Crop Circles Made by Stoned Wallabies

Posted by Alex in Animal, Paranormal, Travel & Places on June 26, 2009 at 1:22 am

Forget aliens, the real culprits behind mysterious crop circles in Tasmania are far weirder: stoned wallabies!

"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," Lara Giddings told the hearing.

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

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Wombat Poo Paper

Posted by Alex in Animal on April 19, 2009 at 11:33 am

Those wily Tasmanians have hit upon a gem of an idea that lets them:

a) get rid of stuff no one wanted (i.e. wombat poo)
b) make lots of money doing it (make it into paper)
c) from people they don’t like (tourists)

Creative Paper manager Darren Simpson says the manufacturing process can be rather unpleasant.

"When we are boiling it, it does smell horrific as you can imagine, but once it has been sterilised and rinsed properly there’s no scent left to it. If anything it just gives you a nice organic smell," he said.

He added that it was the tourists themselves who came up with the wombat idea.

"As people were coming through and we were showing them the samples of our paper, they would throw questions at you like ‘can you make it from sheep poo or can you make it from koalas?’. And the one that kept popping up more than any other was the wombat."

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Previously on Neatorama: Tiny Flower Turns Pig Poop into Fuel, Elephant Dung Paper

 
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