{"id":393057,"date":"2025-11-20T20:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/393057\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T20:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:58:11","slug":"craziest-thing-ive-ever-seen-911-call-released-after-eagle-drops-cat-through-windshield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/393057\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Craziest thing I&#8217;ve ever seen&#8217; 911 call released after eagle drops cat through windshield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SWAIN COUNTY, N.C. (WLOS) \u2014 Authorities have released a 911 call related to an incident involving a bald eagle dropping a cat through a car&#8217;s windshield Wednesday morning. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Okay, you may not believe me, but I just had a bald eagle drop a cat through my windshield,&#8221; the 911 caller said. &#8220;It absolutely shattered my windshield.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the North Carolina State Highway Patrol, the bizarre event occurred shortly after 8 a.m. Wednesday on US-74 in Swain County.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do believe you, honestly,&#8221; the operator responded.<\/p>\n<p>&#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><strong>Previous coverage: <a href=\"https:\/\/wlos.com\/news\/local\/bald-eagle-north-carolina-state-highway-patrol-us-74-cat-windshield-animal-driver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BALD EAGLE DROPS CAT THROUGH WINDSHIELD IN NORTH CAROLINA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The operator confirmed the caller&#8217;s location and said Highway Patrol would be notified and dispatched to the scene to complete a report of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if the cat that fell through the windshield was alive, the caller said it was deceased and &#8220;on the side of the road.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Highway Patrol officials later confirmed that the driver of the vehicle was not injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SWAIN COUNTY, N.C. (WLOS) \u2014 Authorities have released a 911 call related to an incident involving a bald&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":393058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-393057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}