June 13, 2012 – (Above) A replica of the fabled cow of Mrs. O’Leary launches toward Marina City and a successful leap from one raised end of the State Street Bridge to the other. (Click on image to view larger version.)

It would be a much better landing than the replica of the Picasso sculpture at Daley Plaza. Video shown Tuesday night on Conan O’Brien’s talk show confirms what we suspected. The Picasso struck the lip of the north end of the State Street Bridge on Sunday (see below) before falling into the Chicago River, or “into the briny deep” as O’Brien described it.

“It doesn’t have the aerodynamics of a sausage,” theorized Andy Richter, the show’s announcer,

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