This is obviously related to the previous post about an escaped emu. Animals from down under are running around up over. Another escaped Australian animal has been captured, this time in Germany. A kangaroo has been bounding about near Bad Wurzach, Germany and leading authorities on a hop-speed chase for weeks. Skippi, however, is on the run no more.
The injured marsupial was captured in a cornfield near Leutkirch im Allgaeu, almost 10 miles from where his journey began, police in the nearby town of Ravensburg said.
Though residents in the area had reported multiple sightings of the kangaroo over the past few weeks, Skippi managed to elude authorities every time.
But earlier Monday, police received a call from someone claiming to have seen the animal in a cornfield not far from the last place he was spotted following a run-in with a car Friday.
We are trying to confirm whether Irish actor Gabriel Byrne was involved in that car incident. (No Irish actor is safe if there is a kangaroo in the vicinity.) We are also trying to ascertain if this "Skippi" is, in fact, "Skippy" a giant mouse last reported dead in Indiana. Which would mean one of two things: either reports of Skippy's demise were faked or that Skippi is, in fact, a zombie kangaroo.
Too bad he didn’t run into Snappi, die kleine Krokodil.