Now that's a Bird!

[Mark Twain]

JUNEAU, Alaska - About 10,000 Juneau residents briefly lost power after a bald eagle lugging a deer head crashed into transmission lines.

"You have to live in Alaska to have this kind of outage scenario," said Gayle Wood, an Alaska Electric Light & Power spokeswoman. "This is the story of the overly ambitious eagle who evidently found a deer head in the landfill."

The bird, weighed down by the deer head, apparently failed to clear the transmission lines, she said. A repair crew found the eagle dead, the deer head nearby.

The power was out for less than 45 minutes Sunday.

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All I can say is wow. :0

 

[Swissy]

:laugh:

How about the Alaska Airlines jet that had to return to the airport there a few years ago because an eagle dropped a whole salmon and it hit the windshield of the jet and cracked it! Plane had to circle to dump fuel then made an emergency landing!

Yup... Alaska is not for the feint of heart!

 

[dav1041]

Hey...around here you have to watch out for the dead squirrels in the road! Those things are every where!

 

[Smoking Mex]

Too bad no pic's were available that must have been something to see. :whistling:

 

[The Volusianator]

Bummer for the Eagle.

 

[BrownDevil]

Alaska must be the weirdest spot in the US :whistling:

 

[fenian'98]

Next thing you know the power company will be charged with killing an endangered bird!