Valued MemberThe intruder made no sound as it smashed through the bedroom window of a suburban Australian house and started bouncing on the bed where chef Beat Ettlin and his partner Verity Beaman were sleeping.
Only half awake, Mr Ettlin and Ms Beaman had very different ideas about what was happening in their bedroom. I thought it was a lunatic ninja coming at us through the window, Mr Ettlin told The Times. That seemed to make about as much sense as anything else that was happening. I just couldn't comprehend what was going on.
His partner, cowering under the blankets, thought to herself: This is one big possum.
She told The Times: When Beatt said âIt's OK, it's just a kangaroo', I thought it's really not OK. I thought â now this could be really dangerous. I was absolutely terrified.
The family were asleep in their Canberra home in the early hours of Sunday morning when they were alerted to an intruder in their courtyard by the barking of their terrier.
As Mr Ettlin got up to investigate, a huge dark shape smashed through the window and began jumping up and down on the bed where his wife was huddled under the blankets with their daughter Beatrix, 9.
I really didn't know what was happening, said Mr Ettlin. I just saw this black thing jumping on the bed and bouncing against the wall. The bed collapsed on one side under his weight. When I realised it was a kangaroo at first I was relieved but he was going crazy trying to escape.
The terrified animal gouged holes in the bed and smeared blood on the bedroom walls before bounding down the hall to the bedroom of their son, Leighton, 10, who hid behind his teddy bears screaming: There's a kangaroo in my bedroom.
Mr Ettlin said: I thought that's enough, I can't have this any more.
I knew this was a big threat to my family, it could really have hurt us. My wife and daughter were terrified, they were screaming as they hid under the blankets and my son was trying to hide behind his little teddies. I had to do something.
Wearing only his underwear, Mr Ettlin, a chef originally from the Swiss city of Stans, jumped on the two-metre high kangaroo from behind and got it in a headlock. Using his entire body weight to pin the kangaroo down, he wrestled it down the corridor and out the front door.
I really felt its power, he said. It was trying to escape and I knew I had to make sure it didn't get up again because it could really have hurt me, and hurt my family. With one hand he opened the front door and pushed the marsupial into the night.
It took only a few minutes, he said. And all that time there was no sound at all. I could feel the kangaroo breathing really hard and fast against my body but he didn't make a sound. All I could hear was Verity's screams.
When it was all over I had a few scratches on my legs, and there wasn't much left of my underwear.
Link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5875004.ece
Only half awake, Mr Ettlin and Ms Beaman had very different ideas about what was happening in their bedroom. I thought it was a lunatic ninja coming at us through the window, Mr Ettlin told The Times. That seemed to make about as much sense as anything else that was happening. I just couldn't comprehend what was going on.
His partner, cowering under the blankets, thought to herself: This is one big possum.
She told The Times: When Beatt said âIt's OK, it's just a kangaroo', I thought it's really not OK. I thought â now this could be really dangerous. I was absolutely terrified.
The family were asleep in their Canberra home in the early hours of Sunday morning when they were alerted to an intruder in their courtyard by the barking of their terrier.
As Mr Ettlin got up to investigate, a huge dark shape smashed through the window and began jumping up and down on the bed where his wife was huddled under the blankets with their daughter Beatrix, 9.
I really didn't know what was happening, said Mr Ettlin. I just saw this black thing jumping on the bed and bouncing against the wall. The bed collapsed on one side under his weight. When I realised it was a kangaroo at first I was relieved but he was going crazy trying to escape.
The terrified animal gouged holes in the bed and smeared blood on the bedroom walls before bounding down the hall to the bedroom of their son, Leighton, 10, who hid behind his teddy bears screaming: There's a kangaroo in my bedroom.
Mr Ettlin said: I thought that's enough, I can't have this any more.
I knew this was a big threat to my family, it could really have hurt us. My wife and daughter were terrified, they were screaming as they hid under the blankets and my son was trying to hide behind his little teddies. I had to do something.
Wearing only his underwear, Mr Ettlin, a chef originally from the Swiss city of Stans, jumped on the two-metre high kangaroo from behind and got it in a headlock. Using his entire body weight to pin the kangaroo down, he wrestled it down the corridor and out the front door.
I really felt its power, he said. It was trying to escape and I knew I had to make sure it didn't get up again because it could really have hurt me, and hurt my family. With one hand he opened the front door and pushed the marsupial into the night.
It took only a few minutes, he said. And all that time there was no sound at all. I could feel the kangaroo breathing really hard and fast against my body but he didn't make a sound. All I could hear was Verity's screams.
When it was all over I had a few scratches on my legs, and there wasn't much left of my underwear.
Link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5875004.ece
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