{"id":638870,"date":"2026-06-14T21:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T21:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/638870\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T21:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T21:33:11","slug":"kangaroo-stuns-sa-girl-as-it-bounds-out-of-the-laundry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/638870\/","title":{"rendered":"Kangaroo stuns SA girl as it bounds out of the laundry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An eight-year-old girl had quite a shock as she went to the laundry room of her family home in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/australia-news\/sa\" class=\"sc-iihzTf dklAlE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The young girl was bowled over by the bounding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/australia-news\/today-show\/videos\/giant-kangaroo-fossil-discovered-in-australian-outback\/clv2znegh000p0hn3v50qb954\" class=\"sc-iihzTf dklAlE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">kangaroo<\/a> as it came out of their Coober Pedy home.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kangaroo hits 8-year-old girl as it bounds out of Coober Pedy laundry\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/d5e68178cc5170dc1a62c0849521982caeaa7fb74bbb115e783bf6ea084123f2.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Kangaroo hits 8-year-old girl as it bounds out of Coober Pedy laundry\u00a09News<\/p>\n<p>The roo somehow became stuck in the laundry and as the girl walked in, it attempted to make a quick exit.<\/p>\n<p>But on its way out, the kangaroo jumped straight into the little girl and knocked down the eight-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, the girl wasn\u2019t injured, just a little shaken and surprised by the unexpected find.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An eight-year-old girl had quite a shock as she went to the laundry room of her family home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-638870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}