Stoned Wallabies Make Crop Circles in Tasmania

by Jordan Yerman | June 25, 2009 at 08:59 am
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Stoned wallabies are responsible for making crop circles in the Australian island state of Tasmania, according to government officials. The marsupials (related to the kangaroo) are getting, and I quote, "high as a kite" on poppies grown in government-regulated fields.

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... Then they crash.
Lara Giddings, Atty General, Tasmania

This sets a questionable example for the joeys, but solves at least one crop circle mystery. 

Lara Giddings, the attorney general for the island state of Tasmania, said the kangaroo-like marsupials were getting into poppy fields grown for medicine.

Australia produces half of the world's supply of legal opium, used in morphine production.

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Maireid Sullivan

Top story! ...and the comments following the story are really hilarious!

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