Heroin Addicted Junkie Parrots Terrorizing Farmers

March 28, 2019, 06:27 AM

Mars_Attacks

I wonder if they start talking smack.

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Poppy farmers in the state of Madhya Pradesh in India have reportedly run into some trouble while cultivating this season's crops. In addition to inconsistent rainfall putting a damper on things, flocks of persistent parrots — presumed to be addicted to opium — are rampaging through the poppy farms, sometimes making 40 visits a day to get their fix.

"One poppy flower gives around 20 to 25 grams of opium. But a large group of parrots feed on these plants around 30 to 40 times a day," one poppy cultivator in the Neemuch district of central India told Indian news site NDTV.com. "This affects the produce. These opium-addicted parrots are wreaking havoc."

According to NDTV, bird raids have become a daily menace in the poppy fields, and farmers claim to be sustaining significant crop losses thanks to these poppy-seeking parrots. Some birds have been filmed tearing into unripe poppy pods (where opium-rich milk resides), while others use their beaks and claws to snip off the plants at their stalks and fly away with entire intact pods. The Daily Mail reported that some birds have even trained themselves not to squawk when descending on the fields, swooping in and out like silent ninjas.

https://www.livescience.com/64...dEKnNQy0aKsgWEOJD0mA

March 28, 2019, 06:40 AM

asonie

Sounds like they need to relocate a flock or two to Afghanistan.

March 28, 2019, 06:47 AM

gearhounds

quote:
I wonder if they start talking smack

March 28, 2019, 06:57 AM

Broadside

Can someone smarter than me please queue up the Firefly captain .gif?

March 28, 2019, 07:00 AM

Broadside

This is my favorite part.

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...some birds have even trained themselves not to squawk when descending on the fields, swooping in and out like silent ninjas.

March 28, 2019, 08:02 AM

chellim1

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Firefly captain .gif?

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible."
-- Justice Janice Rogers Brown

"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth."
-rduckwor

March 28, 2019, 08:30 AM

sigfreund

As a picky point of clarification, raw opium isn’t heroin.

March 28, 2019, 11:49 AM

Mars_Attacks

quote:
Originally posted by sigfreund:
As a picky point of clarification, raw opium isn’t heroin.

So, you talkin smack?

March 28, 2019, 12:00 PM

sigfreund

quote:
Originally posted by Mars_Attacks:
quote:
Originally posted by sigfreund:
As a picky point of clarification, raw opium isn’t heroin.

So, you talkin smack?

Fool! I tol’ you it ain’t Big H!

March 28, 2019, 12:43 PM

Sig2340

I gots some works.

March 28, 2019, 02:02 PM

SIGnified

Highly suggest you correct/change title to say opium instead if heroin - very different things. Heroin iirc was developed by Bayer as a substitute for morphine in the late 19th century. It’s potential for OD vs medical use was far too narrow for effective treatment. Please don’t confuse the two.