Big red roo attacks elderly Qld woman

Ninety-four-year-old Phyllis Johnson saw a blur of red fur as she was taking the Sunday washing from the line in the backyard of her Charleville home.
A red kangaroo - taller than Ms Johnson's 160-plus centimetre frame - ploughed through the clothes and slammed her to the ground, then powerfully kicked the prone woman.
"I was scared," she told Channel Seven.
"It was taller than me.
"I started singing out help, help.
"I thought I was going to die."
Ms Johnson managed to get to her feet and grab a nearby broom to engage in single combat with the attacker.
Striking at it several times, she dazed the angry roo before making it to the safety of her granny flat.
Her son Rob Johnson arrived home from church to see his mother huddled inside and a roo in his shed.
"She fought it off herself with a bit of help from the family dog," Mr Johnson told AAP on Tuesday.
"When she told me the roo was still here I went and had a look and found it in my workshop.
"Then it had a bit of a go at me."
Mr Johnson said he picked up a stick to scare it but the roo didn't flinch.
He then ran inside and phoned the police.
Senior Sergeant Steve Perkins said it was one of the more unusual callouts he'd had.
Even two male officers who arrived on the scene found the roo difficult to subdue.
Both were forced to ward off an attack with capsicum spray.
"It was aggressive. It attacked one of the officers," Sen Sgt Perkins told AAP.
He sprayed it with capsicum spray and then it turned its attention to the other officer who also had to deploy the spray.
The roo hung around the Johnsons' home but National Parks and Wildlife officers have since taken it away.
Mr Johnson said he hoped the roo would be relocated somewhere away from homes.
"It's not frightened of people at all," he said.
"It's a real danger.
"If my mum didn't have the broom to chase it away, it could have killed her."
He said his mother had a huge gash to her leg and was recovering at Charleville Hospital.