NT: Policeman woken when buffalo knocks
ALICE SPRINGS, NT, Aug 28 AAP - A thrown thong was enough to deter a wild buffalo intenton ramming a policeman's Top End home at the weekend.
Northern Territory Police Constable Clay Evans said he was in bed in his elevated Maranboyhome, 50km south-west of Katherine, when the house started to shake before dawn on Sunday.
"I woke up and the whole house was shaking," Con Evans told today's NT News.
"I went out to the back verandah and there stood a huge bull with massive horns.
"It was nudging the stairs with its head, but it was a pretty heavy animal - a wild buffalo."
Concerned that the buffalo would seriously damage the house, Const Evans threw theflimsy footwear.
"I didn't know what it would do, but the animal just trotted off," the policeman said.
"My house is considered a yard for buffalo who often come to eat the grass but nothinglike this has happened before."
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KEYWORD: BUFFALO
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