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Article: DEPUTIES ARE ON A WILD -- KANGAROO CHASE? THE MYSTERY MARSUPIAL WAS SPOTTED NEAR DODGEVILLE BUT DISAPPEARED INTO THE WOODS.(FRONT)
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- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- January 5, 2005
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Byline: Richard W. Jaeger Wisconsin State Journal
Iowa County Sheriff Steve Michek feels a bit like Crocodile Dundee.
It's not every day in Wisconsin that you have a kangaroo on the loose in your county.
"Well, at least we are treating it as being the real thing," Michek said Tuesday about several reports of a kangaroo along Highway 18-151 east of Dodgeville Monday night.
He said the calls to his department, which began about 7 p.m. Monday, came from "reliable" people. One was a former sheriff's deputy who said she saw the small, reddish colored marsupial hopping about.
Michek assured that none of the reports came from an ...