Cow Gets Stuck in Pool. But Where's the Par-tay?

Cow rescued from pool

It’s funny how all of the animated “party animals” in movies like Over the Hedge, Barnyard, and Happy Feet are so cheeky on the big screen – but put them in a human environment in real life? Well, they can be downright boring.

Take this cow who got stuck in someone’s backyard pool in Massachusetts, for example. Is he wearing shades, sipping on a cocktail, and kicking-back while some witty commentary flows from his tongue? No. He’s just standing there, motionless; occasionally flicking away flies with his ears, until the humans arrive with a ramp and he is reluctantly escorted out. At this point, the kid in the video is probably wondering why this cow isn’t more like the ones in the movies; making sarcastic remarks in surfer lingo – or at least embracing the chance to go “human-tipping” in a “clever” role-reversal. If he did have a personality, like the ones so enthusiastically assigned to animals in the herd of indistinguishable animated flicks, it would probably be that of a genius playing us for fools, bored by human drones.

Even the cop in the video seems to be sedated by the cow’s hypnotic, calming qualities; speaking in a hushed tone until the anti-climactic hauling of the cow from the pool. After that the screen just fades to black – and we are naturally left to assume that the cow jumps up on his hind legs, grabs the cops gun, and takes off in his car for a shoot-em-up bank heist parrrrrrr-TAY!