Australian police use pepper spray on kangaroo
Updated: 2011-07-26 09:39
(Agencies)
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CANBERRA, Australia?- Two Australian police officers have used pepper spray to fight off a rogue kangaroo that had attacked an elderly woman in her backyard in an Outback town.
Kangaroos rarely attack humans. Senior-Sgt. Stephen Perkins, head of police in the Queensland state town of Charleville, said Tuesday that he had never before heard of police using pepper spray against one _ but that the tactic worked.
The 94-year-old victim, Phyllis Johnson, was taken to a hospital for treatment for cuts and bruises after the attack Sunday. She told The Courier Mail newspaper that she tried unsuccessfully to fight the kangaroo off with a broom after it attacked her while she was hanging her laundry.
Perkins said wildlife rangers trapped the kangaroo.