A kangaroo contemplating evil deeds.

Kangaroos look cute, but behind those big eyes is a heart as black as their eyes.  Kangaroos can be aggressive, dangerous creatures, especially during mating season.  No one’s sure why a kangaroo went on a rampage in Charleville, Queensland, but it did.  A rampaging kangaroo attacked a 94-year-old woman while she was doing laundry; she managed to escape, and when the cops arrived, the kangaroo went after them, too!  Police had to use pepper spray on an angry kangaroo, multiple times, to get it to flee.

“One officer had to deploy his spray on the animal and it ran away and saw the other police officer out of the corner of its eye,” said Sgt. Stephen Perkins of the Charleville Police.  ”The other officer also had to deploy his spray to keep from getting hurt.  It’s one of the many unusual calls we get out here.”

As for the original victim, 94-year-old Phyllis Johnson, she tells a similar story:

“I thought it was going to kill me,” Johnson told Charleville’s paper, The Courier-Mail, from her room in Charleville Hospital.  ”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.”

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