Posted on 10/10/2016 7:55:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
In the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew's path through Florida, it may have been the oddest call to 911 operators: a bald eagle had gotten stuck in the grille of a car.
A posting on the Clay County Sheriff's Office Facebook page Saturday reported the odd emergency request from a driver in the area near Jacksonville.
Pictures showed the national bird of the United States stuck in the precarious position.
Clay County officials said the bird was pulled out and turned over to an organization in nearby Talbot Island, Florida, called B.E.A.K.S. -- Bird Emergency Aid and Kare Santuary.
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Boy does THAT sum things up!
CAPTION: abe lincoln gave me directions...
That’s a terrible headline; I thought the bird had passed. It was actually the hurricane that passed. The bird is fine.
Lucky Bird
Any grilling Bald Eagle recipes?
The Beautiful and noble creature, symbol of our freedom and strength, survived its encounter with the gas-burning, fossil-fuel guzzling, internal combustion, carbon footprint producing, CO2 spewing, global-warming automobile.
It would not be so lucky encountering a wind turbine (Eagle-Chopper).
Rightly so.
Could have been trapped in the eye of the hurricane
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