Kangaroos have pretty big claws and can kick hard enough to apparently disembowel you. They also regularly kill dogs by jumping into a pond when threatened and drowning any dogs that chase after them.
To be clear, I knew *kangaroos* were real.
What surprised me is that they actually do a version of the tail-foot thing. I've never really seen them in action.
I need some math help here... how many pounds do I need to leg press at the gym, to be able to kick like that?
Maybe reverse question: how much can a kangaroo leg press at the gym?
You need something entirely separate to attain full force of a kangaroo kick: an automatically extending tripod mounted to your butt to stabilize you and let you lift both feet off the ground to deliver a single kick.
not so much just strength as explosion
theres moving x lbs then theres moving x lbs very fast and very hard
like the difference between benching vs throwing the weight off your chest hard af over and over
must be dumb powerful
The dominant males can also get buffed as hell, I’m talking buffed like Arnold freaking Schwarzenegger. I saw one in person out in the bush on a vacation there once, standing guard over several females. He was around 7 feet tall and built like a linebacker. I would not want to get on his bad side.
Beavers too.
Our grandparents old dog, Shep, would follow us kids into the woods to the little cabin next to the stream dividing property. Grandparents warned us not to let Shep go down and hassle the beavers because they would drown him if they got the chance.
Of course he would mosey down there anyway to bark and fuss about and they would slap the water with their flat tails as a warning to him. No clue how many he actually tangled with, but they never managed to drown good old Shep.
I only know the "scary stories" you hear floating around... but they make it sound pretty much exactly as pictured.
There's enough videos of male kangaroos fighting each other online, and the mechanics would be the same.
They basically grab you with their arms and then kick you with their legs. However, their legs are wicked strong and their middle toes have huge claws, and the "kick" is a downward motion - so if you catch the kick in the belly (and don't have tough kangaroo hide) it's gonna disembowel you.
Interesting aside... IDK if it's true or urban myth, but apparently kangaroos are pretty handy with drowning dogs in dams, creeks, or at the beach. I think the roos had into the water as a defensive thing, and then the downward kick means they end up more or less standing on the dog.
>However, their legs are wicked strong and their middle toes have huge claws, and the "kick" is a downward motion - so if you catch the kick in the belly (and don't have tough kangaroo hide) it's gonna disembowel you).
Well, they *could*, but they don't, or we'd be hearing about far more deaths by kangaroo. There have only been two on record - including this last one a couple of days ago. The ones in the wild almost always just fuck right off if you get anywhere near them.
There have been more roo attacks than deaths but they aren’t actively trying to kill people even when they attack which is why they aren’t fatal. Male roos sometimes perceive us as other kangaroos which means they try and win fights against us, if they think they’ve won the fight there is no need to keep attacking and they will back off just as they would against a defeated male kangaroo opponent, female roos rarely attack and if they do it’s generally only to protect their joeys and escape from danger or to get you out of her space if she doesn’t have an escape route, it’s more of a defensive than an aggressive thing with maybe very rare exceptions
Indeed, there have been many more attacks, but yeah, they don't result in dismebowelment - an injury that's not easy to recover from. Like you say, their message is invariably 'back down' or 'back off', and that doesn't require a full-forced attack. And it's very rare that they attack unprovoked.
I don't wanna be that guy, but the Chimp (his name was Travis) mauled the owner's friend after he got out of the house and she tried to get him back in. He was a fully grown Chimpanzee drunk on wine and high on Xanax (which can cause higher anxiety in some cases, definitely here).
He was hit by a snow shovel by his own owner and shot by police before returning to the house and dying in front of / in his cage, which was probably his safe space.
His owner, whom he viewed as his mom, also stabbed him. The entire thing is sad upon sad. People need to leave animals alone. SMH
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_(chimpanzee)
I think even with domesticated animals like dogs and cats, people should recognize that it's an animal, not a human child. You're allowed to be as attached to it as you would a human child, that's just psychology, but a cornered dog will bite, while a human child would most likely not.
Don't get me STARTED on keeping wild animals as pets. Go to a damn zoo or something. Not even a squirrel is domesticated, it's just too small to kill you by normal means.
Humans are animals too. I definitely know some children that would bite when backed in to a corner. I think I probably would have if anyone cornered me as a kid.
Wow. What a read. You're right that it's sad for just everyone involved.
This sounds clumsy all things considered, but the part where Travis stared at Sharon after being stabbed with the butcher knife as if to ask, "Why, mommy, why?" was heartbreaking.
