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"High as a kite" wallabies to blame for Tasmanian crop circles

Category: BiologyFrivolityNeuroscienceScienceScience journalismYikes!
Posted on: June 25, 2009 11:46 AM, by Jessica Palmer

This may be the best BBC story EVER. Seriously:

Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around "as high as a kite", a government official has said.

"We have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles," Lara Giddings told the hearing.

"Then they crash," she added. "We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high."

I have nothing to add. At a complete loss here. I can't even come up with a bad pun.

PS - Oops, I forgot to say this was courtesy of reader Jake! Thanks Jake :)

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1

tee hee hee

Posted by: LindaCO | June 25, 2009 1:19 PM

2

Tie me kangaroo down, sport. And then some.

Posted by: Jon H | June 25, 2009 2:34 PM

3

The comments on the BBC piece are hilarious too! -> How's 'Trippy Skippy' for a bad pun?

Posted by: Jan-Maarten | June 26, 2009 3:10 AM

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