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Stoned Wallabies Make Crop Circles
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."
As someone who has smoked a lot of opium in northern Afghanistan and the High Pamirs, I just have to ask: why are these wallabies hopping around? Opium is about the most soporific drug I could think of.
This makes that show Rocko's Modern Life make a LOT more sense.
then is the desire to alter your consciousness with drugs a naturally occurring one? Does the drug war make sense anymore?
And why the hell didn't I give marijuana a try when I was in college? What the hell was I so scared of? Of course, now I'm old, and I don't have access to pot, so I can't try it.
Was this suppose to be a post on 'The Onion' ? Maybe an editor was 'high' and posted on the wrong site...
of Pauly Shore in a Kangaroo suit?
This would make a good idle story rather than the 5 that have been stuck on idle off to the right for the last month.
That being said, that's pretty hilarious. Easy to find videos on youtube of various wild animals getting stoned or usually drunk. Fermented fruit seems to be popular that way. The drunk elephants are a riot!
I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
Only it was drunk cows rolling around in fields to make circles in grass.
Tsukasa: All I really want, is to be left alone...
This explains why kangaroos look so weird. They're aliens!
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
I've had to explain this to my colleagues, but the Australian Rugby Union team's nickname is the "Wallabies". So the article has an delicious pun ;-)
You know that part in Alien when the alien emerges from the guy's stomach? Well, we all know that kangaroos keep their young in pouches near the stomach. Coincidence? I think not.
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Reading the comments on that article I just couldn't help being reminded.....
/. is trying to regain standing, maybe become as relevant as fark so far as news is concerned. Sad state of affairs, really - but they brought it on themselves.
Screw having a picture of the animal, I want to see the crop circles.
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I wouldn't call it a natural desire, because the animals aren't born with it. But most every animal that has experienced consciousness alteration wants more of it. Birds eat fermented fruits and berries and get so drunk they can't fly. Most dogs love beer. Many pets like the effects of marijuana. But my all time favorite drunken animal story is the one about the derailed corn train and the drunken bears. A trainload of corn derailed in the Rockies, where cleanup was next to impossible. After the corn fermented, bears would come from miles around to eat the fermented corn, and get so drunk they'd pass out on the tracks. So the railroad company buried the corn. And the bears dug it up. The company sprayed it with nasty tasting stuff. The bears didn't care. Finally, they covered it in diesel fuel and burned it. The bears ate what was left.
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Responsible wallabies don't let their friends drive under the influence.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
It's the Kangaroos, kangaroos are running a major drug racket. They hooked the wallabies onto the stuff and when they couldn't find their regular dealer, the wallabies went berserk in an opium field.
The Australian police should check kangaroo pouches for their stash. I heard they train joeys to separate and bag the opium while in their mother's pouches. The joeys can also make count money and change, there's some grainy footage on youtube of a wallaby putting a fistful of money in a kangaroo's pouch and coming out with a plastic baggie, the kangaroo was looking the other way. Last I heard the 'Kangaroo boxer' mafia was in a territory feud with the 'Bloody Dingo' gang.
Speaking of Fark, they covered this yesterday: http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4469699
I can't believe you don't know what a Hasemalphaginnojinglanaporphomism is.
You couldn't possibly head to the Home Depot gardening section to purchase a narcotic, could you? I have a friend that claims to get high from smoking or making tea out of poppies seeds from Home Depot. I don't believe him.
The War on Drugs has been lost. Time to move on.
There is a problem with wallabies eating poppy crops in Tasmania. The real story is that the plants are very immature and there is no alkaloid in them. There are circular patches being made in the crops, but this is due to the normal feeding behaviour of wallabies and not because they are bouncing around in circles stoned. No wallabies are falling to the ground stoned. The farmers are setting up patches of preferred feed plants outside the poppy fields to prevent it happening in the future, as Tasmania is one of the leading exporters of opium for medical use, and they want to diminish the impact on revenue.
Did you know the human brain contains receptors just for cannabinoids, eg some of the major compounds in cannabis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabinoid_receptor
How did we get those? The only logical explanation is that human beings and our ancestors (down to the monkeys and all the animals before that) have been using marijuana for so long that it literally resulted human evolution and cannabinoids becoming part of our dna.
This is why the prohibition of marjuana will never work, the plant existing long before anything remotely homo sapien existed, and fits in so well with our biology that its one of the only substances which its possible to not consume enough to kill you (you can even die off drinking too much water).
You almost have to wonder if everyone just did what the potheads said and "chill and hit this", if people would generally be happier as a lacking component of our brain chemistry would be satisfied (besides as a result the euphoria directly caused by the substance). Obviously so long as people didn't sink into the stoner stereotype, burning out and not doing anything with their lives, but contrary to what the media and our government wants you to think, most people who tried, or every regularly use cannabis, are far from losers (as evident by the fact that nearly half the world has used cannabis at one point).
Some kangaroos get really big, like three meters tall and as strong as a lion. I have been close to animals like that in the bush and it is safe as long as you leave them alone. But I wouldn't like to find out too late that the animal was high.
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