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Wednesday, September 14th, 2022 from Peach Fish Productions it's the gist of Mike Pesca headline AP an Australian man is killed by a kangaroo in a rare fatal attack.

He was apparently keeping the kangaroo as a pet.

The 77 year old in the Perth area kept it as a pet the AP contacting Tonya Irwin who cares for macro pods at the Native Animal Rescue Center in Perth to say kangaroos are not a cute animal they're a wild animal.

Tonya Irwin is wrong they're both cute and wild which may prompt certain 77 year olds in the Australia continent to keep them as pets.

I do like the idea of caring for macro pods I wonder if Tonya Irwin was the first person the AP contacted or if she in fact bigfooted someone else in the macro pod department it's all fair in macro pods and kangaroos.

The sad thing about this man is that he died kangaroos have very sharp claws extremely strong tails and lethal rear claws.

This is why I want to articulate a rule of thumb or if you're a kangaroo listening a rule of rear claw you do not I do not want to succumb to the sad butt death.

The sad butt death is not scatological at all the sad butt death is when someone hears about your death or it is reported on the first reaction of 99% of the people will be sad but I'll give you some sentences that correlate to the sad butt death.

Chief among them he was keeping it as a pet that is a big sad butt death or he insisted the shoot was operational said but death he was trying to prove the meat had not spoiled gives rise to several sad butt deaths a year.

He had been spending a lot of time on the cue message boards he claimed for research.

Thus we might have another sad butt death the AP also reported I'm going back to the part of the headline where they call it rare kangaroo attack they noted that in 1936 William Crookshank died in a hospital in hillston in new south Wales after he'd been attacked by a kangaroo.

In 1936 so this is what 86 years ago could no kangaroos have caused or given rise to fatalities on the entire continent of Australia in that long period of time and we were talking about Australia a place that's lousy with kangaroos where people are apparently given to keeping the beasts as pets so I looked it up and I could not I have to report.

I could not find another instance of a kangaroo killing a person directly but indirectly there are many many examples I searched for fatal kangaroo and oh my did I find example after example of a kangaroo hunt gone wrong where someone died I'll just give you a few examples of these headlines from such places as the farmer and settler magazine the daily

telegraph of Sydney the angus sorry the singleton orgas which is different from the simple ten angus stories like fatal kangaroo hunt fatal kangaroo hunt boy shoots brother fatal kangaroo hunt at a laid accidents fatal kangaroo hunt fatal kangaroo drive people left and right wanting to kill a kangaroo just kill each other

there was also an actress who was trampled by a horse while she was shooting a scene depicting a kangaroo hunt I've got to think kangaroos they're like villains in a fun house where you never know who you're taking a swing at and then you find your fist or cut up because the swing was at yourself only it's not a cut up fist it is the loss of a life sad but that's what you get when you tangle with the kangaroos

kangaroos have been learning Australians to kill each other for years and years almost a century even more it is a tragic way to reach one's end sad but maybe somewhere between wholesale slaughter of the kangaroo and keeping them as a pet is the best strategy for kangaroo coexistence

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