Kangaroo in a Golf
Jacket?
Intermediate
Kieran McGovern
Two businessmen fly to
Australia to play in a weekend golf tournament. Their team wins and they
both receive green tournament jackets.
On
their last night they stay up drinking beer. In the morning
they are still drunk but they drive their
hire car to the airport. The road
is empty.
Suddenly something jumps in
front of the car. The driver can’t stop in time and
the car hits the animal.
A dead
Kangaroo
The men get out of the car. A
large animal is lying on the road.
'It's a kangaroo,' said the other. 'We've killed a
kangaroo.'
The men begin to laugh. A kangaroo!
'We must take some photos,' says one.
Still
laughing they take out their cameras. Then they sit the
kangaroo up against the car.
'Let's put a tournament jacket on it,' said one. 'That will
look really funny.'
So they dress the poor kangaroo in a green jacket. Then
they pose with him for more photos.
Not Dead Yet
Then something amazing happens.
A kangaroo eye opens.
He is not dead. And now he’s very angry.
The kangaroo punches the driver and knocks him out. He
knocks out the second man. Then he hops away into the
outback.
In the kangaroo’s new green jacket are the car keys
and a passport and the air tickets.
Later that day a motorist phones the police.
‘You’re not going to believe this,’ he
says. ‘But a kangaroo in a green golf jacket is
hopping along the road to the airport!’
