Gloglebag Posted June 25, 2009 Report Posted June 25, 2009 Stoned wallabies make crop circles Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around "as high as a kite", a government official has said. Lara Giddings, the attorney general for the island state of Tasmania, said the kangaroo-like marsupials were getting into poppy fields grown for medicine. She was reporting to a parliamentary hearing on security for poppy crops. Australia supplies about 50% of the world's legally-grown opium used to make morphine and other painkillers. "The one interesting bit that I found recently in one of my briefs on the poppy industry was that we have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles," Lara Giddings told the hearing. "Then they crash," she added. "We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high." Rick Rockliff, a spokesman for poppy producer Tasmanian Alkaloids, said the wallaby incursions were not very common, but other animals had also been spotted in the poppy fields acting unusually. "There have been many stories about sheep that have eaten some of the poppies after harvesting and they all walk around in circles," he added. Retired Tasmanian poppy farmer Lyndley Chopping also said he had seen strange behaviour from wallabies in his fields. "They would just come and eat some poppies and they would go away," he told ABC News. "They'd come back again and they would do their circle work in the paddock." Some people believe the mysterious circles that appear in fields in a number of countries are created by aliens. Others put them down to a human hoax. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8118257.stm Quote
Skjalg Posted June 26, 2009 Report Posted June 26, 2009 ":387ec6jb]erm... tl;dr its about some animals eating weed plants and getting high, then creating cropcircles because they are so high that all they do is run around in circles. (out on the weed-fields). Quote
kleinluka Posted June 29, 2009 Report Posted June 29, 2009 thats gotta be the worst explanation ever. wallabies don't live in the UK where a lot of crop circles have been seen. i think the mystery still remains unsolved.. nice picture of a wallaby tho. Quote
Evert Posted June 30, 2009 Report Posted June 30, 2009 In UK it's not wallabies, same principle tho http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okhz673PP-0 Quote
Cybbe Posted June 30, 2009 Report Posted June 30, 2009 thats gotta be the worst explanation ever. wallabies don't live in the UK where a lot of crop circles have been seen. i think the mystery still remains unsolved.. nice picture of a wallaby tho. They were only discussing the isolated case in australia, not anywhere else. Quote
⌐■_■ Posted July 5, 2009 Report Posted July 5, 2009 yeah... my fields over here in holland never have circles because i never allow my wallabis outside... Quote
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