Australia is a terrifying continent. It’s had a history as messy as America when it comes to dealing with its native peoples and forming a modern nation, but one thing it has over the United States is a terrifying litany of animals that can kill you. There are spiders. So, so many spiders. And then there are the kangaroos, which are sometimes cute but also incredibly dangerous when they want to be.
A paraglider recently learned that the hard way when he landed and was immediately attacked by a kangaroo roaming the runway. This video comes to us from Canberra, Australia, a city southwest of Sydney in the Australian Capital Territory. A man successfully lands a paraglider and is greeted by a pair of kangaroos.
“What’s up, skip?” the man asks the approaching kangaroo, before realizing it was not as friendly as initially anticipated.
He could barely get off the extremely Australian “eh f*ck off!” before the kangaroo, well, pounced.
Watch the moment a paraglider makes a safe landing only to then be attacked by a kangaroo. Straya! pic.twitter.com/nqStQnV9gk
— SBS News (@SBSNews) March 8, 2019
The video is incredible. The paraglider continues to tell the kangaroo to “f*ck off” and tries to also fend off what is absolutely some kangaroo fisticuffs. Meanwhile, the second kangaroo looks on, apparently the backup if a man who was just soaring above Australia does any counter-damage on the kangaroo attack.
The whole thing is worth watching a number of times to take in the smaller details, and the initial friendly greeting of the kangaroos who just happened to stroll by here before jumping into action only gets funnier as you go. Thankfully everyone, including the kangaroos, appears to be OK.
“Ah, f*cking kangaroos,” the paraglider says.
And at least he didn’t land in a comically large nest of Australian spiders or something.