Melbourne Jogger Attacked By Kangaoo
Melbourne Jogger Attacked By Kangaoo
By Mark Stewart
16 January, 2017
Melbourne Jogger Attacked By Kangaoo
Melbourne Jogger Attacked By Kangaoo
By Mark Stewart
16 January, 2017
Melbourne Jogger Attacked By Kangaoo
Melbourne Jogger Attacked By Kangaoo
By Mark Stewart
16 January, 2017
Melbourne Jogger Attacked By Kangaoo
Melbourne Jogger Attacked By Kangaoo
By Mark Stewart
16 January, 2017
Melbourne Jogger Attacked By Kangaoo
Melbourne Jogger Attacked By Kangaoo
By Mark Stewart
16 January, 2017
Melbourne Jogger Attacked By Kangaoo
Melbourne Jogger Attacked By Kangaoo
By Mark Stewart
16 January, 2017
Melbourne Jogger Attacked By Kangaoo
Melbourne Jogger Attacked By Kangaoo
By Mark Stewart
16 January, 2017
Melbourne Jogger Attacked By Kangaoo
Melbourne Jogger Attacked By Kangaoo
By Mark Stewart
16 January, 2017
A Melbourne jogger has had emergency surgery after she was ripped, kicked and mauled by a rogue kangaroo.
Templestowe personal trainer Debbie Urquhart says she was ferociously attacked by a 2m-tall male roo early on Saturday while jogging ­towards the Candlebark running track near Watties Rd.
The 54-year-old said the kangaroo repeatedly kicked her, ripped her clothes and “threw me around like a rag doll”.
Mrs Urquhart played dead in an effort to stop the attack and escaped out of the paddocks moments after the kangaroo hopped away.
She then ran about 500m back to her home, screaming and covered in blood.
Her husband, Robert, covered her in towels and rushed her to the emergency department at Austin Hospital in Heidelberg.
The roo “ripped me to pieces”, Mrs Urquhart said.
“He just kept on kicking into me and I was trying to crawl away.
“He left me for a bit and I thought he was going to come back and kill me.”
Mrs Urquhart miraculously escaped without any broken bones and stayed in hospital until Sunday.
She narrowly avoided ­plastic surgery and received 20 stitches in her right upper arm, 10 stitches in her right shoulder and five stitches in three places on her buttocks, along with several other nasty wounds.
Mrs Urquhart says the memories of the horror attack are seared in her mind.
“Every time I close my eyes it's pretty vivid, it’s horrible,” she said.
“If he had got to my stomach, I could have been killed.”
Mrs Urquhart said she was determined to get over the ­attack as soon as possible and was planning to go back to work later today.
She said being fit saved her from being killed.
“I walked again yesterday afternoon as soon as I got back home from hospital,” she said.
But she said she wasn’t going to run near the walking track and the incident was a warning to nearby residents to be wary of kangaroo ­attacks. 


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