Comments on: Moonshiners' Cow Shoes

By: Vanwall Green

Vanwall Green — Thu, 17 May 2012 01:58:00 +0000

Mr. Holmes last ‘official’ chronicle was in 1914, where he was quite hale and hearty, so I have no doubt he may have read this particular issue of The Evening Independent with a knowing smile, received in his occasional packages that Dr. Watson would send him for amusement, when he took a break from his beekeeping.

By: Blank Snag

Blank Snag — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:51:00 +0000

Made me think of The Andy Griffith Show: “The Cow Thief “http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0512571/

By: zarray

zarray — Wed, 16 May 2012 09:28:00 +0000

Running a still seems like one of those things that takes more than one person to do.

By: noah django

noah django — Wed, 16 May 2012 08:02:00 +0000

MOOOOOOOOOrrrs!

Holmes would have been A) across the Atlantic and B) long dead, of course, by the time these shoes were made.

By: UrbanUndead

UrbanUndead — Wed, 16 May 2012 04:25:00 +0000

This is just getting baaa-aa-aad :B

By: Vanwall Green

Vanwall Green — Wed, 16 May 2012 02:18:00 +0000

“The Adventure of the Priory School” – Sherlock Holmes had to figure out the mystery of the cattle tracks to solve the murder on the moors.

By: ocker3

ocker3 — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:05:00 +0000

Of course, it would allow you to walk across a field without leaving too-obvious tracks. Having a few cows around is hardly a suspicious activity.

By: Bahumat

Bahumat — Tue, 15 May 2012 22:59:00 +0000

Can’t wait to see this on Lackadaisy Cats.

By: awjt

awjt — Tue, 15 May 2012 20:51:00 +0000

…wearing your sheep shoes, no doubt, and feeling sheepish.

By: Henry Pootel

Henry Pootel — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:51:00 +0000

“Cow Shoe Boogie” needs to be a song from that era..

By: Red Pill Junkie

Red Pill Junkie — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:48:00 +0000

A Bigfoot shoe would have also done the trick ;)

By: jarmstrong

jarmstrong — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:30:00 +0000

Makin’ the hoof prints wasn’t so tough. But those cow pies? Lemme tell ya…

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:22:00 +0000

“It’s the cops! Let’s hoof it out of here! “

By: Incipient Madness

Incipient Madness — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:21:00 +0000

Moonshiners also invented the adjustable pneumatic suspensions we see in today’s lowriders. They used the extra boost from the pneumatics to keep the ridgerunners (cars modified for delivering moonshine) for riding low on their shocks. Police often stopped cars that were riding low from heavy loads.

By: Tarliman

Tarliman — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:21:00 +0000

The Jacobites (among others) used boots with horseshoes attached to trick the English soldiers. This is a very old trick. Still works sometimes. A revenuer who knew anything about cattle would be suspicious seeing a single cow going into the woods.

By: relawson

relawson — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:19:00 +0000

Yeah, but, what if they also walked BACKWARD? Then it would have the added bonus of looking as if they walked the other way.

By: glatt1

glatt1 — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:18:00 +0000

I guess if this worked, it means the revenuers were city slickers who wouldn’t know how the pressure of a cow’s hoof is distributed.

By: UrbanUndead

UrbanUndead — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:14:00 +0000

Putting the “moo” in… oh never mind…

*slouches away, bad puns spilling from pockets*