Clarion Content

Special thanks to one of our Ohio readers for sending this nugget our way. In the best explanation we have read yet for crop circles, from our 'truth is always able to outflank fiction' files, here is a delightful note originally discovered in the BBC News.

Dateline Tasmania: According to the BBC, "Retired Tasmanian poppy farmer Lyndley Chopping also said he had seen strange behaviour from wallabies in his fields." Wallabies are marsupial cousins of the kangaroo that live on the island state. The wallabies have been sneaking into the farmers fields and apparently grazing on opium poppies. Medicinal growing of opium is a farming industry in Tasmania.

Lara Giddings, the attorney general of Tasmania, said, "...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. Then they crash. We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high."

So aliens and/or smacked out wallabies, nice.

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