AP reports from 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 real sorrow about this is that per EPA which the state has to follow, requires dead animals to be covered with dirt immediately to prevent such horrible things. This is the Bird that represents our Country and to live in Alaska and see so many one show seel blessed and protective about the bird, and what something to change so that it didn't happen that way again. Man is taking too much from the animals and pushing them too far. If someone was caught killing an Eagle it would be federal time, well, someone did, whoever was responsible for covering the deer with deer caused that eagle's death, here in Texas you'd be in jail, it would be no different that manslaughter, but murder all the same. Please treasure what you have in Alaska, it is so sacred and precious, fight to keep man from changing that part of the world as much as possible, and please for the rest of us Americans who don't have the ability to see such wonderful times in real life, honor them for us, Keep them sacred and protected, I felt that this article was all too lighthearted and "OH, Well, dumb bird"
Posted by: ladyhawk7 | January 31, 2007 at 01:52 AM
Probably the writer realized, as most writers do, that very few readers care to be lectured and most of them prefer to draw their own moral inferences without assistance from their betters. The point you make about the carcass disposal regulations is an interesting one, and I think it could stand alone without the histrionics, but that's a writing teacher talking. Of course you're free to write any way you want on your own dime.
Posted by: gail | January 31, 2007 at 07:09 AM
The spokesperson says it was in a landfill, not lying out in the wild by the way.
Posted by: gail | January 31, 2007 at 09:32 AM
Let this be a lesson to all who order take-out.
Posted by: joated | January 31, 2007 at 03:31 PM