Kangaroo home intruder terrorises sleeping family

WHEN a dark intruder smashed through his bedroom window and repeatedly bounced on his bed, Beat Ettlin at first was relieved to discover it was a kangaroo.

“My initial thought when I was half awake was, ‘It’s a lunatic ninja coming through the window’,” the 42-year-old said yesterday. “It seems about as likely as a kangaroo breaking in.”

As Ettlin cowered beneath the sheets with his wife and 9-year-old daughter at 2am on Sunday, the frantic kangaroo bounded into the bedroom of his 10-year-old son Leighton Beman, who screamed, “There’s a ’roo in my room.”