Stewart |title = Book Review: ''A Giant Cow-Tipping by Savages'', by John Weir Close |journal = The Wall Street Journal |publisher = Dow Jones & Company |url = https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303560204579248133982873374 |date = December 12, 2013 |access-date = November 24, 2015 |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151208060339/http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303560204579248133982873374 |archive-date = December 8, 2015 |df = mdy-all }}</ref> "Tipping [[Sacred cow (idiom)|sacred cows]]" has been used as a deliberate [[mixed metaphor]] in titles of books on Christian ministry and business management.<ref>{{citation |title = Tipping Over Sacred Cows |last = Fowlds |first = Sean |work = Ministry Today |date = April 30, 2007 |url = http://ministrytodaymag.com/index.php/ministry-today-archives/198-words/15106-tipping-over-sacred-cows |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151208173841/http://ministrytodaymag.com/index.php/ministry-today-archives/198-words/15106-tipping-over-sacred-cows |archive-date = December 8, 2015 |df = mdy-all }} (review of ''Change Your Church for Good: The Art of Sacred Cow Tipping'' by Brad Powell)</ref><ref>{{cite news |last = Breeden |first = Jake |title = 'Tipping Sacred Cows' Reveals Dangerous Work Behaviors |date = March 22, 2013 |publisher = CNBC |url = https://www.cnbc.com/2013/03/22/tipping-sacred-cows-reveals-dangerous-work-behaviors.html |access-date = May 19, 2016 |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160524101654/http://www.cnbc.com/id/100565152 |archive-date = May 24, 2016 |df = mdy-all }}</ref>
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