{"id":446980,"date":"2026-02-03T18:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/446980\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T18:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:07:11","slug":"look-escaped-kangaroo-blocks-traffic-on-virginia-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/446980\/","title":{"rendered":"Look: Escaped kangaroo blocks traffic on Virginia road"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Feb. 2 (UPI) &#8212; Sheriff&#8217;s deputies were called to a snowy Virginia road where a loose kangaroo was reported blocking traffic.<\/p>\n<p>The Nelson County Sheriff&#8217;s Office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NCSOVa\/posts\/pfbid0wo4yTeBkQF4WTH5MJh9SVjeD5hHzDu7kBfR3f6EY2gmR2BVrLGPy63u7GJjKxnJMl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said on social media<\/a> that deputies responded Saturday &#8220;to the intersection of Thomas Nelson Highway and Oak Ridge Road, for a report of a kangaroo in the roadway obstructing traffic.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>The deputies were able to guide the marsupial out of the Route 29 roadway and onto a private property off Oak Ridge Road, where it was kept secured until its owner arrived.<\/p>\n<p>The kangaroo was found to be injured, but is expected to make a full recover, the sheriff&#8217;s office said.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 2 (UPI) &#8212; Sheriff&#8217;s deputies were called to a snowy Virginia road where a loose kangaroo was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[1147,2699,2697,79,2698,201],"class_list":["post-446980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-funny","tag-odd","tag-science","tag-weird","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}