Eagle With Deer Head Knocks Out Power

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Eagle lugging a deer head causes outage




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[/align][/align]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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"Tower this is Flight 247. We're experiencing complications with our approach, over."

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And just think, we only have problems with stupid squirrels bridging the transformer coils. Not quite as exciting as a eagle and a deer head, but makes for a great booming sound. That is just before the lights go out. Pretty much frys the squirrel as well.