'Stoned wallabies make crop circles'

[The Dragon Master]

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



Lara Giddings, the attorney general for the island state of Tasmania, said the kangaroo-like marsupials were getting into poppy fields grown for medicine.



She was reporting to a parliamentary hearing on security for poppy crops.



Australia supplies about 50% of the world's legally-grown opium used to make morphine and other painkillers.

Link and rest of article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8118257.stm

 

[Jazzy]

While my first instinct was to laugh, I don't find this the least bit funny. These wallabies can overdose and die the same as a human can. It's a shame there is no way to keep them out of the poppy fields.

 

[Chatsie]

I agree Jazzy, it's not funny. If and when a way to keep them

away from the fields 'is' found, you can be sure that it won't

be because of the animal's welfare though, it will be purely

to protect the crops.

 

[Evil Eye]

Government officials say things like as high as a kite?



Isn't it rather odd they can get in at all? If I had a field full of drugs, I'd put up a fence... a big fence.