Cops Get Reports Of Kangaroo On The Loose - In WISCONSIN

[matcom]

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Iowa County Sheriff Steve Michek feels a bit like Crocodile Dundee.

It's not every day in Wisconsin that you have a kangaroo on the loose in your county.

"Well, at least we are treating it as being the real thing," Michek said Tuesday about several reports of a kangaroo along highways 18 and 151 south and east of Dodgeville late Monday night.

He said the calls to his department, which began about 7 p.m. Monday, came from "reliable" people. One was a former sheriff's deputy who said she saw the small, reddish colored marsupial hopping about.

Michek assured that none of the reports came from an establishment serving Fosters, although some of the spotters may have later imbibed.

Cheryl Martens, of rural Dodgeville, and her 13-year-old son, Joey - not to be confused with a baby kangaroo - were among the "reliable" witnesses who saw the Iowa County kangaroo. In fact, the Sheriff's Department called her early in the evening after getting the first reports.

http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/index.php?ntid=23382&ntpid=1

[benburch]

1. Poor thing is likely to freeze to death!

Bad winter storms here now.

[htuttle]

2. I think this is at least the second time this has happened

I remember another case of a kangaroo on the loose in SE WI many years ago.

[XNASA]

3. If I had a dollar for every time someone in Wisconsin.........

...thought that they saw a kangaroo on the loose, I could move to Santa Barbara.

[underpants]

4. Maybe it is hiding out with Jesper

JESPER!

[RoeBear]

5. In my area of Mid-Michigan

we recently had a traffic report of a buffalo being on the loose.

I thought that strange, a kangaroo does beat it though.

[amazona]

6. the black kangaroo of Jackson, Mississippi

At lot of sincere people used to report seeing this, but there was never any physical evidence.

[sybylla]

7. It's a Jackalope

Geez, I wish you city-folk would lern yer animals. Oh, I know some of you 're shaking yer head but when I lived down thare in Evansville I use ta see 'em all the time.


Honestly, it is a pretty rotten time to be lost in southern Wisconsin. Winter Storm Watches for today. I hope the little begger gets caught soon.

[htuttle]

8. Just heard on WXXM -- Kangaroo has been caught

They found him in a bar.

Typical.

on edit:

Kangaroo walks into a bar. Bartender says...
(looking for a punch line)

[sybylla]

9. WPR had him caught in a barn, not a bar

:shrug:

[htuttle]

11. I might have misheard them

I'd believe either one.

[sybylla]

12. Me too.

Either way, I'm glad the little fellow's been caught. Now, hopefully, they can figure out what on earth he was doing here and where he belongs.

[XNASA]

10. "Get out! Where do you think you are? Wisconsin?"