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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 78 points 1 year 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?

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 105 points 1 year ago (4 children)

With a high rate of mooovement.

[–] doublejay1999@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] RinseDrizzle@midwest.social 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Think we milked this for all its worth

[–] EvilEyedPanda@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Naw I still got some beef with this story

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

Edit: Extra pun

[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Fetchez la vache!

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 15 points 1 year ago

and a lot of moooomentum

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

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

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.

[–] souperk@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

It's like it was hit by a train!

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year 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.

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

The Onion would never - could never - publish this.

[–] souperk@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] cone_zombie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Florida Man should really become Marvel's next superhero

[–] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Sounds like a normal day in India

[–] Akasazh 15 points 1 year 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...

[–] kaboom36@ani.social 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Elephant0991@lemmy.bleh.au 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Abird1620@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ur really milking those puns!

[–] ADTJ@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

How dairy make such a bad pun?

[–] reflex@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

An udder shame.