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May 08 2008 4 Comments

Loitering lookouts

With still another month or so to go before Japan’s burgeoning rice crops are transferred from the relative safety of the nation’s nurseries, to the far more perilous paddy fields, the country’s large and meticulously attired mob of migrant scarecrows are left with little to do to but wile away the time looking sullen.

Japanese scarecrow

Or scary even.

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  1. Tommy says

    5/8/2008 at 8:29 pm

    I’d go for menacing. 😉

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  2. Neil Duckett says

    5/8/2008 at 9:00 pm

    That’s a pisser Lee …. brilliant sense of humor man!

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  3. NightUlf says

    5/9/2008 at 1:25 am

    So that is where Michael Jackson has been!

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  4. Lee says

    5/9/2008 at 9:38 am

    Thanks Neil.

    Sadly, the plight of Japan’s ever-growing number of out of work scarecrows is far from funny though. A situation made even worse by the effects of global warming.

    In fact, with no regular income and a lack of access to even basic health care, some experts are predicting that the vast majority of the country’s scarecrows could well be stuffed.

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