A Kangaroo Attacked An Australian Jogger Because She Was Wearing Sarah Jessica Parker’s Perfume
Kangaroos. Cute, bouncy marsupials that outnumber people in Australia 2 to 1. Surely they must get along with humans, right? Right?! Well, not always. Last weekend, Melbourne mom of two, Tracey Noonan, went out for a morning jog. But she couldn’t find her deodorant, so she made do with a spritz of perfume – specifically Sarah Jessica Parker’s fragrance. What happened next… will terrify you. More after the jump… JK, I’ll just tell you now: Tracey was attacked by a kangaroo. One of the theories is that the raging roo was captivated by her scent. Hey, that’s not what SJP meant when she said her fragrances would drive the boys wild!
Here’s a news report of the incident:
Tracey says (via 7News):
“As I was running along the road I saw the kangaroo out of the corner of my eye and I didn’t think much of it,” she told 7NEWS. “It started to get closer and closer toward me and then it jumped a fence… that’s when I started to panic and thought, ‘What is this kangaroo doing’. I felt it hit me in the back and it actually knocked me to the ground.”
The roo kept chasing Tracey, whose only defense was running away and throwing gravel. Eventually, she found refuge at the first house she could find. The neighbors let her in to wait out her attacker, but the kangaroo stood in front of the home watching her for 20 minutes. Tracey said she thought, “Oh my goodness, this kangaroo is going to kill me”. She had to be driven home, “unable to shakes the crazed kanga off her scent”.
A ranger later told Tracey it was likely her SJP fragrance that attracted the killer kangaroo. But wildlife expert Assoc. Prof. Catherine Herbert isn’t sold on the fragrance theory. She says, “I don’t know whether the kangaroo was wanting Sex and the City, but I think it was unlikely to have been the perfume.”
Whatever it was, Tracey was left with a big bruise on her back. She says the experience was “horrifying”, and she’ll never wear that perfume again. Great, now SJP’s Australian fragrance sales are going to plunge! Get ready to be slapped with a lawsuit, all the kangaroos of Oz!
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