Imagine that you wake up one morning, look out the window and find a kangaroo walking through your neighborhood. “A huge kangaroo”, as the neighbor from Florida (United States) who calls the police points out. Because yes: this has happened in the North American town of Tampa.

In that phone call, the woman reports that several neighbors have managed to lock the animal in the pool area but that, of course, someone has to get it out of there. At that moment it begins the operation: catch the kangaroo.

Several agents, at least five, are deployed in the area. A helicopter even arrives to record images of the kangaroo. jumping from one side to the other through the recreational area. It is a closed area, so the animal is alone, moving between the loungers and under the pergola. He comes to the pool to drink water.

After almost an hour, the police manage to get hold of it and discover that the animal had not escaped from any zoo, as they suspected, but had It’s a neighbor’s pet that had escaped.. The kangaroo was returned to its owner, but there is controversy: animal activists wonder how there can be no legislation that prevents a wild animal from being locked up in a house.