America 1, Bad Luck 0

Earlier this week, walking distance from my home, this happened:

Bald Eagle Spotted Eating Black Cat on Downtown Norfolk Sidewalk

A bald eagle randomly alit onto a sidewalk on Monticello Avenue in Norfolk and made a public feast of a black cat.

Highlights from the Virginian-Pilot Article:

• Dozens of people crowded around as the eagle ate the cat on the sidewalk. 
• The eagle was more than two feet long from head to tail and stood around a foot and a half tall.
• The eagle’s meal looked like a fully grown black cat. 
• The eagle nearly picked it clean over the course of about 45 minutes.
• Stranger still: the bird seemed unperturbed by the onlookers. “It was going to enjoy its meal as long as nobody was bothering it.”

There's a reason our nation uses this bird as a symbol.  Bad-assed.

There's a video of it in the Pilot article for the gross people among our readers.

A few years back, this happened in my back yard.

That's what we believed to be a Cooper's hawk devouring a squirrel on our deck.  As you can imagine, given my long friendship with the gheorghie sometimes known as "The Squirrel," that was very upsetting.  So I videoed it.

This time, however, I am exulting in what I take to mean a symbol of the USA beating back bad luck.  By eating it.  AMERICA!!

Unless this is supposed to be a harbinger of unpleasant results from this week's Monday Night Football game.  In which case . . . yeah, that's about right.