Three women from the town of Best in North Brabant encountered a very strange road user when they were returning home from the cinema. A huge wallaby jumped in front of their car for a considerable distance before stopping, staring at them and then changing into the bike lane, said driver Sylvia van der Donk. Omroep Brabant. The wallaby escaped from BestZoo on Thursday. It has also been seen in Asten and Neerkant and has so far escaped capture.

Sylvia and her friends Patricia and Elles were at the cinema in Veghel and were driving home along the Sonseweg in Best when they suddenly noticed “something” in the middle of the road.

“I was still thinking about Halloween. Or a deer. We were getting closer. I stopped and turned on the emergency lights. “My friend started filming.” They were very surprised to realize that they were looking at a wallaby. Sylvia was terrified that the animal would jump on her car. “He came towards us. I only have a Swift. Then my car would have been a total loss. And then the animal would have been injured or killed.”

Sylvia began driving at a pace and turned on her high beams, hoping to convince the animal to move over. “But he stood still on the road. He looked at me. I stopped too. “Then he started jumping again,” she said. “I was jumping at 25 kilometers an hour.”

His friends called the police. “They thought we had been drinking. They didn’t believe it at all. And of course we laughed a little because you’re not expecting it. But I hadn’t been drinking.”

The wallaby finally jumped onto the bike path and disappeared. Syliva called BestZoo the next day. “They said they just couldn’t catch him. A tranquilizer dart wouldn’t work for another ten minutes. They said I should have grabbed him by the tail. But I didn’t grab anything because it was too big.”