Nov. 13 (UPI) — A couple arrived at their home in Australia after midnight to find their bedroom occupied by an unexpected intruder: a koala.
Fran Dias Rufino posted a video to Facebook showing the scene she and her husband, Brunno, faced at their home in Rosslyn Park, South Australia.
“Only in Australia,” she wrote in the caption of the video, which shows a koala exploring the bedroom as Rufino shouts in Portuguese.
Rufino, who is from Brazil, told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. that she “forgot how to speak English” after seeing the marsupial in her home.
“I thought, ‘Oh my God, there’s a koala in my bedroom,’ and… [Brunno] said, ‘Ma’am, what are you doing? Why are you shouting? ” she recalled.
Rufino called for expert help as her husband tried to restrain the koala.
“Brunno tried to hold him down with some clothes and he grabbed the clothes and I called for the koala rescue and I forgot how to speak in English and I started speaking Spanish – and I don’t speak Spanish,” Rufino said.
The koala was eventually lured out of the house and then climbed a tree in the couple’s garden.
“I think he’s part of the family now,” Rufino said.
