Lucky escape ... surfer Neil McCallum saved a kangaroo that was stuck in a rip.
Posted on 05/13/2009 1:17:27 PM PDT by JoeProBono
QUEENSLAND father of three has put Bondi Rescue, Bondi Vet and Steve Irwin to shame with an early morning rescue of a drowning kangaroo off a tourist beach. Neil McCallum, 48, was on a morning walk with his son, Jazz, 15, about 6am (AEST) on Tuesday along Kirra Beach on the Gold Coast when a juvenile roo bounded across his path, jumped into the surf and started swimming out to sea. Concerned that two hammerhead sharks had been in the same spot in recent days, the pair kept an eye on the roo until it got caught in a rip, The Courier-Mail reports. "A guy came up and said: 'Gee your dog's a long way out'," Mr McCallum said yesterday. "I said: 'That's not a dog, that's a kangaroo'.So Mr McCallum, a professional circuit speaker, dashed home, grabbed his long board and returned to the rescue. "
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Lucky escape ... surfer Neil McCallum saved a kangaroo that was stuck in a rip.
.."shudda put a balloon in his pouch"
Tie me kangaroo down, sport.
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