Trans-Mundane: Crop circles in Solano County

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I must share these. In order:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/07/03/MN250605.DTL

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/07/03/MN250605.DTL

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/07/12/MN289428.DTL

I particularly like Balestra, the farmer.

" Sooner or later, he says, what is
left of the wheat will have to be harvested, but
Balestra doesn’t have the heart to bust up the party
just yet. Besides, Balestra said, his regular harvester
is reluctant to run his equipment through a field full of
zealots.

              "All my friends say I ought to put up a fence and
              charge people $2 a head, but that's not my way,"
              Balestra said. "I'm enjoying this. People lying down
              in my wheat field, and wrapping their heads in foil. It's
              great." 

              Balestra, who runs a fruit stand just north of the
              wheat field, is selling souvenir crop circle shirts as a
              public service because, he said, his customers
              insisted. 

              He smiles as strangers depart the field carrying away
              his wheat. A stalk of wheat is not worth fussing over,
              especially with people clutching it so fervently. 

              "What can I do about it?" he said. "It used to be my
              wheat. Now it's their wheat."
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I also love it in the last link that Balestra is selling t-shirts. And I like the fact that one of the kids who claims to have done it produced his mom as a character witness.

Ah, the good ol’ American way! :smiley:

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I had never previously thought of crop circles as a cash crop (no pun intended).

But, apparently, they can be.

4

What? There are no space aliens or flying saucers in Solano County? Oh, the horror. I was about to book the next flight out of Sydney. I rather fancied getting some of that healing energy to make my asthma better. :wink:

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Well, if you want to give it a try, be sure to wrap your head in foil. Apparently it makes the contact better with the astral forces.

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Here is a twist.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/07/12/CIRCLES.TMP

“Boys say they’re force behind crop circles but police think Fairfield teenagers’ story is full of holes”

Go figure.