Odd News: Eagle lugging a deer head causes outage

[Kevin]

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

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"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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Never seen a eagle just lug around a whole deer head... Eagle must have declared jihad on the deer.

[jimpierce7]

awwwww...... poor Eagle. Man what a sight that must have been. The Eagle carrying the deer head.

[raddaughter]

Poor eagle, poor deer. That must have been amazing to see an eagle carrying a deer head.