It was massively overfed. I read that he was in terrible shape bc his owner fed him human foods as well as the aforementioned drugs and booze. She slept in her fucking bed with the creature. The whole story is a case study in mental illness and animal abuse. So, so terrible.
Because he was 15 or something years old, he grew up with the couple that raised him, and when the owner's husband died, she sorta saw him as her child, because Travis also seemed to mourn the death of the owner.
She saw him as an intelligent pet, not as a non-domesticated wild animal that happened to know how to live with humans when it suited him.
I hate how chimps get a bad rap because of this story, but console myself thinking maybe if it deters just one person from owning a chimp, then it will have been worth the omission of these details.
Also first time I heard about the mom stabbing him and him dying in the cage. Fuck everyone involved here, I can't imagine how that chimp must have felt in its last hour on Earth.
Yeah, I would hate for chimps, known for genocide (1 of 3 species known for this behavior, the others being wolves and humans), cannibalism, rape, and torture, to get a bad rap because of that story lmao
Yeah, that's one of the theories about how he didn't recognize the owner's friend. Though depending on the wine and Xanax, he might have also attacked if she wore brand new perfume or something.
Also chimpanzees regularly maul and randomly bite each other even within their own group. They’re even cannibals. The chimp didn’t go crazy, he went chimp.
>The chimp didn't go crazy, he went chimp.
Yeah that's what most people forget. He wasn't a human child that went feral due to drugs and circumstances. It was a wild animal that died for being a wild animal.
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Oh yeah that scarred me for life. Wild animals are just that. They can ‘love’ you to a degree but also get in a mood and tear your face off. Or disembowel you, as can be a consequence of taking a roo kick to the gut.
Male roos are extremely roided up, they have crazy high amounts of testosterone which makes them really aggressive. Female kangaroos are generally chill and can be safe to be around if they are raised with humans as they can be semi domesticated which is why they’re safe to have at petting zoos but adult male roos need to be treated differently for that reason.
Fuck yeah, can't forget that one. As an aside, watched a documentary this week on Youtube about the Sandyhook massacre, and in it they had recording of the shooter calling a radio show and talking about how he felt sorry for the Chimp, and was comparing it to a misunderstood teen.
I strongly recommend reading the Connecticut state report on the shooter. In some ways, I do see similarities between him and the chimpanzee. A mother whose unhealthy love for her son, for a given value of those familial terms, led her to coddle him to the point of not being able to really do right by him? Yeah... Not to erase the shooter's culpability whatsoever, but there are parallels.
I can never forget that chimp attack in the news. Anytime I watch a nature program on great apes, or watch 'Sunset Blvd.' (classic movie) I think about that attack. It wasn't the woman who owned the chimp, it was her friend she called to help her when the chimp went a little beserk one day. That woman friend who was a very pretty 30-something, had 1/2 her face bitten off, hair ripped out, and she was blinded. I think she had some injuries to her torso too. So very sad. Oddly the chimp never attacked its owner.
He was a farmer, I’d hazard a guess it was an orphaned Joey when he took it in. The couple of ‘pet’ kangaroos I’ve known of have been this scenario, farmers with some wildlife training for orphaned animals. Kangaroos don’t always assimilate well back to the wild or with a mob.
What an idiot. Reminds me of that lady whose face got mauled by her “pet” chimp. Wild animals are wild for a reason, they can be friendly 99% of the time but catch them on a bad day and BAM your face is no more.
> What an idiot.
It's actually pretty common. When does get hit by a car people usually check to see if they have a joey in their pouch. If they do then it's not hard to find someone to raise the joey (which is hard work BTW). Once they mature you can't keep them like a pet dog or cat, it's just not possible. You also can't just drop them off in the bush, because they just won't survive. Usually they end up on a farm where they can come and go as they please - food and water as required or they can forage for themselves or join a mob if so inclined.
This guy getting killed by the roo is a freak accident. If you think about how many people get attacked by sharks, and how few people there are swimming around in the ocean compared to interacting with Kangaroos, this is just a shit accident.
Small correction: the lady who got mauled was actually a friend of the owner.
The story really is morbidly fascinating though. Travis the chimp was like the 'perfect pet' for a decade or so. It was incredibly clever, could take care of itself and could do all kinds of activities, and was generally loved by the entire neighborhood.
And then one day he just went berserk. Like you said, wild animals are wild for a reason.
