Boy wins mooing contest

When it comes to mooing, 10-year-old Austin Siok is an expert. The Dyer Intermediate School fifth-grader last week won an annual mooing contest at the Wisconsin State Fair because he sounded more like a real cow than the other about 80 contest participants. And since then he hasn't stopped mooing, said Austin's mother, Dawn Siok, 47, of Burlington.

"He's pretty much mooed everywhere we've went now," said Siok, an administrative assistant for Kohl's. "He mooed at the bank and he mooed at Kohls. Everyone wants to hear him moo."



"The look on his face when he won," Siok said. "His mouth just dropped to the ground. He was very surprised that he won. It got me a little teary-eyed."

For his win, Austin got $1,000, a cow print jacket, a golden cowbell and a year's worth of free subs from Cousins Subs, which sponsored the contest. He also got a bit of fame. "They interviewed me on two or three radio stations and I was on the news," Austin said. "It's cool because it feels like I'm famous and you can even look at my name in Google and it comes up."

You can see and hear Austin in action here.