I have just watched a programme about Crop Circles (research - perhaps one can appear near the Forgotten Village) and while I was fascinated by all the people. One man who broadcast a taped confession that he had faked something which many Crop Circle specialists still believe is real, and they believe that the confession is more fake (human nature is very odd and I keep an open mind, but you have to wonder). There were people talking about UFO's and energies and radiation. There were people who created crop circles. There were psychologists who studied those who believed in crop circles. One thing struck me.
At no point did any farmer come on and say the words, 'criminal damage'. It was alluded to as those people who go out and create crop circles admit that but never claim a particular circle. Possibly to maintain a mystique, possibly to avoid appearing before a magistrate. In the documentary they created an amazingly complicated and incredibly beautiful crop circle in a very short time - in a field where there was permission from the farmer! It sounded more like the exception than the rule.
After all the bad weather we have been having, and all the problems with feeding the world, I look at those circles and I wonder - can those parts of the field be harvested? Can they be salvaged? If they can't, how much money lost to the farmer is represented in those designs? How many loaves of bread could be made? I like to take things to the concrete.
I shall be doing further research.
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