Thanks to the Derren Browne Blog for this one! AP Press – ‘High’ wallabies blamed for Aussie crop circles:
Wallabies snacking in opium poppy fields are getting “high as a kite” and hopping around creating crop circles. Tasmania is the world’s largest producer of legally-grown opium for the pharmaceutical market.
Tasmania attorney-general Lara Giddings told a budget hearing that she recently read about the wallabies in a brief on the state’s large poppy industry. She said: “We have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles. Then they crash. We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high.”
A manager for one of two Tasmanian companies licensed to take medicinal products from poppy straw said wildlife and livestock — including deer and sheep — that eat the poppies are known to “act weird”. Tasmanian Alkaloids field operations manager Rick Rockliff said: “There have been many stories about sheep that have eaten some of the poppies after harvesting and they all walk around in circles.” Tasmania supplies about 50% of the world’s raw material for morphine and related opiates. About 500 farmers grow the crop on 49,420 acres of land.
I am SO using that news item when I talk about crop circles in the future. Thank you, very much, Tasmania!
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BWARRR!!! Funny stuff – I wonder if sheep do this if they eat dope? I mean, it’d make sense – illicit drugs being nommed by sheep, sheep then get into field, farmer tells the cops ‘must be aliens, couldn’t be sheep on drugs…’ :p
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