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Kangaroo caught after going on the lam in New York

By Cox Media Group National Content Desk
Oct 18, 2015

Urim Osmani was opening up his auto repair shop when he thought he saw a deer Saturday morning.

Turns out it was a kangaroo.

Buster escaped from an unlocked gate from a house in Staten Island, according to The New York Times.

"It was running around like crazy and we didn't want it to get hit by a car," Osmani told The New York Times.

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Officers corralled the 3 ½ foot marsupial and he was "taken into custody without incident" after about 15 minutes, the Times reported.

It looked like a lot of fun.

"To see a kangaroo jumping around," Osmani told CBS New York. "Enjoying the freedom."

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