Rooed

My mother was attacked by a kangaroo. She was sixteen, on a high school field trip to the zoo. Some boys were teasing a kangaroo, and she shooed them away. She walked to the chain-link fence that held the ‘roo, and started to soothe him. He reached through the fence, grabbed her, and started shaking her, dashing her against the fence over and over.

I love that story.