Only In Australia: Police Pepper Spray Rogue Kangaroo

Mrs Phyllis Johnson had walked out from the small flat where she lives in Charleville, in outback Queensland, to hang up the washing, a Sunday routine.

'Suddenly this 'roo came crashing through all the clothes and came straight for me,' she said.

For the next terrifying five minutes Mrs Johnson desperately shielded herself from the big red kangaroo's kicks, at one stage managing to reach a broom to try to beat it away.

'I thought it was going to kill me,' the old lady said as she recovered in hospital in Charleville.

'I bashed it on the head but it kept going for me. Not even the dog would help – it was too frightened.'

Scratched and bleeding, she finally managed to escape by crawling like a commando across the back yard where she reached a post and used it to pull herself upright before retreating indoors.

There, she phoned her son to come to her rescue – because the kangaroo was still in the back yard.

Mrs Johnson’s son was unable to shoo the kangaroo away despite using a stick for protection, so the couple called the police.

Eventually, two officers from the local police station turned up – and the kangaroo turned on them.

They were forced to use capsicum spray to subdue the animal, which was in ‘panic mode,’ said Senior Sergeant Stephen Perkins, officer in charge of Charleville police station.

‘As it ran away from the officer who sprayed it, the kangaroo went for the other police officer and he also had to use his spray from getting hurt,’ said Sergeant Perkins.

‘You could say it’s one of the many unusual calls we get out here.’

Wildlife rangers were later trying to trap the kangaroo and are hoping to find out how it came to be in the vicinity – they are usually much further away from houses.

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