Bald eagle drops cat through car windshield on North Carolina highway, driver says

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[cowboyusa]

🤣🤣

[GOPJ]

I’ve seen birds to that with snakes in Florida - they pick up the snake - drop it - pick it up again and drop it a second time so they’re not fighting the thing all the way back to the nest.

[Albion Wilde]

the driver told the dispatcher that the cat did not survive.

Understatement of the century!

Gravity. They say a dime dropped from the top of a skyscraper can kill a pedestrian.

[big truck]

GO BIRDS!!!!!🦅🦅🦅

[Albion Wilde]

We came to work one day and every one of those [Bradford Pear] trees had been cut down.

I love a happy ending. We have had them in our townhome development since the developer bought a train car full of those crap trees. Many of them were taken out by winds and hurricanes, because they are so top-heavy and unstable. Others have survived, but are terribly misshapen because multiple limb structures crack and fall off, and the remains require expensive pruning with a cherry picker. The ones that are as old as the houses unpruned are now taller than the two-story houses and encroach on both side neighbors' yards, requiring them to shell out for pruning, and ruin the small front lawns, between too much shade and too much leaf drop of spring blooms or autumn leaves. I don't hate much, but I hate that species.

[greenbrier]

This is NOT how the CDS works.

[Albion Wilde]

Our missing cat is almost 20 lbs. There are Bald Eagles in the area. I hope we can locate him and bring him home soon.

Hope he didn't get dropped off in North Carolina.

[Dr. Sivana]

I don’t believe this. Who made that windshield? I would have a test run to see if it was defective. That cat would need to be launched from a pumpkin chunker.

Modern windshields are very thin, and not as tough as what we had pre-CAFE. Here in Arizona, a tiny pebble kicked up by a tire can give a windshield a big enough crack that replacement is necessary.

[OldHarbor]

Yep. A horrible choice, the favorite of developers .

Misshapen trees from missing limbs, a good rain storm or freeze always took the toll on them.

A neighbor had one in their back yard, in a corner. After 30+ years in the sheltered spot, it was huge .

New owner moved it, pruned it and it was dead within a few months and then cut down.

Another horrible landscape plant are Red Tips Photinia .

[Labyrinthos]

“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 five-pound cat.”

An adult bald eagle weights 8 to 14 pounds and can fly with prey weighing 4 to 7 pounds.

[dfwgator]

An adult bald eagle weights 8 to 14 pounds and can fly with prey weighing 4 to 7 pounds.

[Labyrinthos]

One day I was sitting on my back porch, and I saw a hawk swoop down beside my deck. He then flew off with a cat in his talons. The cat was screaming bloody murder. The hawk took his snack into a nearby oak tree.

I saw the same thing happen to a friend's pet chicken.

We have two indoor cats. They like to sit by the screen door and stare at the great horned owl that uses our water feature as a giant bird bath. The owl likes to stare back at the cats. The cats are probably thinking that the owl would make a good snack, and the owl is probably thinking that the cats would make a good snack.

[Albion Wilde]

Another horrible landscape plant are Red Tips Photinia .

Thank you for the heads up on that!

[goodnesswins]

Got bad infection...antibiotic IVs sorta solved it...long story

[billorites]

A buddy of mine was a fur trapper (strictly from commercial). He gifted me several pounds of Canadian lynx which I prepared as a stir-fry. I found it a little stringy, tasted fine. What I didn’t care for was picking cat hairs out of my teeth.

[tumblindice]

“As God is my witness, I thought cats could fly.”
Eddie Eagle
I’m Gonna Fry Up An Eagle
time helps some species
species,
species,
come back and grow stronger.
i’m glad one creature
creature,
creature’s,
endangered no longer.
i wanna fry up an eagle,
just to see.
fry up an eagle,
use the Colonel’s recipe.

Tim Cavanagh

[crusty old prospector]

Good one, Steve.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

the driver told the dispatcher that the cat did not survive

The cat was neither alive nor dead before the driver reported it.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Mountain lion meat is said to be very tasty. No jokes about cougars, please.

[TalBlack]

“That cat would need to be launched from a pumpkin chunker.“

That was my take as well.