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Mystery solved!; wtf wallabies
Topic Started: Jun 26 2009, 08:09 PM (107 Views)
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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.

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

(Reporting by Michael Perry; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani)

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Why don't they put THAT on the 6pm news? :P
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They mentioned this in passing on BBC News :P
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How many poppy seed bagels will I have to eat before I can make a crop circle? :lol:
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Jack Tarr,Jun 27 2009
05:47 PM
How many poppy seed bagels will I have to eat before I can make a crop circle?  :lol:

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Could only happen in Australia really couldn't it! :P :rolleyes: :lol:
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Nordrige,Jun 28 2009
08:46 AM
Could only happen in Australia really couldn't it! :P  :rolleyes: :lol:

It depends... see, it happened in Tasmania, and Taswegians take a little while to put two and two together. :rolleyes:
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I bet this is just those 1950s dwelling Tasmanians blaming their opium consumption on innocent wallabies! :rolleyes:
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