A hospital worker from Connecticut is having trouble being taken seriously by her woman car insurance firm after tangling with some bizarre wildlife on Route 66.
The reaction from staff at the motor insurance company was typical. First a stunned silence, then total disbelief from the operator who must have assumed it was a prank call: "Ma'am, this call is being taped."
The animal in question was a wallaby.
"Nobody believes me," says Ellen Jagielo, who had called reporting damage to her bumper. "They wait for the punch line."
Wallabies, come from the same family as kangaroos, and are rarely seen outside Australia. The animal which hopped into Ms Jagielo's oncoming headlights is thought to be an escaped exotic pet.
It is not known whether her woman car insurance company stumped up the money for bumper repairs - but according to reports Jagielo returned to work the next day to find a "Kangaroo Xing" sign on her office door, a stuffed kangaroo on her desk and a wallaby screensaver on her computer.