our local zoo got rid of their kangaroo display--my favorite exhibit because if you rattled your keys the things would come hopping downhill to see if you had food (i was young). it turned out someone objected to having kangroos on the Out of Africa section of the zoo.

a warning has gone out to local drivers for fear the animals could stray onto a nearby highway.

What I wouldn't give to be driving around one day and see a kangaroo along the side of the road.

Wow, do I go after the Austia/Australia angle or the0 the France surrenders angle.

Subby, you magnificent bastard

1 Frenchman at a time

This would make a great Disney movie.

Blast the ruddy boundahs.

+1

From TFA: "When we arrived on Saturday morning, five pens had been broken open, their padlocks were smashed and the perimeter fence was torn in several places."

Clever girl...

Subby, that is a WIN.

The theme park, which houses Australian animals alongside exhibits on Aboriginal culture and gold-digging, made French headlines last October when a a pack of hunting dogs attacked and killed 44 kangaroos.

Not a good place to be a kangaroo by the sounds of it. No wonder they made a run for it. Or should that be a hop?

My mother calls homosexual men "kangaroos".

Nothing to do with the story. Just thought I would share.

French drivers are gonna need one of these.

/just kidding
//they don't work anyway

Why would a kangaroo need someone to open the gate in order to escape?
Everyone knows they can pilot helicopters in order to save boys who have fallen down wells.
Isn't that right skip?

Mentat: This would make a great Disney movie.

Homeward Bound 4?

sunbird: The theme park, which houses Australian animals alongside exhibits on Aboriginal culture and gold-digging, ...


/approves of an exhibit on Australian Gold Digging

And what activities other than drinking would be present at such a theme park?

bang! goes another kanga
On the bonnet of the van...

Why would France even have an Australian theme park? Isn't it pretty easy for Europeans to travel within the EU? I would assume that French citizens could just hop on a train and after a few hours see all the kangaroos they want.

Hope that Josef Fritzl doesn't kidnap these kangaroos and throw them on a barbie in his basement.

S-S-Sufferin' Succotash!

...anyone have that farside comic which was "Hannibal's first attempt at crossing the alps"?

They escaped to hunt the pack of wild dogs that killed 44 of their mates.....good on ya diggers!

Car_Ramrod: a warning has gone out to local drivers for fear the animals could stray onto a nearby highway.

What I wouldn't give to be driving around one day and see a kangaroo along the side of the road.

I'm in the third largest city in Australia and we often see them in parks, not so much right by the side of the road, but always in playing fields. The local councils keep bushland reserves into the city so they can move about a fair bit. In several estates here it's not unusual to see them on someone's front lawn.

You know, someday I'll get tired of the Australian/Austrian meme. Today is not that day.

Good Jorb Subby.

redcliffe: Car_Ramrod: a warning has gone out to local drivers for fear the animals could stray onto a nearby highway.

What I wouldn't give to be driving around one day and see a kangaroo along the side of the road.

I'm in the third largest city in Australia and we often see them in parks, not so much right by the side of the road, but always in playing fields. The local councils keep bushland reserves into the city so they can move about a fair bit. In several estates here it's not unusual to see them on someone's front lawn.

but the trouble is that they have the ability to go from on the side of the road to in the middle of your lane without any apparent movement.
They also have the ability to turn (as if hopping away from you) then suddenly change their mind, turn 540 degrees and attack your front bumper.

ADHD Librarian:
but the trouble is that they have the ability to go from on the side of the road to in the middle of your lane without any apparent movement.
They also have the ability to turn (as if hopping away from you) then suddenly change their mind, turn 540 degrees and attack your front bumper.

I haven't had too much trouble with them like that, mind you I'm mostly driving in the city. Out bush I'm sure you have lots more trouble. That said even there the worst animal I've seen for road sense is cows. Where farmers have them out eating the nature strip and they see you coming they'll run away then suddenly decide to go across the road or wherever.

Fano: S-S-Sufferin' Succotash!



*sigh* Oh, father.

/tried to find kangaroo, my google-fu is weak today

redcliffe: Car_Ramrod: a warning has gone out to local drivers for fear the animals could stray onto a nearby highway.

What I wouldn't give to be driving around one day and see a kangaroo along the side of the road.

I'm in the third largest city in Australia and we often see them in parks, not so much right by the side of the road, but always in playing fields. The local councils keep bushland reserves into the city so they can move about a fair bit. In several estates here it's not unusual to see them on someone's front lawn.

...Here in Chicago we have squirrels.

/squirrels, we have them

Here y'go:

Car_Ramrod:

...Here in Chicago we have squirrels.

/squirrels, we have them

At least squirrels don't demolish your car when you hit them

What will happen when they find a stranger?

police have released an identikit picture of the person suspected of releasing the roos.


image as hot as the red sands of Booga's native home

Somebody cue up the kangeroo with a rifle pic from the
first Crocodile Dundee movie

/please
//ok pretty please...

Car_Ramrod: a warning has gone out to local drivers for fear the animals could stray onto a nearby highway.

What I wouldn't give to be driving around one day and see a kangaroo along the side of the road.

I'd give even more to see the resultant carnage as everyone tried to see the thing and take pix with their cell phones.

Sir Ulrich von Lichtenstein of Gelderland: From TFA: "When we arrived on Saturday morning, five pens had been broken open, their padlocks were smashed and the perimeter fence was torn in several places."

Clever girl...

hah.

Amateurs.

headline makes no sense.

Uneven Displacement: headline makes no sense.

You new here?

*checks profile*

/Ah, THAT explains it.

The Onanist: Uneven Displacement: headline makes no sense.

You new here?

*checks profile*

/Ah, THAT explains it.

Really? I figured it was just because I am shiatfaced right now and I was hoping for a joke related to the story about the roo jumping into somebody's bed a week or so back.

Give it some time newbie.

I was about to complain about the article being useless without pics, until I reflected on the difficulty of getting pictures of missing kangaroos.

/Most beginning photographers can't do it, but
/can gurus?

Lunatic ninjas invade France

Escapees from Safari Parks was how Scotland and Wales ended up with Wallaby Colonies.

Kangaroos would suit France.

andynz81: Sir Ulrich von Lichtenstein of Gelderland: From TFA: "When we arrived on Saturday morning, five pens had been broken open, their padlocks were smashed and the perimeter fence was torn in several places."

Clever girl...

hah.

Thanks mate, glad someone was paying attention.