More Crop Vandalism in Ohio

[Pyrrho]

http://www.newsnet5.com/news/2524748/detail.html

This time, in Bainbridge, Ohio. The farmer wants restitution; he has no insurance to cover the $1200 worth of soybeans he's lost in this latest act of vandalism.

The usual kooks have assembled to declare this incident "genuine". Maybe they can start collecting to help pay the farmer.

[Lord Kenneth]

What's sad is that 40% poll takers think it is from aliens, as opposed to 60% who don't.

That's still too much.

[Dilettante]

Way, way, way too much.

I wonder if those same people also think that the aliens left the graffiti on the overpass nearby. :)

[bjornart]

I suppose those obvious paths from the road and into the symbol of galactic peace and understanding were made by crop circle experts and weren't there when the circle was discovered...

[Starrman]

Apparently the 40% didn't bother to read the article and see what designs the 'signs from another galaxy' were:

One surrounds a triangle, another resembles a peace sign, and a third looks like a bull's-eye.

Tomorrow there's going to be a giant alien dart in the center of the bull's-eye.

Stupid poll question as well. Even if it was aliens, why would they have to come from 'another galaxy'? There are plenty of stars in our own galaxy they could have come from. Does that qualify as bad astronomy?

[Starrman]

Was there a discussion on this article earlier?

It was linked on the bottom of the article Pyrrho brought up.

Dodge County Man Sees Crop Circles Form (http://www.newsnet5.com/news/2342811/detail.html)

From the article:

"UFOs? Let them think what they do, but I saw this actually happen so my eyes know what I seen. So I know it was Mother Nature and nobody else," Arthur Rantala said.

[arcticpenguin]

From your link:
http://www.newsnet5.com/news/2524748/detail.html


Jeffrey Wilson of Dexter, Mich., and a team of independent researchers studied the formations this week and ruled out a hoax.

"The plants were all swirled down counter-clockwise, and several places were woven together," Wilson said. "Along the stems of soybean plants where the branches bend off, the leaf bases had been shriveled up and browned as if they had been subjected to some sort of heat damage."

"I think we're going to say that this one was authentic," he said.

Moron.

[bjornart]

I'd be willing to bet good money that you'd find a lot of 'leaf bases that had shriveled up and browned' on plants in the rest of the field, and neighbouring fields.

And of course it's authentic, how do you fake a big circle made of trampled stalks? :D

[Pyrrho]

Originally posted by Starrman
Was there a discussion on this article earlier?

It was linked on the bottom of the article Pyrrho brought up.

Dodge County Man Sees Crop Circles Form (http://www.newsnet5.com/news/2342811/detail.html)

From the article:


Hmm. I thought this was a new incident. Wouldn't surprise me if it was rehashed news. Oh, well.

[a_unique_person]

Originally posted by Dilettante
Way, way, way too much.

I wonder if those same people also think that the aliens left the graffiti on the overpass nearby. :)

Is that where it comes from. I thought it wasn't English.

[Chareen]

Originally posted by Pyrrho

The farmer wants restitution; he has no insurance to cover the $1200 worth of soybeans he's lost in this latest act of vandalism.


I really irks me when people want to be compensated for their own loss when they chose to not carry insurance. During the wild fires in Arizona a couple years ago people were asking the federal government to pay for the replacement of their homes because they didn't have insurance and the home, of course, was burned. I pay for my own insurance. I don't like to have to pay (via tax dollars) to replace this nimwit's home who didn't carry insurance.