COW PIE BINGO: THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME

I'm including this only as an example of how the sillier forms of animal exploitation tend to knock themselves out, and are not worthy of the sputtering outrage we might expend on, say, seal-clubbing: The Vernon County spring festival in Wisconsin has canceled the traditional cow-pie bingo event for what the article knee-slappingly calls "liabullity reasons." It seems that "The decision was based - unfairly, says dairy farmer Rodney Johnson - on Baby's impressive but unexpected fence-vaulting escape from the bingo grid at last year's Syttende Mai Festival... Dorothy Jasperson, editor of the Westby Times, said the cow 'knocked down some stuff, scared some little kids and for insurance reasons, they decided to go away from cow pie bingo.'"

UPDATE 4/26: Hey, talk about your fence-vaulting escapes...