Crop circle
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/8080315.stm

I want to shake the man who made this by the hand, but what do you guys think?
( DarkSon a time and date will follow this username on, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 9:05, 26 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I think you wouldn't like it
If I carved that shape into the paintwork of your car.
This isn't much different.
( Cawl, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 9:09, Reply)

Eh!
It's done £600,000 worth of damage but they are not interested in finding out the culprit?
( girlinthehole, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 9:10, Reply)

They'll probably be able to sell pictures of it in their farm shop for years

(PsychoChomp, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 9:17, Reply)

It hasn't
The 600k has been caused by people going to look at it, not by the crop circle itself, and if you read the article, you'll note that the farmers really like it, they just want to stop people trampling all over their crops to look at it.
( DarkSon a time and date will follow this username on, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 9:40, Reply)

Crop circles
are such a massive waste of time and it seems to be only stupid hippy cunts that find them fascinating. I agree with Kaol even if he is a massive kaoltard.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 9:12, Reply)

You love it.
I'm from a "farming community", and grew up very much in the countryside.
If someone fucked with my crops I'd shotgun 'em in the back.
( Cawl, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 9:18, Reply)

Agreed
It's hard enough being in agriculture these days. Farmers make up the biggest single group of suicides.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 9:21, Reply)

Apart from
"People with a history of serious mental illness", I'd imagine.
( Cawl, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 9:24, Reply)

Farmers, by and large, are whinging bigots
so I don't have all that much sympathy for them, it's a hard job, but a lot of farmers have made a lot of money from pointless subsidys (sp?) and they don't half like to moan and complain.

Same as fishermen really, if fishing the amount you do is going to lead to having no fish left, then you're a stupid cunt to say that restricting the fishing is killing your business, it's clearly not a viable business, it's like Woolworths.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 9:28, Reply)

But...
I once got asked to marry a farmer's daughter.
Fact.
I'd've been sorted for money forever. But she looked like she should've been kept in a sty. And had a personality to match.
( Cawl, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 9:33, Reply)

sounds like your kinda woman

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 9:34, Reply)

Sadly not :(
I'll stick with my decent girlfriend, thanks.
( Cawl, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 9:38, Reply)

I prefer indecent ones

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 9:42, Reply)

Maybe decent was the wrong word.
Awesome maybe.
( Cawl, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 9:43, Reply)

I don't understand people who do that
Drunken laugh, or art? Whatever the case, the farmers didn't give permission for a part of their livelyhood to be destroyed.

While it looks good, and I know people who would defend it as artistic expression, this is going too far. People need that food to eat, and the farmers to live. As a criminal act, this is somewhere that the police should get involved, even though they'll never find the person and the farmers don't with to press charges.
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 9:13, Reply)

£600k my arse
If a single field of wheat were worth 600 grand, then farming would be the business to be in. Farmers may have the reputation of being rich, but they're not.

Edit - I'm not condoning the practice of making crop circles, but there's no way it caused that much damage.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 9:18, Reply)

That seems to be an informed opinion
based on a detailed knowledge of farming.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 9:21, Reply)

I was just about to post this
Agreed. I'd be amazed if the farm's annual turnover was 600K.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 9:23, Reply)

maybe they were growing ganja?
that'd make it about right ;-)
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 9:26, Reply)

Hahaha
Poppies as far as the eye can see!
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 9:27, Reply)

Wheat prices at the moment
are about £120-£130 per tonne.

Assuming 10 tonnes per hectare, a field of that size would yield £1300, maximum. Gross.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 9:24, Reply)

What about subsidies?
How could you tell the scale from that photo?
(PsychoChomp, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 9:26, Reply)

crop circle is 250m long by 60m wide
fairly easy to tell scale really, given that they've told you.

makes it cover about 1.5 hectares
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 9:27, Reply)

Sorry
by 'that size', I meant 1 hectare, not the size of the field in the photo.

But a hectare is about the size of a football field, and there's no way that field is over 450ha in size! Most farms aren't anywhere like 450ha.

Edit - what Vipros said.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 9:29, Reply)

Where the hell are you lot getting £600k from?
It says twice in the article, just £600
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 10:51, Reply)

They've changed it then
It said £600,000 earlier.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 12:19, Reply)