Posted on 06/25/2009 10:19:10 PM PDT by FromLori
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.
We have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles. Then they crash
Lara Giddings, government official "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."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
So THAT’S how they come up with all of those elaborate designs.
lol and I thought it was Aliens!
Why don’t they just buy their poppies from Afghanistan?
I think I’ve partied with those wallabies before...
/johnny
Finally something to push Jacko off the news!
“Crop” circles? Could be a typo.
I’m surprised that eating raw poppies would provide much of a kick (no pun intended). You would think some processing would be necessary to produce much intoxication.
Obscure Dr. Demento comedy song reference. ;)
Processing it will yield different results such as codeine, morphine or heroin.
Para 1: the lede.
Para 2: the lede (barely) reworded.
Para 3: see Para 2
Para 4: see Para 2 or 3.
“Tell you the truth kid, I’ve been in this [poppy] field a long time, myself”...
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