This is an old story. It's about a sharepic that has actually been on social media platforms for years.
It's the kangaroo, more precisely this muscle-bound specimen. It's this photo with a very specific inscription. The inscription has given this photo a certain level of fame because it reads:
In Australia, a kangaroo knocked down a politician while jogging.
Kangaroos. We need more kangaroos.
The image has undergone a few small changes in recent years and the content is sometimes used as a running joke in certain groups. However, nothing has ever changed in its core message:

At this point we have to differentiate between two things: on one side there is the original photo, on the other side there is the inscription. Both together create the Sharepic, but fundamentally have nothing to do with each other. The muscle-bound kangaroo merely serves as a playful visualization of the message.
The kangaroo
In the picture we see Roger. Roger was a well-known representative of his species . He was also probably the most famous kangaroo in the world and achieved quite a lot of fame because of his muscles. died of old age in 2018 at the age of 12 .
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Roger could certainly box (he had gotten his own punching bag) and had great strength, but he had nothing to do with the caption on the sharepic.
The story of the politician and a kangaroo
In fact, the inscription is not a fake, there really was this incident in 2013 when a politician was attacked by a kangaroo while jogging. That politician was Shane Rattenbury, a local politician in the Australian capital Canberra, who still holds a seat as an MLA in the Legislative Council of the Australian Capital Territory.
It is not the case that the kangaroo specifically jumped at the politician and knocked him down, but rather that the two collided by chance (the animal was grazing). In the moment of shock and during the escape, the politician may have been knocked over. At least that's how Rattenbury described the rough collision (compare here and here ).
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