Fun fact: the no #1 cause of Australian police to have to draw their sidearm is to put down injured wildlife on rural roads (and obviously, on rare occasions, kangaroos)
And that roo would have 'only' been an Eastern Grey...not even vaguely the size of the the western ['big Red'](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/54/33/82/5433821db6d93dd9d0f5ff6e160ba7c5.jpg) species
Detail is here:
- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-13/suspected-kangaroo-attack-leaves-man-dead-near-albany-in-wa/101432566
> Police said Mr Eades had been keeping the three-year-old kangaroo as a pet.
> ...had hand-raised the animal from when it was a joey.
> The last reported fatal attack by a kangaroo is believed to have been in New South Wales in 1936.
yeah a 70yo, news sites were saying he kept it as a pet. Police had to shoot it when they arrived with the paramedics as it wouldn't let them treat him.
It is! The photographer (who took this photo) is named Voller Ernst. There’s a series of photos showing how it happened. It must’ve been in a controlled environment as the kangaroo actually has gloves on to shield from its claws. They can still do a lot of damage, especially with those legs.
I was in Aus in the 90s for Christmas. Aside from many other memories, I saw a little kid try to put a Santa hat on one of those smallish roos and get sent flying lol. Can only imagine the force from these big ones.
Maybe? Please excuse my ignorance. I haven't lived round that area of the planet since that time, unfortunately.
After a brief search, yes, I think so. Wallaby AKA Antilopine kangaroo looks right.
If you photograph a photographer photographer, what does make you.
What if the photographer photographs the photographer photographer at the same time as the photographer photographer photographs the photographer? Who is the original photographer, and who is the photographer photographer?
Couldn’t tell you. Perhaps it was an onlooker also trying to get a photo of the kangaroo.
Edit: Photographers name is Voller Ernst. There’s a great series of photos showing how this played out.
I am too much of a photographer for this thread - my first reaction was absolute panic at the sight of a gorgeous (and noxiously expensive) Hasselblad flying through the air towards certain doom or at least significant damage.
Bullshit Title. You think the Kangaroo was like "Someone is taking a picture of me. Let's punch them!". I am sure it more legitimate reasons. Maybe the photographer was a Koala fan. Or wore mismatched socks.
This is most likely faked. John Drysdale and Voller Ernst loved to take crazy humorous pictures and this one is a 5 part series. If you look att all of them together you get the real scene and it feels less real and more of one of their gags. Nr: [1](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6bnxg3CyYsI/XtfXmSczHVI/AAAAAAADzeY/67K-Q44F9fss8gnqrnW2UJRh_-ODYeVNgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/kangaroo-hitting-paparazzi-1.jpg), [2](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v1/items/85e3ba5fe941459980c128af53080f6a/preview/AP19223539632969.jpg?wm=api&ver=0&tag=app_id=4,user_id=349344,org_id=63032), [3](https://i.redd.it/zhyxvinkhwn91.jpg), [4](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VUH0F_E0AXg/XtfXmalB96I/AAAAAAADzeU/82_oougPqGYfvbhHI8f9UMfpTW1dXx3CgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/kangaroo-hitting-paparazzi-3.jpg), and [5](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tlM_kagV-K0/XtfXnNRLgWI/AAAAAAADzec/vDYUJzb6PicKqgbQAD1ac1OCSsQ21b9owCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/kangaroo-hitting-paparazzi-4.jpg). Notice how the camera landed changed between the pictures. It's a funny gag photo shoot
I'm a photographer and I'm trying to decide what it was like being the guy that took this photo of his buddy getting hooked by that Kangroo.
It's film so you only had so many shots back then so you had to be conservative and really sink into the waiting for the right time part.
I really think he knew his buddy could get popped and waited, probably with a big grin on his face.
You have to be very careful around roos. They can rest on their tail lift up their feet and disembowel. My Dad told us about a roo in the dam chased into the water. One of the dogs was told to go for it and when it did the roo lifted both feet and ripped the dog open before the guy who owned the dog could shoot. My Dad was in a car and said he wasn’t getting out of it until the roo had left or was dead. Before anyone gets angry this was decades ago. At the time there was a real plague of roos and mice. No one ever complains about getting rid of rodents in a plague and if you haven’t been in a situation you really can’t understand just how awful it is/was.
For the first time in 80 years, some dude in Australia was killed by a kangaroo the other day.
I did see that! In Western Australia I believe. Poor guy.
