Posted on 11/21/2025 9:34:50 AM PST by crusty old prospector
A driver in North Carolina told emergency responders that a bald eagle dropped a cat that crashed through her windshield, police said.
The incident happened around 8:15 a.m. Wednesday on U.S. Route 74 in Swain County, North Carolina Highway Patrol said. The driver was not injured.
Highway patrol did not provide additional information.
A photo shared by officials showed the car's broken windshield with a massive hole.
In a 911 call, obtained by WLOS-TV, the driver told the dispatcher that the cat did not survive.
"OK, you may not believe me, but I just had a bald eagle drop a cat through my windshield," the 911 call said, according to WLOS. "It absolutely shattered my windshield."
"I had a witness who was like, 'That is the craziest thing I've ever seen,'" the caller added.
Bald eagles are predatory birds that can stand up to 3 feet tall and have a wingspan stretching more than 8 feet. They weigh between 8 to 14 pounds and can typically carry things between 3 to 5 pounds.
Domestic cats are about 2 feet long and weigh between 5 to 20 pounds. While bald eagles can carry smaller cats, they are not a common prey for the bird.
In 2019, a large catfish crashed through a woman's windshield in North Carolina after reportedly getting dropped by a flying bird.
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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.
Understatement of the century!
Gravity. They say a dime dropped from the top of a skyscraper can kill a pedestrian.
GO BIRDS!!!!!🦅🦅🦅
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.
This is NOT how the CDS works.
Hope he didn't get dropped off in North Carolina.
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 .
“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.
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.
Thank you for the heads up on that!
Got bad infection...antibiotic IVs sorta solved it...long story
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.
“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
Good one, Steve.
The cat was neither alive nor dead before the driver reported it.
Mountain lion meat is said to be very tasty. No jokes about cougars, please.
“That cat would need to be launched from a pumpkin chunker.“
That was my take as well.
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