Kangaroo spotted hopping around Staten Island

At first he thought it was a deer – occasionally small deer make their way to his shop, which straddles the William T. Davis Wildlife Refuge – but then Buster stood up.

The kangaroo’s owner was visiting Staten Island from upstate New York, where it is apparently total cool to keep massive marsupials as pets. “We thought it disappeared from a zoo or something”.

In the funniest video we’ve seen in a while, a kangaroo, being kept as a pet on Staten Island escaped and became headline news overnight, hopping around on the streets of Staten Island. Lest you’re anxious about kangaroos developing velociraptor-like mastery of doors, a cop source added, “the gate to the rear yard was unsecure”. He retrieved the kangaroo – named Buster – and headed back home with him, police said. He was found in a neighbor’s yard about 15 minutes after police arrived, and returned to his owner around 9 a.m., an NYPD spokeswoman said. “I said, ‘What’s a kangaroo doing on Staten Island?'” Police officers responding to a n emergency call were able to locate Buster’s owner at a nearby home. No charges were filed by police.

“It was jumping around, enjoying the freedom and the fun”, Urim Osmani, who saw the kangaroo around the auto-shop he owns, told the New York Daily News. Since the man was planning to return home Thursday, they did not issue a violation. “We were scared it was going to hurt somebody”.