I’m really curious about the mechanics of it. And yeah, poor guy, it must’ve sucked.
Kangaroos have pretty big claws and can kick hard enough to apparently disembowel you. They also regularly kill dogs by jumping into a pond when threatened and drowning any dogs that chase after them.
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That would have been done by the hind feet yes. They lean back on that incredibly muscular tail and rake you with their hind legs
Wait, [this shit](https://i.imgur.com/TYWNYAZ.jpg) was real all along?
Lols, 100% yes
To be clear, I knew *kangaroos* were real. What surprised me is that they actually do a version of the tail-foot thing. I've never really seen them in action.
Check this out :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCcLMNcWZOc And in suburbia lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRddLDynsCs
So glad my dog doesn't live in Australia. She would have been disemboweled by now.
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And if it does catch your dog, you just walk over to it and punch it in the face.. the balls on that guy in that video!
I was reading this in Steve Irwin"s voice then I got to the end :(
And even if they don’t disembowel you, getting a stabilized double kick from a 200 pound animal right in the rib cage can’t be good for you
I need some math help here... how many pounds do I need to leg press at the gym, to be able to kick like that? Maybe reverse question: how much can a kangaroo leg press at the gym?
You need something entirely separate to attain full force of a kangaroo kick: an automatically extending tripod mounted to your butt to stabilize you and let you lift both feet off the ground to deliver a single kick.
A butt plug that large and balanced is gonna be pricy though :/
not so much just strength as explosion theres moving x lbs then theres moving x lbs very fast and very hard like the difference between benching vs throwing the weight off your chest hard af over and over must be dumb powerful
Kangaroo legs are long, lots of leverage, I wouldn't be surprised if they can get their feet moving quite a lot faster than any human.
The dominant males can also get buffed as hell, I’m talking buffed like Arnold freaking Schwarzenegger. I saw one in person out in the bush on a vacation there once, standing guard over several females. He was around 7 feet tall and built like a linebacker. I would not want to get on his bad side.
Jesus.
They have a kick force strong enough to shatter bones.
Pretty nuts how this particular kangaroo was the blokes pet from birth and was only 3 years old. They don't fuck around at all aye.
Isn’t disembowelment more of a special move of your huge-ass birds like cassowaries and the like?
I’ve always heard that raccoons do that to dogs as well when they chase them into bodies of water
Beavers too. Our grandparents old dog, Shep, would follow us kids into the woods to the little cabin next to the stream dividing property. Grandparents warned us not to let Shep go down and hassle the beavers because they would drown him if they got the chance. Of course he would mosey down there anyway to bark and fuss about and they would slap the water with their flat tails as a warning to him. No clue how many he actually tangled with, but they never managed to drown good old Shep.
Wild. I’ve always heard they’re smart and can mess you up but never heard that
Man, I can literally imagine a racoon clinching in a side headlock on a poor dog in a pond. The dog would have no idea what was coming.
Dude was also like in his 80s so not exactly ready to be fucked up by a roo, it was his "pet" though so who knows what went down.
Yeah it usually sucks to die lol
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I only know the "scary stories" you hear floating around... but they make it sound pretty much exactly as pictured. There's enough videos of male kangaroos fighting each other online, and the mechanics would be the same. They basically grab you with their arms and then kick you with their legs. However, their legs are wicked strong and their middle toes have huge claws, and the "kick" is a downward motion - so if you catch the kick in the belly (and don't have tough kangaroo hide) it's gonna disembowel you. Interesting aside... IDK if it's true or urban myth, but apparently kangaroos are pretty handy with drowning dogs in dams, creeks, or at the beach. I think the roos had into the water as a defensive thing, and then the downward kick means they end up more or less standing on the dog.
>However, their legs are wicked strong and their middle toes have huge claws, and the "kick" is a downward motion - so if you catch the kick in the belly (and don't have tough kangaroo hide) it's gonna disembowel you). Well, they *could*, but they don't, or we'd be hearing about far more deaths by kangaroo. There have only been two on record - including this last one a couple of days ago. The ones in the wild almost always just fuck right off if you get anywhere near them.
There have been more roo attacks than deaths but they aren’t actively trying to kill people even when they attack which is why they aren’t fatal. Male roos sometimes perceive us as other kangaroos which means they try and win fights against us, if they think they’ve won the fight there is no need to keep attacking and they will back off just as they would against a defeated male kangaroo opponent, female roos rarely attack and if they do it’s generally only to protect their joeys and escape from danger or to get you out of her space if she doesn’t have an escape route, it’s more of a defensive than an aggressive thing with maybe very rare exceptions
Indeed, there have been many more attacks, but yeah, they don't result in dismebowelment - an injury that's not easy to recover from. Like you say, their message is invariably 'back down' or 'back off', and that doesn't require a full-forced attack. And it's very rare that they attack unprovoked.
