Wallabies snacking in opium poppy fields are getting “high as a kite” and hopping around creating crop circles. Tasmania is the world’s largest producer of legally-grown opium for the pharmaceutical market. Tasmania attorney-general Lara Giddings told a budget hearing that she recently read about the wallabies in a brief on the state’s large poppy industry. She said: “We have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles. Then they crash. We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high.”
A manager for one of two Tasmanian companies licensed to take medicinal products from poppy straw said wildlife and livestock — including deer and sheep — that eat the poppies are known to “act weird”. Tasmanian Alkaloids field operations manager Rick Rockliff said: “There have been many stories about sheep that have eaten some of the poppies after harvesting and they all walk around in circles.” Tasmania supplies about 50% of the world’s raw material for morphine and related opiates. About 500 farmers grow the crop on 49,420 acres of land.
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that’s quite funny.
I’m thinking it might be Skippy the ‘bushed’ kangaroo. I always thought that there was a link between crop circle conspiracy theories and opium use, but I never made the marsupial connection
What are wallabies like with the munchies?
Heaven to some among us … (I needed to plan a holiday anyway, and hey, where you run around in circles doesn’t really matter, does it?).
I did not know that the stuff was having this effect as well when you eat it, but according to this article ..
So, I wonder .. what is there in these supposed grain fields in the UK???? We now know what causes the circles … Let’s get on top of this cover up of, ofcourse, the UK again. Oh, that’s Derren doing that in your country. The national drug? The Brown Stuff … The angelic effect of his master. That’s why you drew him as an angel? Oh well … I did not know it was a national symbol. Sorry .. geezzz …
Hopefully they will not need to shoot the animals.
Ahaha, thats the best news story I’ve ever heard.
I can just imagine a kid being like “CROP CIRCLES! WE HAVE ALIENS” And their parents will be like “Don’t be stupid Timmy its just those junkie wallabies again” and then the kid will be like “Yeah…. SURE~”
LOL @ Sarah!
This certainly beats those two English guys who were creating them.
Seems a lot of our wildlife gets stoned in some way or other. I believe some of our parrots get high on some of the nectar they eat and Emus seems to go nuts every now and then as well.
the wallabies have also been seen stealing car stereos and spare-changing on corners.
I’ve yet to see any pictures of these crop circles. I don’t imagine that there crop circles are very interesting… I could be wrong.
Is this really true? Seems like a joke to me.