Somewhere between a Waffle House and a fever dream, Alabama managed to out-Florida Florida: a kangaroo shut down I-85 and caused a two-car pileup. Yep, a kangaroo. On the highway. In Alabama. Not Australia.
Sheila (yes, her name is Sheila—because of course it is) broke free from some kind of petting zoo and took her talents to Tuskegee like she was trying to make the Auburn starting lineup.
No one was hurt, unless you count egos and every last brain cell that tried to process the sentence “kangaroo causes crash on I-85.” Local cops had to livestream the chase like it was Kangaroo Cops, complete with a tranquilizer takedown. Roll Tide, right?
And while animal rights folks are using this as Exhibit A for why kangaroos shouldn’t be backyard pets (solid point, to be fair), I think the real takeaway is this: if Alabama’s gonna start tossing wild marsupials onto highways, then the rest of us better step it up. What’s your school bringing to the chaos game? A goose in a sorority house? A llama at tailgate? That’s JV now.
Sheila’s the SEC’s newest wildcard, and honestly? She earned it.
H/T Outdoors
