Man accidentally buys a cow off the internet while on sleeping pills
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Most of us probably think sleeping pills are there to help you sleep, not to make you spend a ton of money on stuff you don’t need, right?
Well. Their side effects definitely need investigating after one man almost managed to spend £3,000 on something ridiculous. And we say ‘almost’, because although he’d already sent payment over – he was lucky enough to stop it just before the transaction was finalised.
So, when said person was on sleeping pills, he thought he’d do a little internet shopping – at two in the morning.

No, he didn’t manage to dopily convince himself to buy a new phone or order a huge takeaway.
He ordered a yak.
Yeah, we’ll just give you a couple of minutes to try and maintain a straight enough face to continue reading.
Okay? Sure? Good.
So, this man was a ‘friend of a friend’ of a Reddit user who’d heard about the transaction and decided to post it online for the world to see.
Of course, it’s pretty hard to believe anyone could actually spend £3,000 on a yak in the early hours of the morning – especially when not even aware of it.
So, to back up his claims, he posted a screenshot of the transaction – including costs of the yak and also shipping – and it looks pretty legit.
Sure, it would be amazing (and absolutely hilarious) to wake up to a yak at the door, but sadly, it was just not meant to be – for this guy, anyway.
The Redditor updated us all, to let us know the man was no longer skint, and was happily cow-free:
I have an update on the Yak.
He managed to stop the payment at the credit card company. He also posted this on Facebook:
Oh I’m sure you would’ve all liked for me to just let them deliver it, but a) My apartment complex would boot my ass on to the street. The only thing worse than being homeless is being a homeless yak owner. b) My beagle Lucy would lose her motherf*cking mind. c) I’m an astrophysicist, not Baron Moneybags Von Richf*ck so I can’t just spend $3,000 on a yak to amuse the Internet.
It probably worked out for the best. Though we recommend he sees his doctor ASAP to ask him what the hell’s going on. Can you just imagine? ‘You gave me these pills to sleep, and I bought a f***ing yak, man.’