Odin's Wrath Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Bravo to the BBC for the greatest headline of the year... ................ ............. .............. 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 Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8118257.stm ....and read the comments at the bottom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suebeedoo Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Bravo to the BBC for the greatest headline of the year. That article is from June 2009. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odin's Wrath Posted August 2, 2011 Author Share Posted August 2, 2011 That article is from June 2009. Good spot! It was at the top of the BBC's news-site most read though which is strange Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fibutton Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 I don't care when it was from, it's made me laugh........what an image i have in my head now, poor wallabies (and sheep).... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chem1st Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 If people were high on heroin and making crop circles, just imagine the uproar in the dailymail! When animals get smacked off their tits people laugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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