Kangaroo startles drivers on Alabama interstate

[Tanuki]

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/us/kangaroo-alabama.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Dk8.reuA.uitMiJ6AnY10&smid=url-share

[MarineCombatEngineer]

1. Well, there's something you don't see everyday in the US.

Glad everyone, including Sheila, are ok and she's back with her care taker.

[Tanuki]

3. I would have been startled, too! I'm glad they took a video! 🦘

On a road trip through Virginia, my sister once insisted that she saw an emu roadkill. Everyone laughed at her until a couple of miles down the road there was an emu farm.

[canetoad]

8. I do

And they're incredibly fast, erratic and unpredictable. Gladly, I've never hit one but a big roo came barrelling over a 5 metre embankment saw my car going past and put the brakes on. I saw every sinew and muscle go into reverse mode. It glanced off my passenger door and carried on it's way.

[StarryNite]

2. Wow! Things were really hoppin' there for a while.

So glad the roo is fine as are the motorists. Happy ending.

[eppur_se_muova]

4. Thought this might have something to do w/Kangaroo Conservation Center in Dawsonville, GA ... but no.

Apparently, they are now closed to the public. There's a zoo nearby which allows close contact, for a fee.

[GreenWave]

5. It went down under by the side of the road.

[In It to Win It]

6. Someone got off on the wrong exit

[SheilaAnn]

7. One of those Kangaroos is named Sheila, just sayin'....