Stoned Wallabies making crop circles
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From Tasmania.
TASMANIAN wallabies are breaking into the states poppy fields and getting high, the State Government has revealed.

The strange occurrence that was revealed in a Budget Estimates hearing, has also solved what some growers say has spurred a campfire legend about mysterious crop circles that appear in the state’s poppy paddocks.

In true X-Files style, Attorney-General Lara Giddings said the drugged out wallabies had been found hopping around in circles squashing the poppies, creating the formations – and hence solving the mystery.

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