SYDNEY, Australia - Wallabies snacking in Tasmania's legally grown opium poppy fields are getting "high as a kite" and hopping around in circles, trampling the crops, a state official said.
Tasmania Attorney-General Lara Giddings told a budget hearing Wednesday that she had recently read about the kangaroo-like marsupials' antics in a brief on the state's large poppy industry. Tasmania is the world's largest producer of legally grown opium for the pharmaceutical market.
"We have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles," The Mercury newspaper quoted Giddings as telling the hearing. "Then they crash. We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high."
When I saw this headline as I was scanning the morning headlines on my iPod it amused me. I mean come on...Wallabies making crop circles? That's priceless! The little buggers eat a few opium plants, and of course we all know what opium does, and then they wreak havoc in the fields. They get discombobulated and hop around in circles, thus making crop circles.
How.
Amusing.
Is.
That??!?!?!?
OK, I'll admit I'm amused easily, but still! ;oP
Found via MSNBC.
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