"True believers" and the facts.

Figures. The FTB's (foaming true believers) just can't accept that their pet beliefs are a pile of horse manure.

Bored teens try to claim crop circles
They say they're behind hoax, but some have doubts

Steve Rubenstein, Erin Hallissy, Chronicle Staff Writers
Saturday, July 12, 2003

Four teenage boys admitted on Friday what the world is not ready to hear: There are no space aliens or flying saucers in Solano County.

The four boys, ages 17 and 18, said they were the ones who created the dozen crop circles that have drawn hundreds of psychics, sages, visionaries and other people in pointy hats to a wheat field west of Fairfield.

But confessing to the prank turned out to be not nearly so difficult as persuading the world to believe their confession. Even the local district attorney has his doubts.

"Hey, if people don't believe us, they don't believe us," said one of the boys, an 18-year-old sporting a beard and a tattoo. "There's nothing I can do about it."

At an afternoon news conference just down the road from the crop circles, the boys -- local high school students who insisted on remaining anonymous -- swore they did it. They brought their original planning sketches for the circles. They brought the boards and ropes used to make them. They showed off the scratches the wheat stalks had left on their legs. One boy even brought his mother as a character witness.

And then they used their boards and ropes to flatten a small patch of weeds to demonstrate their skills.

"It isn't hard at all. It's fun," said another of the confessed pranksters, a 17-year-old boy who wore his New York Yankees ball cap backward. "We were bored. There's nothing else to do around here."

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

They're wearing tinfoil hats in the photos!!!

LOLOLOL!!!!

Words cannot describe the lunacy of this...and those tinfoil hats are absolutely PRECIOUS.

"Paulson said he thinks someone from outside the area must have pulled off the stunt because a local person could not have kept it a secret for two weeks. "

Except, of course, that the kids haven't really been keeping a secret, but have been telling.

That's billiant!!

Pulling a BIG ONE over the crop-circle idiots!

Wish these kids were mine. Bet they're a lot of fun!

Some of them are damn amazing. I've always concentrated on the beauty of them rather than the conspiracy. The teens may have done it, aliens might of...shite JULIE NEWMAR might have done them but they look damn cool!

http://www.realcropcircles.com/main.shtml

This is not the first time people have made crop circles, but it's the first time I have ever heard of anyone not believing the people who made them.

Wonder what astrologers have to say about crops circles? :evilfrown:

There was a group of guys in England who made "crop circles" for years, causing all kinds of whack jobs like the idiot with the crystal in the article to come out of the woodwork.

Finally they admitted to how they did it, showed how, etc.
The "crop circle believers" came up with all kinds of excuses, including that worn-out cliche, "gov't conspiracy to cover up the facts."

Excellent article here about it.
http://skepdic.com/cropcirc.html

As to the astrologers, they have nothing to worry about.
Plenty of willing suckers to fill their pockets.

and make an avatar of it.

...and the kids are right...not much to do and its easy to get bored.

Pretty area, though...