Friday, June 26, 2009

Poppy field fantasies: Stoned wallabies make crop circles!

 SYDNEY (Reuters) – The mystery of crop circles in poppy fields in Australia's southern island state of Tasmania has been solved -- stoned wallabies are eating the poppy heads and hopping around in circles.

"We have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles," the state's top lawmaker Lara Giddings told local media on Thursday.

"Then they crash. We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high," she said.

Many people believe crop circles that mysteriously appear in fields around the world are created by aliens.

Poppy producer Tasmanian Alkaloids said livestock which ate the poppies were known to "act weird" -- including deer and sheep in the state's highlands.

"There have been many stories about sheep that have eaten some of the poppies after harvesting and they all walk around in circles," said field operations manager Rick Rockliff.

Australia produces about 50 percent of the world's raw material for morphine and related opiates.

(Reporting by Michael Perry; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani)

image via Google Images

2 comments:

Carl Hand-up said...

Give me a break Dave..perhaps you have had a little too much time in the Bunker?

Stoned Wallablies...making crop circles no less ... what's next UFO's sighted in Mac Town ...I think we just identied one.

casinononaams said...

We also provide a rush order service which can be completed in as little time as 3 hours if needed. All our writing is guaranteed to be pay4essay completed on time as part of our satisfaction policy or your money back.

Trump's Lowest Grift Ever Saved for Holy Week

This is a story about how the devil's puppet, aka Donald Trump, mocked Christianity by selling a book combining the Bible, the Constitu...