When Jonathan Bishop landed at the Orroral Valley tracking station on March 7, he did not expect to be the victim of a kangaroo attack.
Bishop had been in the air for about two hours near Canberra, and since there wasn’t a safe landing place anywhere else, he decided it was time to get his feet back on the ground. “It is the last cleared valley where I could safely land,” he explained in the video description, “as over the next ridge there is only wilderness and trees. I decided to land on the concrete slab of the old Orroral Space Tracking Station.”
Unfortunately for Bishop, a pair of kangaroos weren’t too excited about a flying man using their stomping grounds for a landing pad. “I was concentrating on the landing and didn’t notice the Kangaroo until after I landed,” he continued. “As it ran towards me, I thought it was being friendly so I said ‘What’s Up, Skip?’ It then attacked me twice before hopping away.”
When asked for comment, the kangaroo quoted Churchill. “We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds,” it said.
Bishop’s reaction after the encounter was a classically Australian one. “Fucking kangaroos,” he said.
