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26th July 2011
02:50pm BST
Australian police pepper-sprayed a rogue red kangaroo that attacked a 94-year-old grandmother that was hanging up clothes on her washing line.
“I thought it was going to kill me,” the victim Ms Phyllis Johnson told The Courier-Mail.
“It was taller than me and it just ploughed through the clothes on the washing line straight for me.
“I happened to have a broom nearby and I just started swinging at it. I bashed it on the head but it kept going for me, not even the dog would help, it was too frightened,” added Ms Johnson.
Following a terrifying ‘roo rampage, brave Phyllis managed to crawl inside her home to safety, where her son rang police. Two police officers soon arrived and managed to subdue the crazed marsupial with pepper spray.
“One officer had to deploy his OC spray on the animal and it ran away and saw the other police officer out of the corner of its eye,” said Sergeant Stephen Perkins, head of police for Charleville, a Queensland state town.
“The other officer also had to deploy his spray to keep from getting hurt. After that, it hopped away from the scene,” he added, clearly dismayed that the officers were unable to tie the kangaroo down for sport.
“I used to feed [kangaroos] next door, give them some bread, and they’ve always been so gentle,” said a recovering Ms Johnson.
“They weren’t as big as that one, though and they’ve never gone for me like that.”
