Posted on 08/02/2011 12:34:49 PM PDT by Da Bilge Troll
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
There should be a federal agency to oversee the activities of stoned marsupials.
I cannot remember who keeps the “Stoned wallabies make crop circles” ping list.
The Stoned Wallabies .....would make a great name for a rock band..............
Psalm 144: There should be a federal agency to oversee the activities of stoned marsupials.
I hereby declare myself Director of the Lost Wallaby Reclamation Administration; a proud Division of the Department of Redundancy Department.
So there.
May 8, 2009 – US government-funded study sends researchers to cruise six bars in ... to find out why gay men engage in risky sexual behavior while drunk.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/08/government-funds-study-gay-sex-argentina-bars/
close enough?
Slingsandarrows................
There is. Its called the GOP. They are also members.
I wonder if Barney Frank took that specific project in hand.
He backed it...
After reading about fake debt Armageddon all week, I’m ready to join them.
Is there any truth to the rumor that he’s sitting on it?
You owe Dave Barry $1... ;-)
I thought that rumor got spiked...
Just remember gay marriage is for suckers.
Watch me wallaby's feed, mateNo wonder that they're a dangerous breed, since they're hopped on on opium.
Watch me wallaby's feed,
They're a dangerous breed, mate
So watch me wallaby's feed
Altogether now!
CHORUS:
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down
WhenEVER the subject of crop circles comes up, my first thought has always been “It’s gotta be STONED WALLABIES!.
this really takes the wind out of the sails of the mystics/ conspiracy theorists, though........
Do you remember that song being censored? I do! One word had to be changed.
Is there nothing that isn’t blamed on the stoned wallabies? (which would be a great name for a band...)
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