Runaway kangaroo rescued from an interstate median in Kansas

Police officers in Edwardsville, Kansas, rescued an injured juvenile kangaroo from the median of Interstate 435 on a current night time.

Edwardsville regulation enforcement and animal management from close by Bonner Springs responded to calls concerning the uncommon freeway sight of a joey, which some mistook for a wallaby.

“There is nothing normal about a kangaroo in the middle of 435. This isn’t Australia, so random kangaroos in the middle of the highway aren’t normal,” Bonner Springs Police Capt. Mike Krauze instructed the Kansas City Star.

The kangaroo was rescued with out difficulties.

“It was laying down and not very mobile from the time I showed up,” Animal Control Officer Kendra Anthony instructed WDAF-TV. “It had crossed over three lanes of traffic to get to the median. But once I got there, the capture went pretty smoothly.”

The critter was taken again to the Bonner Springs animal management facility, the place it was put behind bars and given veterinary care. Law enforcement didn’t specify whether or not the kangaroo’s accidents had been brought on by a automobile or by different means.

Edwardsville police later decided the younger kangaroo had escaped from a automobile owned by Thorni Ridge Exotics because it returned from a petting zoo occasion on the Kansas City Public Library.