A flock of sheep acting weirdly were found to have munched down on a crop of weed.
Wildfires, heatwaves and flooding had destroyed key grazing areas for the flock near Thessaly, Greece – so the sheep invaded a greenhouse which produces medicinal cannabis.
The owner told local TheNewspaper.gr last year that his crop had already been badly damaged by the extreme weather – and once inside, the sheep simply finished off what was left.
He said: ‘I don’t know if it’s for laughing or crying. We had the heatwave and we lost a lot of production.
‘We had the floods, we lost almost everything. And now this. The herd entered the greenhouse and ate what was left. I don’t know what to say, honestly.’
100kg of the crop was destroyed – and the sheep left feeling light headed.
The shepherd of the flock said his sheep began to exhibit ‘strange behaviour’ after returning.
He said: ‘They were jumping higher than goats, which never happens.’
In 2022, almost 200kg of weed vanished from a police station in India because rats ‘ate it’.
Officers were asked to produce the 195kg of drugs as evidence in a court case in Uttar Pradesh state but had nothing to show.
Officers said ‘fearless mice’ had ‘destroyed’ the stock while it was in storage.
Judge Sanjay Chaudhary said: ‘Rats are tiny animals and they have no fear of the police. It’s difficult to protect the drug from them.’
Using weed recreationally is criminalised in India but its extract bhang is legal and used for some Hindu practices.