( CNN ) -- What do you do when your 10-year-old son wakes up in the middle of the night screaming , `` There 's a 'roo in my room ! '' Beat Ettlin wrestled a kangaroo out of his house near Canberra after it crashed through a window . If you 're Beat Ettlin , you wrest the marsupial into a headlock , drag it down your hallway and toss it out your front door . Ettlin and his family were woken early Sunday when a 6-foot-tall kangaroo crashed through a window , landed on their bed and thrashed around their house in the suburb of Garran , south of the capital of Canberra , Australia . `` At first , he ( my husband ) thought it was a lunatic ninja , '' said Ettlin 's wife , Verity Beman . `` It leaped through the window , this martial-arts kind of figure . It was very Jackie Chan . '' The family 's one-story house is in a suburb that butts against a kangaroo reserve . About 2 a.m. Sunday , their dog began barking furiously . Possibly possums , they thought . The family had put up with possums scampering across their roof every night since they moved in three weeks ago . Moments later , the window was smashed and a black figure landed on their bed . Ettlin , after gathering his wits about him , exclaimed , `` It 's OK . It 's only a kangaroo , '' Beman recalled . `` I was cowered under the quilt , thinking , 'No , it 's not OK , ' '' she said . The kangaroo jumped on top of the blanket that Beman and her 9-year-old daughter were hiding under . It then leaped onto the nightstand , punched holes in the furniture and left blood stains on the wall as it bounced into their son 's room . `` That 's when his male instinct kicked in , '' Beman said of her husband . After putting the 90-pound creature in a choke hold , Ettlin kept it low to the ground and pulled it toward the front door . He knew that kangaroos carry their strength on their hind legs , Beman said . `` He held it by one arm . He opened the front door with the other , then the screen door , '' she said . `` It bounced across our veranda and bounced away . '' Ettlin is a chef , originally from the Swiss city of Stans . Beman thinks he would not have tackled the kangaroo so readily were he Australian . `` They would be fully aware of the risk , '' she said . The house in shambles -- with blood and shattered glass everywhere -- Ettlin stood surveying the damage in his shredded underpants . Scratch marks ran down his leg , but otherwise he was fine . `` I kept marveling at what he did , '' Beman said . `` I called him my hero . My hero in Bonds undies . ''
Beat Ettlin wrestles with kangaroo that leapt through window into house . Kangaroo jumped into son 's room but Ettlin got it in a headlock . Wife : `` It leaped through the window , this martial-arts figure . It was very Jackie Chan ''