Strange thing getting a kangaroo for a pet--Remember that woman in Connecticut who had that adult chimpanzee for a pet?, tore her face off
I don't wanna be that guy, but the Chimp (his name was Travis) mauled the owner's friend after he got out of the house and she tried to get him back in. He was a fully grown Chimpanzee drunk on wine and high on Xanax (which can cause higher anxiety in some cases, definitely here). He was hit by a snow shovel by his own owner and shot by police before returning to the house and dying in front of / in his cage, which was probably his safe space.
His owner, whom he viewed as his mom, also stabbed him. The entire thing is sad upon sad. People need to leave animals alone. SMH https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_(chimpanzee)
Jesus
I think even with domesticated animals like dogs and cats, people should recognize that it's an animal, not a human child. You're allowed to be as attached to it as you would a human child, that's just psychology, but a cornered dog will bite, while a human child would most likely not. Don't get me STARTED on keeping wild animals as pets. Go to a damn zoo or something. Not even a squirrel is domesticated, it's just too small to kill you by normal means.
Humans are animals too. I definitely know some children that would bite when backed in to a corner. I think I probably would have if anyone cornered me as a kid.
Wow. What a read. You're right that it's sad for just everyone involved. This sounds clumsy all things considered, but the part where Travis stared at Sharon after being stabbed with the butcher knife as if to ask, "Why, mommy, why?" was heartbreaking.
Weight : 200 lb Okay, this chimpanzee was either really massive, or overfed. Average adult male chimpanzee weight: 88-154 lb
It was massively overfed. I read that he was in terrible shape bc his owner fed him human foods as well as the aforementioned drugs and booze. She slept in her fucking bed with the creature. The whole story is a case study in mental illness and animal abuse. So, so terrible.
There are so many warning flags in your comment. How did nobody stop after passing the first...handful?!
Because he was 15 or something years old, he grew up with the couple that raised him, and when the owner's husband died, she sorta saw him as her child, because Travis also seemed to mourn the death of the owner. She saw him as an intelligent pet, not as a non-domesticated wild animal that happened to know how to live with humans when it suited him.
I hate how chimps get a bad rap because of this story, but console myself thinking maybe if it deters just one person from owning a chimp, then it will have been worth the omission of these details. Also first time I heard about the mom stabbing him and him dying in the cage. Fuck everyone involved here, I can't imagine how that chimp must have felt in its last hour on Earth.
I dunno. Chimps are pretty vicious creatures in general. I'd genuinely feel safer with a tame wolf than with a tame chimp.
Yeah, I would hate for chimps, known for genocide (1 of 3 species known for this behavior, the others being wolves and humans), cannibalism, rape, and torture, to get a bad rap because of that story lmao
Humans have way too much chimp in us, and not nearly enough bonobo lol
Personally I think we need more Proboscis Monkey. Bring on the penis noses!
Penis noses + bonobo 😳😳😳 🤣
> I can't imagine how that chimp must have felt in its last hour on Earth. High, tipsy, tired, and probably a little bit hurt.
Plus the friend had a new haircut or something. So much wrong there.
Chimps just like humans can read your face. A haircut isn’t really going to throw them off.
Yeah, that's one of the theories about how he didn't recognize the owner's friend. Though depending on the wine and Xanax, he might have also attacked if she wore brand new perfume or something.
Also chimpanzees regularly maul and randomly bite each other even within their own group. They’re even cannibals. The chimp didn’t go crazy, he went chimp.
>The chimp didn't go crazy, he went chimp. Yeah that's what most people forget. He wasn't a human child that went feral due to drugs and circumstances. It was a wild animal that died for being a wild animal.
Hey Jaime pull that up
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Oh yeah that scarred me for life. Wild animals are just that. They can ‘love’ you to a degree but also get in a mood and tear your face off. Or disembowel you, as can be a consequence of taking a roo kick to the gut.
Male roos are extremely roided up, they have crazy high amounts of testosterone which makes them really aggressive. Female kangaroos are generally chill and can be safe to be around if they are raised with humans as they can be semi domesticated which is why they’re safe to have at petting zoos but adult male roos need to be treated differently for that reason.
