Published: January 29, 2007
Last Modified: January 29, 2007 at 02:07 PM
JUNEAU - About 10,000 Juneau residents briefly lost power Sunday 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 hefty bounty apparently bogged down the eagle, which failed to clear transmission lines as it flew away from the landfill, she said. When a repair crew arrived, they found the eagle carcass with the deer head nearby.
This eagle "got a hold of a little bit more than he could handle," Wood said.
Power was out less than 45 minutes.
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From adn.com
3 comments:
This news story is better than some of the terrible things that can happen in more civilized parts of the world,(like Southern California.)
May eagles fly pass you. And God keep you from harm.
Love Uncle Jerry, Aunt Pam, Cousins Sean, Brianna, Ryan, and Opal (woof)
I loved this story too. Hilarious.
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