CBS NEWS
Authorities said an escaped kangaroo was re-captured in Canada on Monday after four days on the loose — but not before the animal punched a police officer in the face.
Officers responded to a report of a kangaroo on the run in Oshawa, a city on the Lake Ontario shoreline east of Toronto, as videos surfaced online that appeared to show the marsupial hopping along public roads in that area. Having been instructed on the safest ways to capture a kangaroo, the officers approached and grabbed her by her tail, which was effective in the end, the Durham Regional Police said in a news release.
“The kangaroo gave up and surrendered peacefully to police officers,” the release said. “Her four day adventure has come to an end and she will continue on with her journey to Quebec in the near future.”
But, before the kangaroo was given a ride back to the zoo for medical exams in one of the police department’s K-9 kennels, she did not immediately acquiesce to the officers’ attempts to capture her, Staff Sgt. Chris Boileau told CBC Toronto. Boileau said officers initially spotted the missing animal on a rural property in Oshawa at around 3 a.m. Monday and monitored her for almost four hours. Although the kangaroo’s handlers advised police to grab her tail, when they did, she punched one officer in the face.
“It’s something that he and his platoon mates will be remembering for the rest of their careers,” Boileau told CBC Toronto.
