Woman hospitalised after being attacked by kangaroo at Gold Coast home
A WOMAN has been taken to hospital following a feisty fight with a kangaroo at her house on the Gold Coast.
Paramedics say they were called to a private residence at Coombabah just before 2.30pm on Tuesday.
They arrived to find a woman, believed to be aged in her 50s, covered in multiple lacerations and scratches.
She had reportedly become embroiled in a brutal battle with a wild kangaroo after it bailed her up in her yard.
A Queensland Ambulance spokesperson told myGC the woman was lucky to walk away with only minor injuries.
She was transported to the Gold Coast University Hospital in a stable condition.
Female 50s stable to Gold Coast Uni Hospital after an incident involving a Kangaroo at a private residence in #Coombabah just before 2.30pm.
— Queensland Ambulance (@QldAmbulance) July 5, 2017