Friday, June 17, 2011

Eagle Dropping Dear Fawn on High Voltage Lines Causes Montana Power Outage


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A deer fawn apparently dropped by a bald eagle onto a high-voltage line was behind a power outage this week in western Montana, a Northwestern Energy official said on Friday.
"It's a first-time thing," Northwestern spokeswoman Michelle Sullivan said. "A deer dangling on the line, that's never happened before."
Eagle dropping fawn on high voltage lines causes Montana power outage

Sullivan said linemen investigating the cause of the outage in a rural neighborhood of East Missoula couldn't believe their eyes when they found the carcass of the fawn draped over electric wires more than two stories high.
Workers blamed the eagle after homeowner Lee Bridges reported that one of the birds had spent 15 minutes perched in a spruce in her yard that morning just after the neighborhood lost electricity.
When Northwestern crews arrived, Bridges approached a repairman to learn what caused the outage.
"He pointed up to the sky and said, 'There's your problem -- a flying deer,'" said Bridges.
She said the eagle, one of a family nesting on the nearby Clark Fork River, had likely been plotting how to retrieve what remained of its prey.
Bridges collected her camera and began shooting pictures.
"I thought nobody was going to believe this," she said.
Bald eagles can have wingspans of nearly 8 feet and weigh up to 14 pounds. Accounts suggest the fawn was just days old, if that.
Northwestern's Sullivan said the outage lasted roughly half an hour and affected about 30 homes.
The regional company serves about 665,000 customers in Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska.

JOKE: three legged chickens

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A man was driving down the road and noticed a three legged chicken racing along beside his car.  When he looked at the speedometer he realized that the chicken was running over 75 miles per hour. The amazed driver followed the chicken for several miles until the chicken turned down a gravel road. The driver followed the chicken to a huge poultry farm. All around the farm there were three legged chickens as far as the eye could see.  The driver stopped his car and then seeing the farmer feeding the chickens he asked him about the three legged chickens.  "Well you see," started the farmer, "I am a genetic engineer and the leg is my favorite piece of chicken. It is also the favorite piece of my wife and my son. I got tired of having everybody fighting over the leg at dinner so I just developed a chicken with enough legs for us all."  "What a great idea!"said the driver, "How do these three legged chickens taste?"  "Well, "said the scientific farmer, "I don't know. I've never been able to catch one!"

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