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'Garden wallaby' wrestled to ground in Dorset town
2011-05-19 11:45:08
19 May 2011 Last updated at 12:11 Share this page Delicious Digg Facebook reddit StumbleUpon Twitter Email Print 'Garden wallaby' caught in Lyme Regis town centre Off-duty firefighter Virgil Turner said he grabbed the animal's legs and tail Continue reading the main story Related Stories Wallaby filmed in woman's garden Wallaby filmed in woman's garden Wallaby in escape from care home
A wallaby, thought to be the same animal seen in a woman's Dorset garden earlier in the week, has been caught.
Off-duty firefighter Virgil Turner rugby-tackled the marsupial to the ground in Lyme Regis town centre.
Jan Cooper had filmed a wallaby hopping around her garden in Blue Waters Drive, Lyme Regis, on Tuesday morning, before it escaped over her fence.
Mr Turner said the wallaby, which has been taken to an animal park in Exminster, Devon, "kicked a bit".
The 45-year-old added: "My friend called me and he's a trickster so I thought it was a wind up. But I could hear he was serious.
'Subdued it'"When I got there the wallaby was cornered by a couple of council workers and a local woman - but it could have got away still.
"It had already had a couple of near misses with cars and I didn't want a serious car accident on my hands.
"I must admit I was wary because I'd heard they can give quite a kick and can be very strong.
"But I used to play a bit of rugby so I just rugby tackled it - I grabbed its legs and tail and we managed to get a blanket over it which subdued it and then get it into a cage.
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