The animal had cut itself when it crashed through the bedroom window late on Sunday night, and was frantically trying to escape. During the initial commotion, Mr Ettlin, his wife and nine-year-old daughter Beatrix, cowered beneath the bedsheets. They only realised the full extent of the danger when the kangaroo bounded into his ten-year-old son Leighton's bedroom and the boy screamed: "There's a roo in my room".