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Stoned Wallabies Make Crop Circles

Posted by samzenpus on from the trippity-hop dept.

It's the tripnaut! writes "The BBC reports that Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around 'as high as a kite', a government official has said. '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,' says Lara Giddings, the attorney general for the island state of Tasmania. 'Then they crash,' she added."

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  1. Re:If there animals are getting high by Chris+Burke · · Score: 4, Insightful

    is the desire to alter your consciousness with drugs a naturally occurring one?

    Ever seen a cat around catnip? Lemme put it this way: The question you're asking doesn't occur to them, they just know they love catnip.

    And why the hell didn't I give marijuana a try when I was in college?

    I hear ya man, especially since where I went to college it was about as close to legal as you can get in the States. When the penalty is a ticket less severe than for double parking, how much enforcement do you think there would be? But nooooo, I had to actually study and be a good student in college...

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  2. Where's the picture of the circles? by DigitalReverend · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Screw having a picture of the animal, I want to see the crop circles.

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  3. Re:Who hops around on opium? by gardyloo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It might be the same as the effects of catnip in humans (a mild sedative) vs. on cats (usually not a sedative).