# Eagle carries away head and fries. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 2, 2007, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eagle-carries-away-head-and-fries/390535 "2007-02-02T14:01:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eagle-carries-away-head-and-fries/390535/1 "2007-02-02T14:01:07Z")
It’s not a happy meal. Remember the recent thread about birds of prey being able to carry away small dogs and such? This eagle lifted a deer head from a landfill, and got fried in power lines. [Article](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16875766?GT1=8921) ---
**Author:** ![Rodd\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Rodd\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodd_Hill)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eagle-carries-away-head-and-fries/390535/2 "2007-02-02T17:15:58Z")
Well, obviously the fries added extra weight, and the eagle couldn’t clear the power lines. Shouldn’t have gone for the full meal deal. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eagle-carries-away-head-and-fries/390535/3 "2007-02-02T17:22:36Z")
A eagle trying to cook dinner – who’d a thunk it! ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eagle-carries-away-head-and-fries/390535/4 "2007-02-02T17:40:15Z")
Those Eagles are getting greedy. They just recently thought a [paraglider](http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/02/01/eagles.attack.reut/index.html) looked tasty enough to try and take down. Never mind dolphins. The Reign of Eagles is upon us. ---
**Author:** ![Cowgirl\_Jules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@Cowgirl\_Jules](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowgirl_Jules)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eagle-carries-away-head-and-fries/390535/5 "2007-02-02T18:02:35Z")
One of my treatment plants was once shut down for a couple of days by a fighting kestrel and something like a Peregrine Falcon. They hit the power line, and it fried them both (and popped the circuit and overloaded a bunch of our equipment.) We found them hanging on the wire, dead and instantly stiff, the talons of one still locked into the wing of the other. When the linemen got them down for us, they smelled cooked. Sadly, I’ve just spent a half hour looking through the thousands of photos that I have of this place, and can’t find those, which puts the incident back around 2000 or 1999. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eagle-carries-away-head-and-fries/390535/6 "2007-02-02T22:20:01Z")
A thread enshrining this incident has [already taken flight, stalled, and ker-plunked](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=406216) into the third, and sadly overlooked, page of MPSIMS threads. Mods, can we have a Frankenthreading here, and keep the original one aloft a bit longer, soaring on its wings of song and bad puns? It’s a feather in your cap if you fix it so… ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eagle-carries-away-head-and-fries/390535/7 "2007-02-02T23:36:12Z")
I hope it wasn’t Stephen Jr.