By Andrew Hough 430PM GMT nineteen March 2010
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Mr Striegl was left with facial injuries and a black eye after he was pounded by a kangaroo in Canberra. Photo EPA 
Though rare, it is not odd for kangaroos to conflict humans. Photo AFP/GETTY 
The fighting kangaroo, graphic here on a dwindle that flew over Vancouver at the new Winter Olympics, is an barbarous Australian informative mascot. Photo GETTY IMAGES In a genuine hold up e.g. of the country"s barbarous "Boxing Kangaroo" mascot, the twenty-five year-old was out using when he was pounded by the brute animal on Thursday.
The Australian Rules football player, from Canberra, the countrys capital, was afterwards knocked comatose after it punched him in the face and remembers small about the unprovoked attack.
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Mr Striegl, who functions in a corporate genuine estate office, was found by a flitting engineer who took the confused and full of blood plant to hospital.
His usually damage seemed to be a little cuts and bruises, a black eye and a bleeding ego with his colleagues creation fun of his set-back and giving him a new nickname "Skippy".
"The main thing they"ve been asking is either I got one (punch) behind on the roo," he told the Australian Associated Press.
"I can"t even contend that, since one punch and it put me to the floor.
"All my years of personification football and never a fight, and afterwards I have a quarrel with a kangaroo."
He had been using up the city"s Mount Ainslie during his lunch mangle and did not think twice when he speckled one of the proprietor kangaroos nearby.
The bushland haven in the nation"s collateral is renouned with joggers and cyclists and assaults by the marsupials who share the towering are rare. Though exceptional, it is not odd for kangaroos to conflict humans
The conflict comes a year after a nine-foot kangaroo invaded a residence in Canberra during the night, terrifying the occupants prior to going on a uproar by their home.
Beat Ettlin, his partner Verity Beman and their nine-year-old daughter Beatrix hid underneath blankets as the two-metre high animal jumped on tip of them and gouged holes and their furniture.
Mr Ettlin in the future wrestled the thrashing animal and dragged it out of the house, saving his family from critical injury.
"My primary thought when I was half watchful was it"s a goofy ninja entrance by the window," he pronounced at the time.
The prior year a jogger was pounded by a kangaroo in the outdoor Melbourne suburb of Sunbury.
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