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Americans spend a lot of time complaining about the number of young Australians that have invaded their country in recent years.
Now they’ve got an actual kangaroo jumping about in New York City.
The New York Daily News reports that the kangaroo is privately owned, and apparently got loose over the weekend.
The report says ‘Buster’ hopped through an unlocked gate in a 6-foot-high fence and hopped about for around 15 minutes before being captured.
“It was jumping around, enjoying the freedom and the fun,” said Urim Osmani, 34, owner of the nearby Alb’s Auto Repair on Travis Ave.
“We didn’t know what it was. We thought it was a deer. When it came closer, we saw it was a kangaroo. We thought it disappeared from a zoo or something.”
Police say the kangaroo belongs to John Schirripa, who made the news in November 2012 when a zebra and a Shetland pony escaped from his stable in the same neighbourhood.
