Show grasshoppers act like humans someone who threw away a partly filled quart bottle of whisky near fresno calif is responsible for plunging several thousand of the nearby grasshopper population into the depths of drunkenness carl hughes a deputy agricultural commissioner picked up the bottle in a field near the highway and found it jammed full of grasshoppers all of them hilariously intoxicated and trying to go places with as ag little tie success as a human drank 2 A few who could get out odthe of the miniature bar had completely lost their equilibrium lind and they took a a nose dive whenever they tried to spread their wings out they came caime one at a time and wobbled around like sailors on dry land Sometime sone would fold up with his nose hose in the dirt just plain cockeyed drunk and lay there the early arrivals went outside tor for a breath br ath of air and when they returned for just one more drink the bottle was as seething with hoppers young and old and all of them four sheets in the wind and quite content to stay there |