Eagle Causes Alaskan Power Outage

A lazy bald eagle, which prefers to scavenge in a landfill rather than live off the wild, tried to snatch a deer’s head and take it home. But it weighed too much and the eagle flew it into power lines causing an electical outage.

From the AP here:

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.

Animal rights activists are outraged and plan to picket the city’s power supplier. But they are going to wait until summer to march to Juneau. Its just too cold right now.