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[–] [email protected] 78 points 2 years ago (5 children)

"cow that was tossed 30m up in the air"

How hard do you have to hit a cow to knock it 30m into the air?

[–] [email protected] 105 points 2 years ago (4 children)

With a high rate of mooovement.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He had no chance. It’s was coming the udder way.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Think we milked this for all its worth

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Naw I still got some beef with this story

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Maybe we should steer this conversation away from the puns and back on track.

Edit: Extra pun

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Fetchez la vache!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

and a lot of moooomentum

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

First assume a spherical cow in a frictionless vacuum...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Trains have a fuck ton of momentum, and this was an express train. It likely also had a cattle guard on the front which could explain the air it got.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

It's like it was hit by a train!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

The average train in India is 24 coaches long, plus a loco and a guard van. Let's say the loco is 100 tonnes and the coaches and van are 20 tonnes each. That's 600 tonnes moving at around 100 km/hr. I can totally believe the cow flying that high.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago

The Onion would never - could never - publish this.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Florida Man: Challenge accepted! It's going to be legendary!!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Florida Man should really become Marvel's next superhero

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Sounds like a normal day in India

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Tldr: the cow was launched by a train and flew 30 meters.

Hoe the cow gained more impetus than the train itself isn't explained.

Seeing a cow is a holy animal in India I'm wondering about the karmic balance of this situation...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Beginning to wonder if those Bollywood physics were accurate after all...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Kind of expected "the police who were also relieving themselves..."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ur really milking those puns!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

How dairy make such a bad pun?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

An udder shame.