Plea over jellyfish crop circle
A 250m-long crop circle of a jellyfish has appeared on farmland causing up to £600,000 worth of damage.
The owners of the land in Oxfordshire have urged visitors to stay away from the circle, which is also 60m (197ft) wide, to avoid further crop damage. Sally Ann Spence and husband Bill, who own Berry Croft Farm near Ashbury, say hundreds of visitors have been trampling over their field.
They said it is "beautiful" but the flattened crops are now "useless". "We have not given permission for people to walk on our land," Mrs Spence said."The pattern has already cost a great deal of damage - possibly about £600,000. "People can get a better view from the air."
She said she was not concerned about tracking down the culprits and the incident has not been reported to the police. It is not the first time crop circles have appeared on their land, they said, but the jellyfish is one of the most spectacular.
Crop circlers warned 'stay away'
People who create crop circles are being urged to consider how their actions affect farmers' livelihoods.
The patterns started to appear again in Kent and Sussex with the onset of summer and now cereal farmers are urging the pranksters to stop. The National Farmers' Union (NFU) said damage is made worse by so called crop circle tourists who trample on crops making them impossible to harvest.
The NFU believes the circles are man-made and not created supernaturally.
1 comment:
To my eye, the tentacles look very much like they were man made, and the rest of it does not have that characteristic. Its sort of like the difference between drawing wavy lines by hand with a mouse in a drawing program, and one where the computer mathematically draws a circle, wave or some other patterned shape.
So i would say that the hucksters came in and added their shoddy bit after the real deal.
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