Eagle lugging a deer head causes outage Mon Jan 29, 9:53 PM ET



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.

The power was out for less than 45 minutes Sunday.



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Yep! All kinds of strange things happen up here. Do you remember the pictures floating on the Internet of an electrocuted brown bear? That happened here. Also the moose hanging by the antlers on the power lines.

But I am certain that all sorts of fake stories relating to those pictures will be posted on the Internet

Not only in AK we had a great horned owl take out a small sub station leaving a couple townships without power for 3 days.

Blew up a good size transformer.

Ha ha ha ha

Right while I was trying to shave too!!!!

Got a few nick in the low light.

The classic eagle-induced power outage goes like this: an eagle is flying over the main transmission line from Snettisham (64kva) He decides to take a crap while flying. The crap is like a long piece of string and bridges two of the high voltage wires and causes it to short out. This happens a lot to us poor folks in J-town.


MM

The OCB,s will burn thru a squirrel by the 2nd bump,, most of the time and a crow also ... But a raven or iggle will dump part or all of the town every time... I imagine an owl getting into a substation would make things real lively!!!!!!!

It's funny how my perception of bald eagles changed after living in Alaska. They are majestic creatures to be sure but when you go to the dump and there are like 200 picking through the trash, you get a little bit different perspective on them...

Hot damn,

The whole incident got a plug on the Colbert Report tonite. Pretty cool stuff!


MM