University of Wisconsin hockey player Kyle Klubertanz and former hockey player Jeffrey Slinde were each fined $200 for tipping over a cow last August in front of the Kohl Center, where the Badgers play their home games. But Wisconsin's hockey program need not worry about being targeted by animal activists, the way the Atlanta Falcons will be this year. The cow these players tipped was a sculpture. The cow they tipped was one of the more than 100 sculpted cows in Madison last summer for the Wisconsin CowParade.
Both Slinde and Klubertanz were charged with a misdemeanor count of criminal damage to property, but those charges were lowered today to county disorderly conduct, a forfeiture action which leaves the pair with no criminal record. Along with the fine and court costs, each has already finished 30 hours of community service by volunteering at youth hockey camps, said attorney John Hyland, who represented Klubertanz.
As Randball notes, when police asked the players why they did it, they gave the oldest explanation in the book: "We were stupid."
