We've all done it. You start out doing something in a very safe and sane manner and end up doing bizarre things that would make a great video for America's Funniest Videos.
You know you got a little too excited when......you have to wash cow manure off your headlights. It was one of the neighbor's cows who insists on walking directly through a standard barb wire fence. She must have no feeling whatsoever in her outer layer of skin. I've watched her do it. Anyway, she was in my pasture one too many times so I "gently" started to persuade her to depart by any path possible, including via the open gate leading to the county road. It was much like trying to push a rope uphill with a mind of its own. After cutting several "crop circles" and ejecting a few items off the flatbed, I put her on the front bumper a couple of times. Eventually, she returned to her favorite point of entry and proceeded to stroll through the fence. When I turned to get back in the truck after assessing the damage to the fence, I discovered both headlights were smeared with fresh green manure directly from the tail area of the old rip. Then I had to go round up the items that were supposed to be laying on the flatbed of the truck.
I'd like to watch you do that "roundup/herd" thing in walmart with a shopping cart.......
Sounds like Nate stalking deer.:-)
Don
My father-in-law was a rancher. Didn't have much patience herding cows. Used to bump them in the back with the pickup. I always thought he was going to break one of their legs. We're herding the cows down the road one day and he is in a hurry to get home. Keeps right on them. Finally he really gets after one of them. Big bump. She jumps ahead and gives a big ole kick and punches one of the head lights out of the truck. He gets out and looks at the damages, swears a bit. I'm sure he is going to mend his ways a bit. NOPE, goes right back after them, bumping them down the road, in a hurry to get home. Didn't change his ways one bit. I still get a chuckle every time I think of it. My dad would have give us a big ole bump if we hit the cows on purpose with the truck!
I think this guy got a little too excited as well....
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Whatever you do, do not click on the second video offered. It is 12 minutes of extremely stupid people forcing two bulls to fight each other with huge horns while in a big crowd of spectators.
What can I say? I like deer.
Our neighbor had an old "gimblin ass" bull, as my dad referred to him. He kept getting in with our cows, but the neighbor would wait for us to run him back home and fix the fence. My great uncle had given my dad his old 53 dodge coronet like this one, except not in nearly as good condition,
when he got too old to drive it, only had 40,000 miles on it in about 1965. Big old heavy car with "fluid" drive. Dad finally had enough, and got after the bull with that car with me and my brother in the back seat. After a few trips around the field the bull had his tongue hanging out and he jumped the fence, never to return. Got one headlight kicked out and bull hockey all over the hood, but man, it sure was fun trying to hang on while he dirt tracked that thing around in the field. Think my dad had a blast too.
