Eagle drops deer on power line, causes outage

CNN: The power went out in East Missoula, Montana, after a bald eagle dropped a fawn on a powerline. KPAX reports.
Sagemindsays...

We don't know how high up the deer was dropped from. Dropping that kind of wieght on the wire would yank the ends of the wire, posibly ripping several of the internal wires from the post.

>> ^mxxcon:

But why would a deer landing on a single wire cause any outage? There's no shorting or line breaking...

alizarinsays...

>> ^Longswd:

I suspect it was a swallow. He could have gripped it by the husk.


It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a simple question of weight ratios! A five ounce bird could not carry a 10 pound fawn. Now supposing two swallows carried it together?

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