A 60-year old farmer in Kagawa prefecture got sick of wild boars eating his crop, so he carefully created 10 scarecrow characters—a family, with babies in strollers, kids on tricycles, etc—to keep them away.
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September 23, 2007
The Scarecrow Family
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