Stijn Boeijen from Wouw was surprised on Wednesday evening when he wanted to play football with his son. He was standing face to face with a kangaroo in the middle of the street. “I thought, what am I seeing? Is it a dog or a cat? But it turned out to be a kangaroo jumping through the gardens here.”
Stijn stepped out that evening to go to football training with his son Siebe. His friend Roger and son Gijs were also cycling through the street at that time and they were equally surprised.
“I thought we should do something with it, so we tried to catch it. Our sons are still chasing it, but that beast is so fast.”
Once they arrived at the Wouw football club, they told what they had seen on the street. “But we weren’t believed.” In all the hectic pace, Stijn tried to make footage, but failed.
The animal would have escaped from a resident of Wouw and according to Stijn the animal was still not caught on Thursday morning. The police have received a number of reports of the stray animal, but according to a spokesperson there would be no dangerous situations. It is up to the owner to catch the animal.
The half-meter-high animal could just as well be a wallaby: “Many people do not see the difference”, according to the police.
