Let the eagle soar — but without the deer head
Bird carrying too-large burden crashes into lines, knocks out power
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updated 6:44 p.m. ET Jan. 29, 2007
JUNEAU, Alaska - 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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