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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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Is the eagle ok?
It appears to be OK but hungry. I bet raw cat tastes horrible. Go catch a fish or a squirrel.
Eyrie.
I live in North Carolina.
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.
Are you suggesting cats migrate?
Not at all. They could be carried.
What? An Eagle carrying a cat?
It could grip 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 five-pound cat.
I wish one would catch my wife’s dog. Oops, did I just say that?
Well, I have never eaten cat, but I have eaten....maybe I should just stop right there...
Fly Eagles Fly!
Nearby Haitian: What a wasted dinner
We need more Monty.
A CATastrophe
My wife has a dog, or perhaps she should be more accurately called a princess. She lives in deathly fear that a hawk or an eagle is going to carry her away. Too much AI on TikTok for her (my wife’s)own good.
We had a coyote snatch a terrier off the back porch a few months ago.
What’s the airspeed velocity of an unladen bald eagle?
” I bet raw cat tastes horrible”
...ask a Haitian.
I watched a hawk that caught a squirrel. Took it up in a pine tree.
Proceeded to render the squirrel into thin fajita style strips . Not much left but tufts of fur.
African or European?
Well...would have been fun to hear British natural historian David Attenborough narrate that scene. I can hear it in my head now. lol.
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