Bald Eagle, Carrying Fish, Crashes Into Alaska House

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KETCHIKAN, Alaska --A bald eagle crashed through a window of a home and landed in the living room, scattering broken glass, feathers and a salmon carcass across the floor. Homeowner Jean Stack heard the crash and initially wondered if someone had thrown a dead fish through the window.

"I stopped in my tracks and thought, 'Oh my gosh," she said.

But then she heard her neighbor, Kurt Haskin, yelling. He saw the whole thing from his deck.

Haskin had been drinking coffee and watching eagles from his deck shortly before 6 a.m. Monday. He said one eagle was on his roof, and three more were in a nearby tree. Another pair occupied a tree across an alley.

"They were fighting, thrashing around; there were leaves and limbs (shaking)," Haskin said. "This was all within 50 feet of me, and I was thinking this was pretty cool."

Then one eagle swooped out of the nearby tree, up past Haskin's head, around the eagle on the roof and back behind the tree, said Haskin.

"I didn't notice it was packing a fish when it swooped over me," he said.

The eagle re-emerged and bore down on Stack's bay window, which is about 15 feet off the ground.

"It just grenaded that window," Haskin said. "The window didn't even slow it down."

But the jolt apparently shook the fish and some feathers free. A moment later, the eagle popped out the hole where the window had been.

"It was only about four or five seconds, then it must have gathered its wits and flew back out of there," Haskin said.

Stack was awake in bed when the eagle hit.

"I heard this tremendous noise," Stack said. "I thought, 'What in the world was that?' It was so loud, and I didn't know where it was."

When she reached the living room she found glass from one end of the room to the other. "There was this huge fish carcass right where my dog usually slept," she said. "It didn't have a head. It was at least two feet long -- just the back bone and the tail."

There were feathers about eight feet into the room, she said.

When Haskin began calling and asking whether she was OK, Stack went outside and got the story.

"I said, 'There was an eagle in your living room,'" Haskin said. "I just couldn't believe it."

http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2005/06/14/fish_toting_eagle_crashes_into_alaska_home?mode=PF

[Spinzonner]

1. Well, that eagle had a real fish story to tell its feathered friends

[DRoseDARs]

2. I watched an owl try to fly through a second-story window at my college...

None of the windows on that building open. Opps. It was like watching a cartoon unfold in live-action: Owl smacks window, hovers briefly slides striahgt down, plops on the ground, gets up dazed and confused, then stumbles off. The magpie that was chasing it landed safely nearby and seemed to not want to harass the owl further.

[underpants]

3. So there is this guy, really poor, with his son at Christmas time

"Daddy what are we going to have for Christmas dinner", asks the boy.

The father is thinking of what to say when he sees a large bird just outside the window. "Uh we are going to have wild goose son"

The man goes outside and kills the bird. Unfortunately it is one of the endangered California Condors and he is arrested.

At the end of the trial the judge asks the man if he has anything to say. The man tells his sad story and how all he wanted was for his son to go to bed on Christmas not hungry. The judge is so moved that he decides to let the man go but before he does he has one question-"What did it taste like?"

The man replies, "Mmmmm kinda somewhere between a bald eagle and baby seal".

[matcom]

4. SNARF!!

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