Oh Today Tonight.. You have done it again!

They can be dangerous. And they could attack seemingly out of the blue I'm sure. But I think in most cases, the people that get attacked are probably the nosy people that got to close to the kangaroos or gave them a reason to feel intimidated enough to attack. I see kangaroos a fair bit, they don't care about me, sometimes they will run off, and I make sure not to get close to them if I can help it. Once I did when I was younger, and I'm just lucky I was a good runner lol.

I mean, yes people should be careful around them, but they might be over doing it in the drama department here lol

one scratched my arm as a kid, and it stole my apple.

when i was 16 i knelt down to pat a young grey and it kicked me and i rolled down a hill

also a fiend of mine had his collar bone broken by a roo when he was 8

they can be nasty when they are semi-domestic, they get entitled

I spent 3 and a half months at a wildlife sanctuary last year, including working with a mob of 100+ Eastern Grey Kangaroos.

If these Kangaroos are so dangerous, why was I never harmed while I stumbled down the hill, 16 years old and completely by myself, struggling to carry a 20kg bag of food, and being swarmed by at least 30-50 roos? I stepped on tails and toes, pushed dominant males out of the way, and pushed hungry mouths away from the bag, without even feeling slightly threatened? Because they aren't dangerous without reason, and I had no reason to fear them. The alpha male was huge, muscular and very powerful, yet was always up for a pat... Sounds very savage to me.

Eastern Greys are very peaceful, and gentle animals. Unless they are provoked, or see reason to attack/defend, they are rarely aggressive. They're flight, not fight, animals. And I will always feel very safe and comfortable around them.

haven't seen it but by your description here's what I had to say: oh. dear. god..

Well incidents involving kangaroos are probably going to occur more frequently with the rise of human urbanisation and increased loss of natural kangaroo habitat. Kangaroos and humans are now living closer together than ever before. Though kangaroos seem to be adapting to living alongside humans better than people are adapting to living alongside roos.

There was a great documentary on television the other night about this called "Kangaroo Mob":
http://www.360degreefilms.com.au/kangaroo-mob

I remember this story.... I just shook my head the entire time. Animals will be animals. Regardless of where they are and who is around them. Especially wild, untrained ones!

They should have thought about this BEFORE they taught Kangaroos Kung-Fu,
their oversight is their misfortune in my opinion.

im not saying roos are evil or anything, but it was a wildlife sanctuary, i've worked at a wildlife sanctuary with greys as well and they don't behave the same in the wild, "don't bite the hand you feed". mind you in the wild they wouldn't even come up to you