{"id":264477,"date":"2026-04-24T15:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/264477\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T15:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:20:09","slug":"runaway-kangaroo-spotted-on-texas-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/264477\/","title":{"rendered":"Runaway kangaroo spotted on Texas highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ql80q8z6bk580phv.jpg\" alt=\"VIDEO: Kangaroo spotted on Texas highway\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; A coffee truck owner stranded on a highway in North Texas got quite the surprise while waiting for a tow truck.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Carlie Butler, who owns mobile coffee company Espressoak which is based out of Abilene, shared video with Storyfrul of a kangaroo she spotted on the highway.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Butler says a tire had blown out while she was on Interstate 20 near Gordon, and she had been waiting for hours for a tow truck when suddenly, the marsupial appeared.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">&#8220;I\u2019ve been working as a small business owner for years to go viral,&#8221; Butler told Storyful. &#8220;Who knew all I needed was a breakdown and a kangaroo?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">&#8220;It\u2019s brought so much exposure and joy in the midst of a hard season. My coffee trailer is being repaired, and we hope to be back up and running in the next couple weeks,&#8221; Butler said.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">It was not clear where the kangaroo escaped from, but it is legal to own kangaroos in Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from Storyful.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/science\/wild-nature\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wild Nature<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; A coffee truck owner stranded on a highway in North Texas got quite the surprise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,223,2220,216,393,2795],"class_list":{"0":"post-264477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-wild-nature"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}