Stoned wallabies make crop circles

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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.

More: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090625/od_nm/us_wallabies_odd

 
 
Poppy heads, eh?

[havocmom]

1. Mamas, don't let yer babies grow up to be junkies

[AnnieBW]

2. Maybe that explains the wallaby that mauled my husband?

When we were in Sydney, we went to this wildlife park. A wallaby attached herself to my leg and wouldn't let go. Then my husband stepped in, and she went nuts on him. Scratched his arm, bit him, etc. We thought that she might have been in heat. But maybe it was just the Oxy that he had in his pocket? :evilgrin:

[jobycom]

4. You reminded him of his mother. He hates his mother.

[marmar]

3. I guess they were all "hopped up"

:P

[jobycom]

5. Someone has to say.

[abq e streeter]

6. stiffer sentencing and zero tolerance for those drug-using wallabies would clear up this problem

[cagesoulman]

7. Like this wallaby that is clearly a user

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VraDcC8yWD0&feature=related

[abq e streeter]

8. shocking --I blame declining family values myself--and you know who's fault that is? LIBERALS

[cagesoulman]

9. I hear a few wallabies have headed to Argentina this week

Boom Boom, Out go the lights!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ci6i6a421U