Here’s how cow poop can put a smile on your face

ADMIT it, it is not every day that you can win a lot of money when a cow poops into a block you purchased with a raffle ticket.

I know, it sounds a bit confusing, but let me explain.

Let’s start here … The Kimberley Pirates Tug of War Club has been really busy trying to raise funds to send a delegation to the International Club Championships in Retie Belgium which will be held on May 19-20 this year.

Due to the financial costs that such a trip will demand, in order to get the team there a plan had to be made to collect money. The plan the club came up with is something that initially you’d instinctively want to pull your nose up for.

But perhaps you should not be so hasty.

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The Pirates Tug of War Club has decided to raise funds by selling tickets to their very own ‘beesloop’ competition which was originally scheduled to be held next week, on Saturday, February 18 but after deliberations, management decided to extend the sale of tickets until March 18 so that as many tickets as possible could be sold.

And for those scratching their heads right now, here’s how the ‘beesloop’ works.

The club is currently busy selling the tickets mentioned earlier, hoping to sell a total of 1,000 of them at R350 each. On the day of the beesloop, the club’s field is going to be sectioned off into 1,000 one-square-metre blocks.

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Next, the tickets are going to be jumbled up and randomly placed on the field – one ticket per block.

Then the ‘bees’, actually a local cow, will be let loose onto the field to walk around freely for a while. Now as everyone knows, there are scientists who claim that climate change is being driven by cows, or more specifically their dung.

And that’s the point of this exercise … whenever the cow decides to drop a pile of ozone-destroying organic waste, if that pile of manure lands in the block with, let’s say, your ticket, that lucky ticket holder will win 20 percent of the total sales of the raffle.

It goes without saying that the more tickets you buy, the better your chances are of winning.

Now, let’s carefully do the maths on that one. If all 1000 tickets are sold and what’s going to be Kimberley’s most cheered-on cow drops a pile of dung in one lucky ticket-holder’s square, that lucky entrant will walk away from the Pirates Field with R70,000 in their hand.

Not bad, is it?

By Wednesday afternoon the ticket sales were standing at 465, meaning that currently there is a potential prize of R32,000 waiting for one ticket holder. But this also means that there is plenty of time for you to get yourself a ticket and put yourself in line for a much-needed cash injection.

However, if all the tickets are not sold, the field will then be divided into the number of tickets that were sold, giving our beloved bovine a smaller target to hit.

Here’s the deal, to win the SA Lottery your chances are one in 8,145,060. But in a few weeks’ time, you could be sitting with better odds of obtaining some financial relief. To this end, the Kimberley Pirates Tug of War Club would like to encourage everybody to buy a ticket.

With each ticket sold, the team is one step closer to being able to represent their country internationally in a sport that they love so much.

So, if you would like to buy a ticket, please contact Dawie on 072 184 9232. He will be glad to assist you.

I promise … this is not a “bullshit” story.