Found January 22, 2012 on
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Entering last year's Australian Open, Caroline Wozniacki was considered a boring interview subject. Heeding the criticism, the world No. 1 decided to spice things up by telling the press a story about getting beat up by a baby kangaroo.
Some particularly gullible reporters followed up the story before Wozniacki came back to tell everyone that she made it all up. Everyone laughed, Wozniacki got some positive press and we figured that's the last we'd ever hear of the tale.
But not everyone had a smile that day. No, the folks at at Australian Society for Kangaroos were displeased.
"By claiming last year that she had been attacked by a kangaroo, Caroline created headlines around the world and gave one of our standard-bearer animals a regrettable image of being aggressive and dangerous," spokeswoman Fiona Corke said, according to the Herald Sun, evidently forgetting that kangaroos boxing human have been amusing mankind since the advent of moving pictures. (It's ...
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