Important reminder for this time of year.  By  kevinharrell (Read 692 times)

HAHA This is probably more what it looks like when a cow sits on your hood.



This one seems unbelievable too.  He should have flat tires.  His jacket looks right, but a cow?

Now here's a real "cow" story.

I got to do a couple cows when the Cow Parade was in KC. Afterwards, they auctioned most of the cows. For whatever reason, four were "donated" to one of the local schools (iow, they just showed up in their yard one day from the Parade folks).

Now, kids being kids, some of them stole one of the cows. The news covered it--and one of the remaining cows was my Koiow! The stolen cow mysteriously reappeared with the rest, probably because the policeman mentioned these were valued at $1000 each and it was considered grand theft--NOT worth it for a prank!

I called the school and told them I'd made the one cow. I knew it had been damaged while on display, so offered to fix it. They asked if I would help the stolen cow's artist fix hers first, as they thought to cash in on its temporary fame and auction it. I said sure, no prob, would love to help. I called that artist, several times. First she was going on vacation the next month, so would do it after and would call me. When she didn't call, I called her back. She kept putting me off with obvious excuses.

So I called the school back and explained the other artist would never commit to fixing her cow. I offered on my own, but they said at this point they just wanted the cows gone. They were currently in the custodian's room being a big space filler. "If you want your cow, it's yours. Just come and get it." I said I worked the same hours the school was open, otherwise I'd love my cow back. They told the head custodian, who called and said, "Where are you? I'll bring the cow to you!" He was that thrilled to have one less full-size cow sculpture to crawl around!

We got it all arranged. So there I was, at our front counter helping a customer, and this big pickup pulls up with my cow in the back. That's something you don't see ANY day! Got him unloaded and installed at the entrance of work. And that's another something you don't see often, a Koiow at the front door of a Kinko's. Funny to watch people's reactions as they saw the cow; funnier to see the folks who didn't notice the life-size cow-fish sculpture right at the entrance!

Well, after a few months, one of the AMs pointed at a child climbing on my cow and said, "That's a lawsuit waiting to happen. It has to go." Sad since it really was fun having my Koiow there. My best friend/coworker had a small pickup, and we loaded my cow into the flatbed (head out back, of course) and brought him home. I drove behind her, and got to see the other driver's reactions. No money can buy that fun! Surprising that nobody got in a wreck! LOTS of double-takes and pointing and just plain staring! Hee hee!

Here's the official link-- kansascity.cowparade.com/cow/detail/671 Sadly I have no pics from bringing home the Koiow.

>'Kat

Aw, heck...

That cow on the back of the bike... It was just deer-season, and the biker thought he had bagged a "two-point buck"... Happens all the time... LOL!

MOOOOO!

Leo (once saw a swell black and white Holstein cat) in Texas

that is the traction weight it was designed to handle well in high speed on snowy curvy roads . When the cow is removed you can not operate above 20 kph and must slow to 10 kph for turns .

John