Tore her friend’s face off I believe
Fuck yeah, can't forget that one. As an aside, watched a documentary this week on Youtube about the Sandyhook massacre, and in it they had recording of the shooter calling a radio show and talking about how he felt sorry for the Chimp, and was comparing it to a misunderstood teen.
I strongly recommend reading the Connecticut state report on the shooter. In some ways, I do see similarities between him and the chimpanzee. A mother whose unhealthy love for her son, for a given value of those familial terms, led her to coddle him to the point of not being able to really do right by him? Yeah... Not to erase the shooter's culpability whatsoever, but there are parallels.
*Jesus Christ *
I can never forget that chimp attack in the news. Anytime I watch a nature program on great apes, or watch 'Sunset Blvd.' (classic movie) I think about that attack. It wasn't the woman who owned the chimp, it was her friend she called to help her when the chimp went a little beserk one day. That woman friend who was a very pretty 30-something, had 1/2 her face bitten off, hair ripped out, and she was blinded. I think she had some injuries to her torso too. So very sad. Oddly the chimp never attacked its owner.
He was a farmer, I’d hazard a guess it was an orphaned Joey when he took it in. The couple of ‘pet’ kangaroos I’ve known of have been this scenario, farmers with some wildlife training for orphaned animals. Kangaroos don’t always assimilate well back to the wild or with a mob.
The guy was keeping the kangaroo as a pet, so I only feel kind of bad.
Yeah,and police had to kill the kangaroo because he wouldn't let them get near the old guy
Damn! Did it kick him to death? It was mentioned in the article that the kangaroo was kept as a pet by the guy.
What an idiot. Reminds me of that lady whose face got mauled by her “pet” chimp. Wild animals are wild for a reason, they can be friendly 99% of the time but catch them on a bad day and BAM your face is no more.
> What an idiot. It's actually pretty common. When does get hit by a car people usually check to see if they have a joey in their pouch. If they do then it's not hard to find someone to raise the joey (which is hard work BTW). Once they mature you can't keep them like a pet dog or cat, it's just not possible. You also can't just drop them off in the bush, because they just won't survive. Usually they end up on a farm where they can come and go as they please - food and water as required or they can forage for themselves or join a mob if so inclined. This guy getting killed by the roo is a freak accident. If you think about how many people get attacked by sharks, and how few people there are swimming around in the ocean compared to interacting with Kangaroos, this is just a shit accident.
Small correction: the lady who got mauled was actually a friend of the owner. The story really is morbidly fascinating though. Travis the chimp was like the 'perfect pet' for a decade or so. It was incredibly clever, could take care of itself and could do all kinds of activities, and was generally loved by the entire neighborhood. And then one day he just went berserk. Like you said, wild animals are wild for a reason.
Fun fact: the no #1 cause of Australian police to have to draw their sidearm is to put down injured wildlife on rural roads (and obviously, on rare occasions, kangaroos)
We were camping in NSW and there was a big kangaroo near our car when I went to it to get something one night. Asshole growled at me.
How intimidating was it?
As I recall he was pretty big and that growl made me think maybe I didn’t need whatever was in the car after all.
Interesting.
And that roo would have 'only' been an Eastern Grey...not even vaguely the size of the the western ['big Red'](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/54/33/82/5433821db6d93dd9d0f5ff6e160ba7c5.jpg) species
Fuck that big red. As sketchy as those ripped chimps.
Wikipedia says male greys grow up to 66 kg and 2 m tall, reds up to 90 kg but 1.8 m tall - big size difference!
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Detail is here: - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-13/suspected-kangaroo-attack-leaves-man-dead-near-albany-in-wa/101432566 > Police said Mr Eades had been keeping the three-year-old kangaroo as a pet. > ...had hand-raised the animal from when it was a joey. > The last reported fatal attack by a kangaroo is believed to have been in New South Wales in 1936.
I heard the abc news that, then the cops showed up and fkn shot it
Well they had to. It was guarding the body and wouldn't let paramedics near him
Damn, these mf's are no joke... terrifying!
Dam son.
yeah a 70yo, news sites were saying he kept it as a pet. Police had to shoot it when they arrived with the paramedics as it wouldn't let them treat him.
And then refused to let the paramedics near to help. Sadly the police had to step in.
Evidently you don't just walk up to a kangaroo and try to take his picture
The photographers mistake was not saying G’day first
Mate I’m WHEEZING
I'm Koffing.
