Kicker: Roo in the road

NICK EICHER, HOST: So, you’re driving down the road pretty confident you didn’t take a wrong turn or anything when all the sudden it seems your eyes are playing tricks on you. Audio from WSAZ-3:

AUDIO: That’s a kangaroo!

Problem is she’s not in Australia.

BUGS BUNNY: I knew I should’ve made a left turn at Albuquerque.

Right? Actually she was in West Virginia and so was that 7-foot-tall marsupial.

As it turns out West Virginia is one of three states in the U.S. allowing kangaroos as pets, and this one was a got-away.

Evidently, the roo found an open gate, and joy-hopped his way into the road causing a traffic jam.

Seems it was the kangaroo that maybe took a wrong turn in Albuquerque.

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