Thursday, April 21, 2005

Only in Wisconsin

I was intrigued by this unusual headline in today's online version of the Wisconsin State Journal (the Madison paper I check periodically):

"Hopping holstein shuts down cow pie bingo"

The story goes something like this. The town of Westby (a small town outside of Madison) has apparently cancelled the annual cow pie bingo fundraiser at this year's Syttende Mai festival because of insurance reasons. At last year's festival, Baby, a 4-year old Holstein, jumped the fence to escape the bingo grid which apparently "scared some kids". Perhaps cows just aren't meant to play bingo.