Let's do the math...

LOG CABIN + FROZEN COWS + EXPLOSIVES = BEEFSICLES

Yyyyaaaaaaaaaaayyyyy!!1!

/I got your beefsicle swingin'

magtec: pdieten: That's not a legend. Anyone with a dairy operation can tell you that it's true. Cattle won't walk down stairs.

the cows at our dairy operation walk down stairs.

"won't" and "can't" are different things. They don't like stairs. They can be forced to go and will survive the trip. But where I come from, given the choice between going down stairs and going in any other direction, they'd go anywhere besides the stairs.

In our parlor, when entering from the pen the options were straight ahead and down the stairs, or a left turn toward the milking stalls. Not one animal ever chose the stairs.

There is a joke here with the punchline "thinning the herd" but i'm unable to put the pieces together.

BillCo: Are these the only people in the world who have not seen Dynamite Whale? (new window)

I'm glad someone brought up the exploding whale. The reporter in the video actually wrote a book about the whole ordeal; it was pretty funny.

IIRC, a few whales beached themselves again near Newport/Florence. Safe to say that dynamite wasn't on the list of "how to get rid of the carcasses."

Better story here:

Link (new window)

ShoeKing: There is a joke here with the punchline "thinning the herd" but i'm unable to put the pieces together.

well, it was a bomb anyway.

Whistling Kitty Chaser: [i44.tinypic.com image 640x827]

Is that real? (honest question)

If it is real, WOW. Where did they do the study to figure this out? Unless the data came from a "wound assessment" paper.

I imagine the principle is essentially the same as ejecting chickens from a sand dune.

ritalinchild 54: Whistling Kitty Chaser: [i44.tinypic.com image 640x827]

Is that real? (honest question)

If it is real, WOW. Where did they do the study to figure this out? Unless the data came from a "wound assessment" paper.

Yeah, it's from an explosives manual.

I assume that they figured it out through practice. The Forest Service has been blowing up inconvenient carcasses for a long time.

BillCo: Are these the only people in the world who have not seen Dynamite Whale? (new window)

Stopped in for the exploding whale. Leaving satisfied.

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: Cows carry huge amounts of methane in their digestive systems. Freezing it, and then subjecting it to explosive heat sounds like a perfect recipe for napalm. Delicious hamburger napalm...

HOLD EVERYTHING!

METHANE is a major greenhouse gas! We have to keep those cows frozen whatever the cost!

MBooda: Walker: This is one of the strangest stories I've ever read....and I'm a longtime member of the Fark community.

1. How did cows get 11,000 feet up a mountain?

This is a high alpine pasture. They bring the cattle up in May and take them down in September. The rest of the time, the place is totally deserted.
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/apparently they forgot to bring them back down



Shoulda hired some fancy cowboys to go up there and watch over 'em.

dittybopper: [img395.imageshack.us image 210x320]

Most human problems can be solved by the appropriate charge of high explosives.



Even the Muppets know this.

According to Mythbusters the meat should be nice and tender.

Approves.

Please don't dynamite the taunting cow.

Before I read TFA, for some reason I thought the cows were inside an airplane.

Walker: 1. How did cows get 11,000 feet up a mountain?

They wanted to join 2 Miles High Club

I was expecting to see the

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here, leaving disappointed.

I thought that's what buzzards were for.

gopher321: Solution: Chainsaws, and leave em for the wolves

Along with motorized vehicles, chainsaws are prohibited in wilderness area.

Magorn: Whistling Kitty Chaser: [i44.tinypic.com image 640x827]

You need 20 POUNDS of boom-boom juice to deal with one farking horse? Exactly how fine a mist are they expecting to blow this into?

The title of the original document was Obliterating Animal Carcasses with Explosives.