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2025-11-23 -Short Attention Span Theater-
North Carolina driver says bald eagle dropped cat through her windshield: 'You may not believe me'
[FoxNews] A driver in North Carolina told a dispatcher that a cat carcass had crashed into her windshield along a highway after the feline was dropped from the sky by a bald eagle.

The woman called 911 on Wednesday morning to report the incident, saying that a bald eagle had dropped the cat into the passenger side of her front windshield on U.S. Route 74 in Swain County, near Bryson City, which is located about 65 miles southwest of Asheville.

It is unclear if the cat slipped from the eagle's talons or was dropped intentionally.

"You may not believe me, but I just had a bald eagle drop a cat through my windshield," the driver said on the 911 call. "It absolutely shattered my windshield."
Thank goodness the poor creature fell through the passenger side, or the driver would have been as dead as the cat. That’s a lifetime of luck used up right there. Photo:



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Posted by Skidmark 2025-11-23 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1821 views ]  Top

1 Bald eagles, why do they hate us?
Posted by Super Hose 2025-11-23 06:46||   2025-11-23 06:46|| Front Page Top

2 Did it pounce?
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-11-23 07:11||   2025-11-23 07:11|| Front Page Top

3 Terminal Velocity of a Falling Cat

The terminal velocity of a falling cat is approximately 60 mph (97 km/h) This relatively low speed is due to the cat's small size, light bone structure, and ability to increase its surface area by spreading its legs, which enhances air resistance Once a cat reaches this terminal velocity, typically after falling about five stories, it often relaxes and assumes a spread-eagle posture, effectively acting like a parachute to further reduce impact forces This adaptation significantly improves survival chances, especially from falls of seven stories or more, where injury rates are observed to decrease
Posted by Skidmark 2025-11-23 07:17||   2025-11-23 07:17|| Front Page Top

4 How did she know it was a bald eagle?
Posted by Penguin_of_the_best_desert 2025-11-23 12:03||   2025-11-23 12:03|| Front Page Top

5 #4 She had a TDS bumper sticker, so an eagle was deployed
Posted by Regular joe 2025-11-23 13:43||   2025-11-23 13:43|| Front Page Top

6 It was a British drone that had not yet been calibrated for the US theater of operation.
Posted by Besoeker 2025-11-23 16:25||   2025-11-23 16:25|| Front Page Top

7 Poor kitty.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-11-23 18:07||   2025-11-23 18:07|| Front Page Top

8 It is a federal crime for anyone who is not a certifiable certified Native American to posses eagle feathers, even if you just pick them up off the ground or they fall into your lap.
Posted by SteveS 2025-11-23 19:09||   2025-11-23 19:09|| Front Page Top

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