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Beast in Her Backyard

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  • Reenactment: Kirrily notices an aggressive kangaroo in her backyard. As it starts to come after her, she crouches down into a ball to protect her vital organs, as kangaroos are not as cute and cuddly as they look.
  • Reenactment: Kirrily is stalked by a kangaroo in the back garden of her home. After days of showing aggressive behavior, it bounds straight toward her at high speed.
  • Peter and his wife Kirrily live a four-hour drive north of Sydney on Australias east coast and they love their semi-rural lifestyle. Peter received a frantic call from him wife about an aggressive kangaroo.
  • Kirrily McWilliams was attacked in her own backyard.
  • Bondi Beach is a popular beach in Sydney, Australia. It was here that Glenn was attacked by a shark.
  • Australia has one of the highest incidents of shark attack in the world and numbers are growing.
  • Glenn embarks on a sunset surf at Sydneys famous Bondi Beach, but just as he paddles out to catch a wave, he is attacked by a 10-foot Great White shark
  • Reenactment: Glenn started paddling out for an early evening surf. It was dusk and although the water was murky and the conditions were rough, there were about 40 other surfers in the water. With the shark nets up, so sharks were not even a consideration for him.
  • Glenn Orgias decided to go for an early evening surf. While in the water, he was attacked by a shark.
  • Reenactment: Eighteen-year-old Drewe was having fun with friends at a local swimming hole in tropical Queensland when he decided to go for a night swim.
  • Drewe decided to go for a swim. Suddenly his friends noticed a Saltwater Crocodile racing towards him. They screamed for him to get out of the river but, by the time he raised his head out the water to hear what they are saying, it was too late.
  • Drew Ramsden was attacked by a saltwater crocodile while swimming in Queensland.

  • Backyard Beast

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    Reenactment: Kirrily notices an aggressive kangaroo in her backyard.  As it starts to come after her, she crouches down into a ball to protect her vital organs, as kangaroos are not as cute and cuddly as they look.

  • Violent Marsupial

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    Reenactment: Kirrily is stalked by a kangaroo in the back garden of her home. After days of showing aggressive behavior, it bounds straight toward her at high speed. 

  • Protecting His Family

    Photograph by Seven Network

    Peter and his wife Kirrily live a four-hour drive north of Sydney on Australia’s east coast and they love their semi-rural lifestyle.  Peter received a frantic call from him wife about an aggressive kangaroo.

  • Kangaroo Attack Survivor

    Photograph by Seven Network

    Kirrily McWilliams was attacked in her own backyard.

  • Swimming Spot

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    Bondi Beach is a popular beach in Sydney, Australia.  It was here that Glenn was attacked by a shark.

  • Great Big Jaws

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    Australia has one of the highest incidents of shark attack in the world and numbers are growing.

  • Bondi Beach

    Photograph by Getty Images

    Reenactment: Glenn embarks on a sunset surf at Sydney’s famous Bondi Beach, but just as he paddles out to catch a wave, he is attacked by a 10-foot Great White shark.

  • Paddling Out

    Photograph by Getty Images

    Reenactment: Glenn started paddling out for an early evening surf.  It was dusk and although the water was murky and the conditions were rough, there were about 40 other surfers in the water.  With the shark nets up, so sharks were not even a consideration for him.

  • Shark Attack Survivor

    Photograph by Seven Network

    Glenn Orgias decided to go for an early evening surf.  While in the water, he was attacked by a shark.

  • Local Watering Hole

    Photograph by Getty Images

    Reenactment: Eighteen-year-old Drewe was having fun with friends at a local swimming hole in tropical Queensland when he decided to go for a night swim. 

  • A Salty Predator

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    Reenactment: Drewe decided to go for a swim.  Suddenly his friends noticed a Saltwater Crocodile racing towards him. They screamed for him to get out of the river but, by the time he raised his head out the water to hear what they are saying, it was too late.

  • Croc Attack Survivor

    Photograph by Seven Network

    Drew Ramsden was attacked by a saltwater crocodile while swimming in Queensland.

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