"We have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles," Tasmania Attorney-General Lara Giddings was quote in The Mercury newspaper as saying. "Then they crash. We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high."
That’s right. She said “crop circles”.
She told a budget hearing yesterday 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. A manager for one of two Tasmanian companies licensed to take medicinal products from poppy straw told the newspaper that wildlife and livestock - including deer and sheep - that eat the poppies are known to "act weird." "There have been many stories about sheep that have eaten some of the poppies after harvesting and they all walk around in circles," Tasmanian Alkaloids field operations manager Rick Rockliff said. Tasmania supplies about 50 per cent of the world's raw material for morphine and related opiates. About 500 farmers grow the crop on 49,420 acres (20,000 hectares) of land.[Source: metro.co.uk]
Sorry nerds, aliens are not trying to communicate with you through symbols in weeds about which KISS album was the best or how to solve the mystery that is ‘girls’. It’s just some wildlife riding the white horse.
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