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| What's more fun than two cows fighting? |
| 04.05.04 (4:11 am) [edit] |
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What's more fun than two cows fighting? TEN cows fighting!
We arrived around 11am to the cowfights in time for the first "Battle Royale" of the day! I thought we were going to this little event to see a handful of cows fight two at a time. Boy was I wrong! Turns out that this is a HUGE event (huge for this area anyway). There were thousands of the local Swiss there for this bovine battle. And 10 Americans.....
And the cows don't fight two at a time, oh no. They stick 10 pissed-off cows at a time into this big ring where they stomp their feet and posture for a few minutes while sizing up their opponents. THEN the fun begins - these cows lock horns, grunt, push, shove and try to intimidate their opponents into backing down until half of them are eliminated by the judges and the other half move on to the next level of competition.... It is mass confusion and fun as hell to watch!
Occasionally some of the cows would lose their bearings and charge through the piece of ROPE separating the fans from the cows. We were standing right up front (naturally) and as a result Kim Keyser ended up with about a liter of cow snot all over her jacket! I wish we had a picture of it - it was disgusting!
Speaking of disgusting - here's one for you:
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All of this entertainment PLUS beer and bratwurst just a few steps away at the booths behind us. It was kind of like Market Square Day but with pissed off cows instead of rude tourists from Massachusetts. Come to think of it, it was JUST LIKE Market Square Day.
If I live to be a hundred, I may never see as bizarre a cultural event as this one.....
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posted by: Timothy P. KuhKampf (reply)
post date: 04.05.04 (4:27 am)
Ahhhh the smell of bovine conflict on a clear Alpine morning, the soaring rivulets of cow sputum, and the spontaneous siting of an Edgar Winter/Kenny Rogers hybrid. Why would you ever want to leave?
posted by: Timothy P. KuhKampf (reply)
post date: 04.05.04 (4:27 am)
Ahhhh the smell of bovine conflict on a clear Alpine morning, the soaring rivulets of cow sputum, and the spontaneous siting of an Edgar Winter/Kenny Rogers hybrid. Why would you ever want to leave?
posted by: Beavis (reply)
post date: 04.05.04 (5:42 am)
poop... heh, heh, heh, heh. poop
posted by: Merlyn (reply)
post date: 04.05.04 (11:52 am)
THis is what they do in switzerland for fun??? Oh boy, only 9 months to go before we too can enjoy cow fights.
looked like fun... I think.
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