September 22, 2009
Workplace pests can take many forms. Mice nibbling at cables, fleas hopping across carpets, even lecherous colleagues lurking in the stationery room are all part and parcel of working life and, as such, evoke no sympathy whatsover.
But even Guru experienced a fleeting twinge of compassion on hearing of the plight of beleagured Australian psychologist Suzanne Habib.
Habib had to be rescued from her Queensland office last week when a "frantic" kangaroo smashed through the window and began leaping around. Colleague Tony Baddock, displaying that famous Australian skill for telling it as it is, said: "Poor old Suzanne just screamed and went straight up in the air."
Baddock led his distressed colleague to safety, helping her over a toppled bookshelf in the process, before "persuading" the kangaroo to hop out of the building and on its way.
Who'd have thought that chivalry was alive and well - and in an Australian office, of all places?
Photo by g[wiz].
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