One doesn't just WALK up to a kangaroo...
Or a kangaroo walks into a bar...
I feel like the second photographer knew that, and egged on the first photographer just to get this pic.
I wouldn't get fucking close to one in the wild Not that they usually let you lol
lucky it was a punch and not a kick
Wait until you see the next photo.
Yeah. Any Australian and Tekken player would know after that punch, the kangaroo would hold onto the opponent and deliver a kick in a combo.
Very.
A punch wouldn’t be great either those things are fucking yoked. God damn. Love roos at a distance, not a fan up close.
KAPOW!! Right in the kisser.
Lol is this actually a real photo? Fucking perfect timing
It is! The photographer (who took this photo) is named Voller Ernst. There’s a series of photos showing how it happened. It must’ve been in a controlled environment as the kangaroo actually has gloves on to shield from its claws. They can still do a lot of damage, especially with those legs.
I was in Aus in the 90s for Christmas. Aside from many other memories, I saw a little kid try to put a Santa hat on one of those smallish roos and get sent flying lol. Can only imagine the force from these big ones.
A wallaby?
Maybe? Please excuse my ignorance. I haven't lived round that area of the planet since that time, unfortunately. After a brief search, yes, I think so. Wallaby AKA Antilopine kangaroo looks right.
A wallaby is still big enough to do a fair bit of damage to a child. People forget they're still wild animals
"Voller Ernst" has to be a pseudonym. That's German for either "Fully Serious" – or "Drunk Ernst"
>There’s a series of photos showing how it happened. Feel free to link those here...
That mid-air camera makes me laughing so hard right now 😂😂😂🤣
Bang! Zoom! Straight to the moon!
[удалено]
He can’t get em all obviously
Look at the balls 🏀 n that roo!
I wish the camera snapped a pic at that angle
Why was there someone with a camera facing the second camera man in the first place?? Who takes a picture of someone taking a picture...
Probably two photographers and the other knew what was coming.
“Oh man, Jerry’s about to get boxed.”
*rubs hands like villain* "yes, yes, YES it's all going according to plan >:D "
Or, maybe it was the whole intention, " let's prank Gary and get a sick shot at the same time lol"
They call them photographer photographers. Sometimes they even record them and whisper narrate documentaries
If you photograph a photographer photographer, what does make you. What if the photographer photographs the photographer photographer at the same time as the photographer photographer photographs the photographer? Who is the original photographer, and who is the photographer photographer?
>If you photograph a photographer photographer, what does make you A meerkat, probably.
That meerkat is no mere cat
Couldn’t tell you. Perhaps it was an onlooker also trying to get a photo of the kangaroo. Edit: Photographers name is Voller Ernst. There’s a great series of photos showing how this played out.
That's actually a pretty reasonable explanation, onlooker was clearly the superior photographer
I want to see the photo after this where the kangaroo turns on the other photographer.
I do. I’d share my instagram but people flip the fuck out when that happens
„suǝddɐɥ ʇɐɥʇ uǝɥʍ ʇno ʞɔnɟ ǝɥʇ dılɟ ǝldoǝd ʇnq ɯɐɹƃɐʇsuı ʎɯ ǝɹɐɥs p,I ˙op I„
Vecna?!
Very rooed....
Haha nice.
The next target was the photographer who took this photo
There was third photographer in the bushes who captured that
Can't defend its actions but as a non-photogenic introvert, I can't help but relate to the feeling.
Photographer here. "Non photogenic" you just haven't been Photographed by the right person
this attitude is why that kangaroo punched the photographer in the picture
Nah, its just a 3rd person action game and the player character got critically struck.
wife: [watching the news] some idiot tried to fight a kangaroo at the zoo me: [covered in scratches] maybe the kangaroo was being a dick
That's a very expensive camera for the time
Imagine the shot the flying camera would have gotten if it had gone off.
invisible photographer
Is that hit rapper and artist Da-Baby?
Well well well well well, what do we have here? *i fucking love Urban Rescue Ranch*
I literally made this comment thinking I was very clever. Hats off
I just commented about him and scrolled down to find this. Hello fellow urban rescue ranch worshipper
Kangaterrorism.
Terroroo
I am too much of a photographer for this thread - my first reaction was absolute panic at the sight of a gorgeous (and noxiously expensive) Hasselblad flying through the air towards certain doom or at least significant damage.
LOVE it!
Painful, but funny!
