"it [is] not unusual for kangaroos to flee into water if they felt under threat and, as a last defence, they would try to drown their predator with their powerful hind legs."
really?? Wouldn't mind hearing if anyone heard of this over here

From my experience in the states, the only news items about Aus that reach there are the strange ones. When sharks were in Sydney Harbour once, they were "infesting the nation's capitol"... :roll:
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I bought a packet of Snakes Alive yesterday.
Opened it up, and they were all dead