An Australian couple found themselves sharing their bed with a 6ft kangaroo after it took a running jump at their house and smashed through the bedroom window.
“An almighty crash and the next thing we’ve got this kangaroo through the front window of our bedroom,” Bill McConnell, 77, said yesterday.
Mr McConnell, a national veteran cycling champion, and his wife, Norma, live in Torquay, a seaside town about 60 miles southwest of Melbourne. They were asleep when the kangaroo burst in on them at dawn on Sunday. “It landed on the bed only a matter of a few feet from my wife’s head. It smashed the glass, of course, so it must have taken a running jump at the window.
“I don’t know whether it was frightened by something or whether it saw its reflection in the window — but being outside and then jumping through the window seems quite an unusual thing to happen,” said Mr McConnell.
The marsupial scrambled off the bed and ran riot through the house for about ten minutes, he said, before finding its way into the back garden through an open door. It left a trail of blood and scratched furniture. “There’s a gate fairly high, probably over six feet in height. It took a jump, landed on top and got over — and off it had gone.”
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The couple moved to the area after their former home was struck by lightning and burnt down.