Eagle lugging a deer head causes outage

Mathew Everett 6 Feb, 2007 at 10:32am ET Article published in Tech

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.

“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 power was out for less than 45 minutes.

Comments

6 Feb 2007 ~ 11:24am Ryder Link to the news story?
6 Feb 2007 ~ 12:11pm Leonardo Anchorage Daily News link

I'm not in Juneau, which is hundreds of miles south of me, but eagles and ravens are frequently in the news here all over Alaska. The Eagle River fire station, which I drive by frequently, is a congregation point for eagles. Once when I was driving by, I had to grab a foot full of brakes. A whole flock, 15 to 20 bald eagles was flying across the road to the fire station. Once or twice a week, someone throws out salmon parts for the birds at the station's parking lot. Also, when the Anchorage hockey team plays, it's a tradition to toss a salmon to the eagles at the fire station when the team scores.
6 Feb 2007 ~ 6:46pm Sledgehammer70 OOPs... I saw it in the pending news for so long , I just copied it and posted Thanks Leo
6 Feb 2007 ~ 6:54pm AlphaTrinity Is SM taking a break from the whole "newest technology and technology news" thing with this article? It's pretty random :bigggrin:

or maybe it's just over my head?
6 Feb 2007 ~ 7:44pm Linc Oh we just throw in a fun thing every once in a while, heh.
6 Feb 2007 ~ 7:51pm AlphaTrinity All right, good enough for me
That poor deer

ooo..Lancaster County PA, same as me
6 Feb 2007 ~ 11:04pm Leonardo

"This would have been a major score," Wood said. "That eagle would have been the king eagle of the Lemon Creek group."

So reports the Juneau Empire.

Is SM taking a break from the whole "newest technology and technology news" thing with this article? It's pretty random

Part of our 'Front Page' - main site format is "Shorties", that is news articles in brief on any topic. We're working on it, but apparently we didn't catologue this report correctly.