{"id":163148,"date":"2025-11-27T21:26:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T21:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/163148\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T21:26:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T21:26:15","slug":"bald-eagle-drops-cat-through-drivers-windshield-on-north-carolina-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/163148\/","title":{"rendered":"Bald eagle drops cat through driver&#8217;s windshield on North Carolina highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">SWAIN COUNTY, N.C.  (WTVD) &#8212; A driver in rural North Carolina was left in shock when a bald eagle dropped a cat onto her car&#8217;s windshield, leaving a massive hole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The woman was not injured but understandably shaken by the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to the North Carolina State Highway Patrol, the event occurred shortly after 8 a.m. on Wednesday, on US-74 in Swain County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;You may not believe me, but I just had a bald eagle drop a cat through my windshield. It absolutely shattered my windshield,&#8221; the woman told a 911 operator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;I do believe you, honestly,&#8221; the operator responded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;I had a witness who was like, &#8216;That is the craziest thing I&#8217;ve ever seen,&#8221; the caller said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The cat, unfortunately, did not survive the fall.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WTVD-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SWAIN COUNTY, N.C. (WTVD) &#8212; A driver in rural North Carolina was left in shock when a bald&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90992,61,60,82,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-163148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-90992","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}