About 20 kangaroos were mowed down in an apparent hit-and-run spree in Australia over the weekend, local police said.
The lifeless marsupials were found sprawled on the road in rural Tura Beach, on the south coast of the state of New South Wales, around 10:15 a.m. Sunday, police said in a statement.
Local officials believe someone intentionally ran over the animals — including adults and joeys — between 10:30 and 11:30 p.m. Saturday in a residential part of town.
The kangaroos were likely struck by a white vehicle with mounted spotlights, local outlet 7 News reported.
“So the ‘roos would have stood there stunned and then they just ran them down,” Janine Green, a veteran volunteer with Australia’s Wildlife Information, Rescue and Education Service, told the outlet.
Police woke Green around 1 a.m. Sunday and gave her a surviving Joey to care for.
“Until you see it, you can’t grasp the reality of it,” Green said of the heartbreaking scene.
People had been out drinking and watching soccer the night before, she told the outlet.
“I was very sad that someone would have such low self-esteem they would think this would make them a hero,” Green added. “What fun could there be in this carnage, how could it make a person happy?”
https://nypost.com/2019/09/30/kangaroos-mowed-down-in-sick-australian-hit-and-run-spree/
2019-09-30 11:45:00Z
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