{"id":270268,"date":"2026-08-22T17:22:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T17:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/270268\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T17:22:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T17:22:20","slug":"2-kangaroos-captured-after-hopping-around-pa-neighborhood-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/270268\/","title":{"rendered":"2 kangaroos captured after hopping around Pa. neighborhood \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>G&#8217;day mate. <\/p>\n<p>What would you do if you saw a joey bouncing around your neighborhood?<\/p>\n<p>Well, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hellertownpd\/posts\/pfbid02CcEAbmP78Cb8BgGN13A7jAGWTNe1Ma5rZcsksymKNENoscd24mrNkcpZfrmPVxSEl\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hellertownpd\/posts\/pfbid02CcEAbmP78Cb8BgGN13A7jAGWTNe1Ma5rZcsksymKNENoscd24mrNkcpZfrmPVxSEl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">two Hellertown police officers were faced with that<\/a> exact scenario on Tuesday, Aug. 18! <\/p>\n<p>While on patrol, Officer McCartney and Officer Johnston encountered the two baby kangaroos and were able to bring them into custody to get them returned to their owner. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/split-2-diagonal-1200x675-6-1.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tHellertown Police DepartmentHellertown Police Department<\/p>\n<p>The two officers have been on the police force for a combined 44 years and said this is the first time they ever had to capture a kangaroo on the job. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"G&#8217;day mate. What would you do if you saw a joey bouncing around your neighborhood? Well, two Hellertown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,4615,434,28],"class_list":["post-270268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-critter-corner","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}