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

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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Red-necked wallaby, Macropus rufogriseus frutica.
A couple of years ago, when I was just starting on my graduate career, I decided to investigate the possibility of studying a feral population of rock wallabies that lives in one of the valleys above Honolulu.

tee hee hee

Tie me kangaroo down, sport. And then some.

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

By Jan-Maarten (not verified) on 25 Jun 2009 #permalink