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Kangaroo 'tries to drown' man in Australian floodwaters

Port Macquarie: Kangaroo 'tries to drown' man in Australia floodwaters

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Kangaroos do exactly this to dogs fairly regularly.
It's not necessarily an attempt to drown an attacker.
Roos often retreat into water as a defence. Even on land their defence is pretty much holding with their arms and kicking / disembowelling with their huge clawed feet. In the water that translates to holding something under the water.
Big male kangaroos are no joke. Just like males of any herd animal, they will do whatever they can to harm you of they're threatened.
as he told Ms Lees that just 12 months ago he had fended off another attack, that time by a great white shark.
"I feel like they're trying to kill me, all these animals," he reportedly said.
Bloody hell, I wouldn't be going outside for a while
- Meanwhile, I'm here on the other side of the world nodding my head and saying "yep, Australia checks out."
- It's not like animals in Australia don't just fucking come into your home.
- I think there are several movies about this. We should stop burning fossil fuels.
Dunkaroos
He should argue his grievances to some sort of tribunal presided over by one or several judges in which legal issues and claims are heard and determined: one specifically that specializes in mammalians of the marsupial sort.
- Kangaroo court even?
  
  I was thinking wombat judiciary
Yeah they do that
This would be an excellent test for the pollies I'd reckon
- Like, if they follow a kangaroo into water they get booted out of office?

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