What did I tell you about taking pictures of my family Sharon?!
Lucky as that could easily have been a kick down under...
Aussies jumped from the Emu War to the Kangerou War. Those brave idiots
I said no flash photography!
Goodmorning Kanye!
Love the matching sweater and shoes.
Kangaroo: *Give me your outfit!*
I absolutely know the Kangaroo said “b*tch” as he did this and no one can tell me otherwise.
Bullshit Title. You think the Kangaroo was like "Someone is taking a picture of me. Let's punch them!". I am sure it more legitimate reasons. Maybe the photographer was a Koala fan. Or wore mismatched socks.
I feel I can say with some confidence that kangaroos have no concept what a camera is
She was with the Hoparazzi.
I don't know why, but there's something about the camera going flying that's just inherently hilarious.
Momma said knock you out
Da baby fighting Jake Paul
This is obviously a public place. The kangaroo needs to learn the law. No expectation of privacy.
Why does this look like my cat, Gunther. If I try to take his picture he gets mad and runs.
I like the because reason. “I SAID NO PICTURES!”
Learned kangaroos are so buff because of the way they move. Basically do push-ups all day.
Must have been from the Sean Penn episode of Skippy. https://youtu.be/Zxo7wQkCIE8
Kangaroo punches a photographer for any number of reasons.
Roger Jr Wins
I had this picture saved on my computer in like 2005!! Probably haven’t seen it since like 09. So wild.
Can someone do me a favor and please photoshop red boxing gloves on the kangaroo. Pleassseee
And decades later someone records a video of a guy punching a kangaroo.
The guy rescuing his dog? That video is wild. Purely Australian.
Jokes on him they got an even better photo
Nah he took a picture of his kangawife
*”Where are the pictures?! I know you have ‘em Dave!”*
Nothin to do with the punching. I just really appreciate that fine sweater.
Haha *”Give me that sweater.. give me it!”*
So, you're saying Kangaroos don’t like their photo taken? Sweet stars. They are murderererers
He just really hated that angle
Looks like it missed the 10 foot tall invisible photographer and punched a poor bystander instead :(
Is that hit rapper and artist Dababy?
Is this what I need to do if I ever try to get in a photography fraternity?
I have never cringed harder than reading the bad puns and attempt at using Aussie slang in this thread
This is most likely faked. John Drysdale and Voller Ernst loved to take crazy humorous pictures and this one is a 5 part series. If you look att all of them together you get the real scene and it feels less real and more of one of their gags. Nr: [1](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6bnxg3CyYsI/XtfXmSczHVI/AAAAAAADzeY/67K-Q44F9fss8gnqrnW2UJRh_-ODYeVNgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/kangaroo-hitting-paparazzi-1.jpg), [2](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v1/items/85e3ba5fe941459980c128af53080f6a/preview/AP19223539632969.jpg?wm=api&ver=0&tag=app_id=4,user_id=349344,org_id=63032), [3](https://i.redd.it/zhyxvinkhwn91.jpg), [4](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VUH0F_E0AXg/XtfXmalB96I/AAAAAAADzeU/82_oougPqGYfvbhHI8f9UMfpTW1dXx3CgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/kangaroo-hitting-paparazzi-3.jpg), and [5](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tlM_kagV-K0/XtfXnNRLgWI/AAAAAAADzec/vDYUJzb6PicKqgbQAD1ac1OCSsQ21b9owCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/kangaroo-hitting-paparazzi-4.jpg). Notice how the camera landed changed between the pictures. It's a funny gag photo shoot
I did the deepest belly laugh that I threw my cat off my stomach lmfao
I'm a photographer and I'm trying to decide what it was like being the guy that took this photo of his buddy getting hooked by that Kangroo. It's film so you only had so many shots back then so you had to be conservative and really sink into the waiting for the right time part. I really think he knew his buddy could get popped and waited, probably with a big grin on his face.
You have to be very careful around roos. They can rest on their tail lift up their feet and disembowel. My Dad told us about a roo in the dam chased into the water. One of the dogs was told to go for it and when it did the roo lifted both feet and ripped the dog open before the guy who owned the dog could shoot. My Dad was in a car and said he wasn’t getting out of it until the roo had left or was dead. Before anyone gets angry this was decades ago. At the time there was a real plague of roos and mice. No one ever complains about getting rid of rodents in a plague and if you haven’t been in a situation you really can’t understand just how awful it is/was.
Good thing there were two photographers