Thursday 13 August 2009

Eagle smashes car windshield with fish

August 12, 2009

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MARBLEHEAD, Ohio - A woman in Ohio is telling a fish story about one that got away - from a bird, and damaged her car.

Authorities in northwest Ohio say the fish - a Lake Erie freshwater drum, known as a sheepshead - smashed a car windshield Tuesday when an eagle dropped its catch from a height of about 40 feet (12 metres), the Sandusky Register reported.

Leighann Niles says the impact felt like a brick hitting her Toyota's windshield. The woman from the Cleveland suburb of South Euclid was vacationing along the lake in Marblehead.

Niles says she had thought herself lucky to escape damage in another animal encounter shortly before the fishy one. She says a truck hit a small bird, which struck her back passenger door and startled her 5-year-old daughter.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2009/08/12/10438706-ap.html

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